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Note: Name: Wilh Krenzke Arrival Date: 12 May 1856 Estimated birth year: abt 1808 Age: 48 Gender: Male Port of Departure: Bremen, Germany Destination: United States of America Place of Origin: Germany Ethnicity/Race/Nationality: German Ship Name: Orpheus Port of Arrival: New York Line: 38 Microfilm Serial: M237 Microfilm Roll: M237_161 List Number: 305 Port Arrival State: New York Port Arrival Country: United States
Friedrich Wilhelm Krenzke 48 abt 1808 Stellmachermeister Mohrin/Koenigsberg Nord-Amerika 1856 Johanna Krenzke, Geb. Krenzke 34 abt 1822 Frau von Friedrich Wilhem (48) Mohrin/Koenigsberg Nord-Amerika 1856
Carl Heinrich August Krenzke 21 abt 1835 Kind von Friedrich Wilhelm Mohrin/Koenigsberg Nord-Amerika 1856 Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Krenzke 20 abt 1836 Kind von Friedrich Wilhelm Mohrin/Koenigsberg Nord-Amerika 1856 Louise Christiane Krenzke 18 abt 1838 Kind von Friedrich Wilhelm Mohrin/Koenigsberg Nord-Amerika 1856 Wilhelmine Auguste Krenzke 17 abt 1839 Kind von Friedrich Wilhelm Mohrin/Koenigsberg Nord-Amerika 1856 Henriette Emilie Krenzke 15 abt 1841 Kind von Friedrich Wilhelm Mohrin/Koenigsberg Nord-Amerika 1856 Marie Dorothee Krenzke 12 abt 1844 Kind von Friedrich Wilhelm Mohrin/Koenigsberg Nord-Amerika 1856 Wilhelm Ferdinand Krenzke 8 abt 1848 Kind von Friedrich Wilhelm Mohrin/Koenigsberg Nord-Amerika 1856 Wilhelmine Karoline Krenzke 5 abt 1851 Kind von Friedrich Wilhelm Mohrin/Koenigsberg Nord-Amerika 1856 Johann Heinrich Krenzke 2 abt 1854 Kind von Friedrich Wilhelm Mohrin/Koenigsberg Nord-Amerika 1856 Anna Therese Krenzke 1 abt 1855 Kind von Friedrich Wilhelm Mohrin/Koenigsberg Nord-Amerika 1856
ORPHEUS (1854)
Oil painting by Oltmann Jaburg, 1854. Source: Peter-Michael Pawlik, Von der Weser in die Welt; Die Geschichte der Segelschiffe von Weser und Lesum und ihrer Bauwerften 1770 bis 1893, Schriften des Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseums, Bd. 33 (Hamburg: Kabel, c1993), p. 390. To request a larger copy of this scan, click on the picture.
The Bremen ship ORPHEUS was built at Burg (now Bremen-Burg) by J. H. Bosse, and launched on 4 April 1854. 261 Commerzlasten / 588 tons register; 42,5 x 9,5 x 5,2 meters (length x beam x depth of hold). Original owners: Konitzky & Thiermann, Bremen, operators (1/3); Georg C. Mecke & Co, Bremen (1/2); and the captain, Diedrich Schilling (1/6). She was employed in the emigration trade to North America, and was known as a fast vessel: in December 1854, the ORPHEUS sailed from New York to Bremerhaven in the hitherto unheard of time of 18 days 6 hours.
Schilling was succeeded as captain in 1857 by Johann Philipp Wessels, who in 1862 also acquired Schilling's 1/6 share in the vessel. In 1862, Ferdinand Wessels appears as master, although possibly only as a substitute, since Johann Philipp Wessels was again captain of the ORPHEUS in 1863.
In May 1865, the cargo of the ORPHEUS on its return voyage from New York to Bremerhaven included a dozen alligators, destined for the zoological gardens in Köln and Dresden. The next voyage of the ORPHEUS was a race, roundtrip from Bremerhaven to New York and back, with the Bremen bark GUTENBERG, Capt. Hinrich Raschen, the wager being 500 Thaler; the race was won by the GUTENBERG.
In the night of 17/18 November 1865, the ORPHEUS, bound from Hamburg to New York with emigrants, collided in the vicinity of North Sand Head (in the English Channel) with the British schooner MARIA, from Scarborough, which sank; although the captain of the schooner was able to save himself, his wife and the 3 members of the crew were drowned.
In 1868, the ORPHEUS was re-rigged as a bark. On 2 November of that year, Kautzner, master, she sailed from Baltimore for Amsterdam with a cargo of tobacco, but early in December was stranded near Texel. The cargo was removed in lighters, and the vessel refloated, and towed to Nieuwe Diep. Shortly afterwards, the ORPHEUS was sold to M. Peterson & Sön, Moss, Norway, and from this time on sailed under the Norwegian flag, although retaining her old name. Her new captain was M. Bruusgaard. On 15 October 1877, on a voyage from Husom to London with a cargo of wood, the ORPHEUS was abandoned by her crew on Dogger Bank. On 19 October, the abandoned vessel was spotted approximately 100 miles from Cuxhaven by the Hamburg steamer UHLENHORST, which towed her to that port, whence on 22 October she was taken in tow by the steamers GRAF MOLTKE, GERMANIA, and COWPEN to Hamburg.
Source: Peter-Michael Pawlik, Von der Weser in die Welt; Die Geschichte der Segelschiffe von Weser und Lesum und ihrer Bauwerften 1770 bis 1893, Schriften des Deutschen Schiffahrtsmuseums, Bd. 33 (Hamburg: Kabel, c1993), pp. 390-392, no. 91.
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