Category:Fritz Reuter (ship, 1857)

English: Fritz Reuter was an iron-hulled sail-steamer, built in 1857 by Smith & Rodger at Middleton Yard, Govan, Glasgow as the steamship Crimean.. She was a sister ship of Danube. Ner first owner the Levant Screw Steam Shipping Co. of Liverpool, acquired by Bibby Line in 1859 and sold to Leyland Line in 1873.

In 1874 Robert Sloman of Hamburg bought the ship, had her converted to a three-masted full-rigged ship and renamed her Fritz Reuter. In 1891 she sailed with Master Langhinrichs from Cardiff to Pisagua, Chile, with a cargo of coal. At Cape Horn she met foul weather. She sighted the English four-masted barque Wamphray following her. It was a new ship on its first trip, also carrying Cardiff coal to Chile. Towards evening the wind rose and became a hurricane. The two ships parted. The next morning, Fritz Reuter's first mate sighted the English barque as she lay almost flat on her side and made a distress signal. On the Fritz Reuter back yards were immediately braced and a boat launched. It took four hours because it was finally to water. When the storm and heavy sea it was nevertheless a good performance. The first mate and four sailors jumped in the boat. In two trips to the five men were able to rescue 27 members of Wamphray's crew. The English captain, his second mate and five men had made it clear where the gig and reached so that the German full-rigged ship. Even as the tax man took the last teams, Wamphray sank. At 3 pm the rescue was completed and Fritz Reuter continued her journey to Chile.

In 1897 Fritz Reuter was sold to Norwegian owners. On her first voyage under her new owner she began to leak. Her crew abandoned her in the North Atlantic.^[1][2]