Sailing vessel barque Fiume E.
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Sailing vessel barque Fiume E.
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The Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral Rijeka keeps a painting of the Barque Fiume E. by an unknown author from 1881, oil on canvas, PPMHP 100416, 90 x 61 cm. The painting features the inscription Barque Austriaco Fiume E. Captain Josip Blečić. According to the Annuario marittimo for 1889, the barque was built in 1881 in Rijeka and had 710 registered tons. The ship is shown sailing in the undulating sea, which is in gray tones, as opposed to the gray-red color on the side of the sailing ship. The ship has three masts. All sails are unfurled. There is a spanker on the after mast and an Austro-Hungarian flag at the stern. There are smaller staysails between the main and after masts. At the top of the main mast there is a flag with the name Fiume E. Jibstays are located on the bowsprit.
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The barque Fiume E. is one of the most famous ocean-going sailing ships in Rijeka. The shipowners were well-known Rijeka families – Klešković, Korošac, Dešković, Jeletić, Grbac, Letiš, Luppis, Minak, Mohović, Škalamera, Valčić and Verzenassi, and the ship coowner community was represented in front of third parties by the Master Ignac Bonetić, a prominent Rijeka maritime businessman, a populist, member of the Croatian Reading Room in Rijeka and patron of the school and reading room in his native Draga. The construction and economic use of the ship Fiume E. was perhaps an attempt to create a stronger shipowner community of Rijeka, as indicated by a large number of its co-owners (23), which was not common at the time. Most of these co-owners already had shares in other Rijeka sailing ships. The barque Fiume E. was launched on 6 July 1881 in Rijeka on Mlaka (Ponsal) at the Schiavon brothers' shipyard. This was the penultimate launch of an ocean-going sailing ship from the Rijeka slipways. The last one, Capricorno, was launched in 1883. The ship was one of the largest sailing ships of that time, 45.50 m long, 9.52 m wide and 6.22 m high. The tonnage of the ship was 710 nrt. Ten years later, in February 1892, during a longer stay in Rijeka, she was measured at 716.54 grt and 641.22 nrt. She was riveted with iron and copper. The ship's call sign (the so-called nominative) was JGCF. She was entered in the new ship register on 28 August 1881, under the register number 2164. The ship had twelve crew members without a master. At the time when Rijeka shipbuilding experienced a standstill, several ships were launched from the shipyard slipways in Rijeka and Pećine into the sea, which navigated the world seas for a long time. These were the well-known sailing ships Metta, Capricorno and Fiume E. These sailing ships were the embodiment of the shipbuilding achievement of Rijeka at that time. In the eighteen years that she sailed as a ship from Rijeka, the barque Fiume E. was run by eight masters, all well-known and excellent sailors from Mošćenice, Lovran, Bakar, Draga and Kostrena, Sv. Lucija. The ship's masters were: Josip Valčić from Mošćenice (1881, 1882), Josip Blečić from Lovran (master for 10 years), Fr. Gabrijel Medanić from Bakar (1886), Romuald Paravić from Draga (1892), Vidossich Antonio di Serafino, Moschienizze (1894 to 1897) then Vinko Perović from Kostrena, Sv. Lucija and the last master of the ship until her sale in 1899, Bernardo Stipanović from Draga. Its first master was the captain Josip Valčić from Mošćenice, with many years of experience in running ships. Josip Valčić was the master of the barque Fiume E. in 1881 and 1882. When he stopped sailing and settled in Lovran, Rijeka's "Mutua" and "Veritas" often invited him to discuss maritime accidents and averages. He died in January 1922 in Lovran at the age of 90. The second master was the captain Josip Blečić from Lovran, a great patriot who, retreating to Trsat, with his knowledge and storytelling was a great help to the writer Viktor Car Emin in the literary treatment of the seafarers life and he also served as a character for his stories "Gajetunski razgovori", published in youth media. Captain Blečić was the master of the barque Fiume E. for ten years, after which he sailed for a long time on the steamships Betty, Korana and Plitvice. For a short time in 1886 he was replaced by Captain Fr. Gabrijel Medanić from Bakar, and in 1892 Captain Romuald Paravić from Draga, to whom this was the first commanding post. After him, the ship was run by the Captain Anton Vidošić from Mošćenice. Captain Vidossich ran the ship from 1894 to 1897. Then the ship was taken over by the Captain Vinko Perović from Kostrena, Sv. Lucija, and the last master of the ship until her sale, on 30 September 1899, was the co-owner himself, Captain Bernardo Stipanović, an old sea dog who had sailed for almost twenty years as a master on the sailing ships Reno, Veli zid and Adele. On 5 November, while the ship was in the Kattegat, two sailors from our region, Frane Bradičić and Josip Barković, quarrelled fiercely while mending the sails. As the investigation found, it began with an innocent debate about whether to vaccinate children and ended with the use of awls with which sailors repaired the sails. Barković died of a wound to the abdomen after a few hours, and Bradičić was bound and handed over to the consulate in Marseille, from where he was deported to Rijeka.
