''Renown'' was a
barque
A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts having the fore- and mainmasts rigged square and only the mizzen (the aftmost mast) rigged fore and aft. Sometimes, the mizzen is only partly fore-and-aft rigged, b ...
used as a sailing
cargo ship built in 1842 by
R. & H. Green in Blackwall, London. She survived a cyclone at Calcutta in 1864, and was sold to
German
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owners in 1882. In 1887 or 1888 she foundered off
Den Helder on the Dutch coast.
The storm and sinking
In December 1887,
[http://friesscheepvaartmuseum.nl/beeld/fsm-col2-dat20020266 ] the ''Renown'' sank during a storm in the
North Sea
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off
Den Helder in the
Netherlands
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. The survivors climbed up the
mizzen-mast and were eventually rescued by a small
lifeboat
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that approached the sinking ship. The lifeboat,
captained by
Dorus Rijkers, approached ''Renown'', and Rijkers jumped out of the boat and climbed the mast. He and his crew helped the endangered men from the mast to the lifeboat, and brought them to dry land. Of the ship's total crew of 30, approximately five died in the shipwreck and the remainder were rescued between 9 and 11 December.
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Aftermath
The heroic rescue ended successfully, and Dorus Rijkers was later awarded with a gold medal for valour. All of the surviving crew members received a small stipend from the
court
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of
The Hague
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after it was decided that they earned it because ''Renown'' was in bad condition when she left the harbor at
Hamburg
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Germany
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, one week before the accident.
See also
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Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution
The Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution (Dutch: ''Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij'', abbreviated: ''KNRM'') is the voluntary organization in the Netherlands tasked with saving lives at sea. For that purpose, it maintains 45 lif ...
References
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Barques
Individual sailing vessels
1842 ships
Ships built by the Blackwall Yard
Merchant ships of Germany
Maritime incidents in December 1887
Shipwrecks in the North Sea
Sea rescue