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Official Number
98968 |
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Official Number
98968 |
The Vortigern was built at Workington in 1891 by R.Williamson & Son. She was a steel four-masted barque, the third of six Workington four-masted barques known as the "Six Sisters" (the others were Andelana,Eusemere, Pendragon Castle, Caradoc and Conishead). She carried royals over single topgallant sails.
In May 1900 the Vortigern was sold to B. Wencke & Söhne of Hamburg, and renamed the Hebe. She traded to Chile and Peru in the nitrate trade. In the South Atlantic on the 12th April 1901, whilst bound for Valparaiso with a coal cargo, the Hebe rescued the crew of the French five-masted barque France, which had flooded and partly capsized after its cargo had shifted. The Hebe arrived at Valparaiso on the 9th June.
In January 1906 after Friedrich Wencke's death all the vessels in the Wencke fleet came under the control of the Rhederei-Aktien-Gesellschaft von 1896, of Hamburg. The Hebe was dismasted in a storm west of the English Channel on the 22nd February 1906. The Danish steamship Niobe was able to get a towline aboard, and successfully brought the barque to Plymouth.
The Hebe arrived at Mollendo, Peru, on the 6th August 1914 with
a cargo of coal, and was forced to remain there for the duration of World
War 1.As a German vessel, the Hebe was siezed by the Allies and
in 1918 she was transferred into the ownership of the Peruvian Government.
By 1922 the vessel was being used by them as schoolship in Callao,
and had been renamed Contramaestre Duenas. The barque was
sent to the breaker's yard in 1929.
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