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A Disaster at Sea in 1858 Inge Sjögren Swedish American Genealogist Volume 33 | Number 4 Article 2 12-1-2013 A disaster at sea in 1858 Inge Sjögren Elisabeth Thorsell Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/swensonsag Part of the Genealogy Commons, and the Scandinavian Studies Commons Recommended Citation Sjögren, Inge and Thorsell, Elisabeth (2013) "A disaster at sea in 1858," Swedish American Genealogist: Vol. 33 : No. 4 , Article 2. Available at: https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/swensonsag/vol33/iss4/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Augustana Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Swedish American Genealogist by an authorized editor of Augustana Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A disaster at sea in 1858 This fearful accident has been forgotten, but has now been found again in a family history BY INGE SJOGREN TRANSLATION: ELISABETH THORSELL S/S Austria was a steamship of the After a cancelled British govern- tember, a decision was made to Hamburg America Line which sank ment charter, she went into service fumigate steerage by dipping a red- on 13 September 1858, in one of the with the Hamburg America Line on hot chain into a bucket of tar; the worst transatlantic maritime disas- 1 May 1858 on the Hamburg-New chain became too hot for the boat- ters of the nineteenth century, claim- York route. swain to hold, and it was dropped ing the lives of 449 passengers and On 1 September 1858, S/S Aust- onto the deck, which immediately crew. ria captained by F. A. Heydtmann burst into flames; although the ship The Austria was built by Caird sailed from Hamburg on her third was traveling at only half speed it & Co. of Greenock, Scotland, and was voyage to New York City. There were was impossible to stop the engines launched on 23 June 1857. She was 60 passengers in 1st class, 120 in 2nd as the engine crew had become 318 ft and 2,684 BRT, with three class, and 450 in steerage, and a crew asphyxiated. masts and single screw propeller of 80. When the helmsman abandoned propulsion. At approximately noon, on 13 Sep- the wheel, the ship swung into the The Austria was engulfed in flames almost immediately. Swedish American Genealogist 2013:4 wind, spreading the flames down the length of the ship, racing through the mahogany veneer and varnished bulkheads, as passengers jumped in- to the sea. The passing barque, Maurice of France, rescued most of the sur- vivors, and the Catarina of Norway picked up more the next morning. As the blackened hulk was left to sink, all but 65 of 538 passengers were lost. The Swedish connection As the Austria started out from Ham- burg in Germany it might not have been supposed to have had any Charles Rosene (Rosen) and his son in the Hamburg passenger lists (Ancestry.com. Swedes on board, but so was not the Hamburg passenger lists, Direkt Band 012, 1858 Mar-Nov, page 279). case. Family historian Inge Sjogren of at age 26 to America. In America he Hamburg and took the steamer Kalmar, Sweden, was tracing his settled in Richmond, VA, and became Austria on the 1st inst. Charles great-great-grandfather (farmor's a well-known music teacher there. He mentions the name of a Mr. Ling- morfar) Theodor Rosen's family in married Eliza Frances Tower, born stein, of California, who was a pas- Kalmar, when he found that Theodor 1816 in Massachusetts, and they had senger in the second cabin. On the had had a brother who went to Amer- three children, Charles Folke (Falk) day of the burning he was sitting ica. This brother was Carl Folke Ro- (b. 1843), August W, (b. 1847), and abaft the engine with his father. He sen, born 1812 Sep. 12 in Kalmar Theodore Oscar (b. 1850). first saw the fire coming up through S tads forsamling, son of the merchant In 1858 Carl (who was by then the ventilators, from which the wind- Folke Rosen and his wife Anna Chris- Americanized to Charles) decided to sails had been taken only a short tina Swarss. go home to Sweden and visit his old time before. Instantly as the passen- In 1830 Sep. 27 Carl Folke left for father, who was then 80 years old. His gers saw the flames they all began Karlskrona, where he supposedly mother had died in 1850. Charles was to cry, "Fire!" "The ship is on fire" and accompanied by his son Charles F, ran about the ship in the wildest con- continued his education.2 According to a Rosen Family Tree on Ancest- who was then 15 years old. fusion. He says: "My father and I ran ry.com, he immigrated in about 1838, It is not known when they came to forward to escape the fire and were Sweden, possibly in the early sum- followed by the other passengers. I mer, and spent the time with their saw the fire pouring out through the relatives. And then they started the sky-lights. In ten or fifteen minutes return to the U.S. more the cry ran fore and aft, "To the On 1858 Sept. 1 they left the port boats !" All hands then crowded into of Hamburg on the S/S Austria for the boats, which had been hanging New York, in the company of hun- inboard, but were now swung out by dreds of other travellers. On Sept. 4 the davits. The first mate mounted the ship picked up more passengers the rail near the forward boat on the in Southampton, England.3 port side, in which they were sitting What happened next will be told with a large crowd of other passen- by Charles Rosene, Jr. gers. He ordered all of us to get out of the boat, so that it could be lower- Statement of Charles F. ed. But as fast as one set got out others rushed into their places, and V, Rosene we also went back to our first seat. Newark Daily Advertiser4 The first mate then took a sailor's Charles F. V. Rosene, Jr., of Richmond, knife and cut the tackle, and the boat Va., aged 15 years, was a passenger fell into the water. Falling some on board the Austria with his father, twenty-five feet the boat filled and A daguerreotype of Charles Rosene, wife who had been on a visit to his aged sunk, and all the people were was- Eliza, sons Charles and August, maybe parent in Sweden. They left New York hed out. I came up under the bottom in 1849, and sent to the Swedish family. in June by the Ariel, for Bremen. of the boat, but I found my way out (Inge Sjogren collection). After their visit they returned to and clambered into the boat. Swedish American Genealogist 2013:4 There were five or six oars lashed cutting the buoy in two. This made personal safety. The fire was at first together, and they floated out. My fa- two good bailers. The mate then 'told so small that it might have been ther came up within reach of these, us if we wished to he saved, we must covered with a man's hat, but for and seized hold of them with five or now all get overboard except the some reason it suddenly spread six others. He saw me in the boat, and young woman and let two persons re- throughout the lower part of the ship, called out to me, "Oh, my boy, we are main in and bail out the boat. We which was instantly filled with dense, all lost!" In a short time one end of obeyed the order, and all got over- suffocating smoke. the oar drifted near the boat and I board. In a few minutes the boat was Many were unable to leave their caught hold of it, to haul him in. I freed of water, and we all got in, rooms at all. One man was seen with also asked a passenger near to assist observing great caution, so as not to his head thrust through a port hole, me to save my father. We pulled to- overset her again. The mate then unable to get further, while the gether, but there were so many cling- took the steering oar, and with the sheets of fire ran bursting over all ing to the oars we could not move four others we soon pulled up to the parts of the ship, all around him. them. The gentleman said "It is no French bark Maurice. As the passen- The first, second, and third officers use, we cannot move them." He then gers stepped over the rail they all are said to have been saved; all the drifted along near us, still clinging embraced the captain, and all of them others perished. to the oars. In this way he held on shed tears of gratitude for their de- Several men were hauled up out for nearly four hours. liverance. The captain received us all of the second cabin and reported that I could not bear to look at him, and with great kindness. He rigged an many then were already smothered. we drifted in silence. There was noth- awning amidships, and laid a plat- Before the survivors left, they ing in the boat to throw to him. form for us to lay down upon, giving think, that all who were below deck During this time the boat rolled over us all the loose sails he could raise must have expired.
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