Sailing vessel barque Lada
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Sailing vessel barque Lada
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Annuario Marittimo, Fiume, 1871.-1889. DAR, Upisnik brodova duge plovidbe, II, 1880-1914. DAR, Registro de Patentazione dei Bastimentis Ungharese, br. 214, JU 9, Nikša Mendeš, Stari jedrenjaci, PPMHP, Rijeka 2004., Barbalić Radojica-Marendić Ivo, Onput kad smo partili, Matica hrvatska, Rijeka, 2004.
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The ship was built in Rijeka and entered in the register of ships on 20 July 1871. At launch she had 715 rt, and according to the measurements a year later 581 rt, while in 1883 she had 544 rt. She was 44.80 m long, 8.76 m wide and 5.76 m high. She sailed with ten to fifteen crew members. The ship already showed good navigational properties on her first voyages. Heraid to other ships in distress was well known. At the end of 1887 she was again in the Atlantic, then she sailed for South Africa where she was struck by a tragic fate in the bay of the South African Port Elisabeth, in a bay that generations of sailors still know today as a ship cemetery, a sailing ship cemetery. There,on 28 August 1888, a strong hurricane from the south struck with all its might on the ships that were doing business in front of the city at anchor in the Gulf of Alcoa. It lasted for two whole days, and in a strong rush it sank or tossed seven ships to the shore. Fortunately, there were not many human casualties. In the chronicle of maritime accidents, it is recorded that even on30 August, the sailors of the sunken ships still clung to the shrouds and spars and waited for help from the shore. The names of the sunken ships were also recorded: English barque Dorothea, Elisabeth Stevens with 290 tons of grain, Natal with 200 tons of various cargo, Wolselley with 350 tons of various cargo, James Harvey, Drey Emma with 500 tons of coal, and among them was the barque Lada with 1,300 bales of cotton. When the maritime world calmed down a bit after that tragedy, in mid-October 1888 the last sad news arrived in the homeland: the ship's master, Captain Gabriel Franjo Medanić, after being rescued from the shrouds a few days after the shipwreck, developed a high fever and succumbed to the illness at the hospital on 11 October. The crew members of the wrecked ship, along with the captain Captain Medanić, were the officer Andre Medanić from Kostrena, Sv. Barbara, cook Martin Augustin from Rotterdam, guard Vinko Martinčić from Sv. Frančiška near Lovran, helmsmen August Nesman from Wasse (Finland), Martin Kozulić from Mali Lošinj, Victor Hansen from Wasse, sailors Joseph Evenzo, Aleksandar Wilson and Gustav Grendle (no complete information about their residence) and deck hand Milan Medanić Anselmov from Mošćenice. After the clerk deleted the ship with sharp strokes in the register of ocean-going ships accompanied by the stereotypical sentence: "Naufragato a Porth Elisabeth 30 Agosto 1888." - the archives of the Rijeka Maritime Administration piled files about the barque Lada and her crewfor many years: protest, the act of abandonment and claims by the Austro-Hungarian consulate in Port Elisabeth from shipowners for accommodation, food and returning the shipwrecked to their homeland.
