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suitable for coal-timber cargoes and so forth and certainly paid off well by<br />
carrying timber from Sweden and Finland as it was able to load 750 – 780<br />
standards. The steamship “Tristan” went missing in February 1943 on the voyage<br />
from Danzig to Reval and we never received any message from her at all.<br />
In April 1942 we were also assigned another steamship, the<br />
Latvian “Everonika”. This ship, which we rechristened “Irma”, was managed<br />
by us for the Reich Commissioner for sea transport. It was a ship of 3,757 GRT<br />
with a total cargo capacity of around 6,100 t. On 14th March 1944, she ran<br />
aground on the Norwegian coastline and sank.<br />
During the course of the war, we were also given ownership of<br />
the steamship “Rastenburg”, which lay in Bordeaux when it was transferred in<br />
December 1943 and subsequently made several voyages with ore from Bilbao<br />
to Bordeaux. The rates for these cargoes were extremely good so that every<br />
short voyage made a considerable profit. Unfortunately, only six or seven voyages<br />
could be made before the war ended. The ship was scuttled in Bordeaux<br />
by our navy on 25th August 1944.<br />
On 20th October 1944, we were given control of the Finnish<br />
steamship “Ursa” (2,982 GRT), which made several voyages for us. This<br />
ship was also scuttled by our Navy which, as a matter of fact, took place in<br />
Scenes of destruction in the Port of Hamburg, 1943.<br />
Chapter 1 – History of the H. <strong>Vogemann</strong> Company 1886 – 1946 43<br />
1940<br />
German operation<br />
“Weser Exercise” against<br />
Denmark and Norway.<br />
Attack in the west on The Netherlands,<br />
Belgium and France.<br />
Trade war against Great Britain with<br />
overseas forces and submarines.<br />
Battle of Britain with German<br />
bombing offensives on British cities.<br />
Lion Feuchtwanger: “Exile” (novel).<br />
1941<br />
German troops under<br />
General Rommel support the<br />
Italians in North Africa.<br />
Sinking of the battleship<br />
“Bismarck”.<br />
German attack on Russia<br />
(“Operation Barbarossa”).<br />
Atlantic Charter sets out<br />
the ideal goals of the<br />
Western Allies.<br />
Japanese attack on the US naval<br />
port of Pearl Harbor. Start of the<br />
war in the Pacific.
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