Stanley (boat) explained

Stanley was an Icelandic fishing boat. Originally a six oar rowboat (Icelandic: Sexæringur), it was the first boat in Iceland to be equipped with an engine. Its successful mechanization is considered the start of the industrial revolution of the fishing industry in Iceland.[1] [2] [3] [4]

History

Guðmundur Guðmundsson, a farmer in Eyri in Mjóifjörður, originally had the boat built for himself. The shipbuilder was Þórir Pálsson (1797–1886) and the boat was probably built before or around 1860. Around 1885 the boat went by the name Skálin and Guðmundur had a cabin in Bolungarvík which was called Skálarbúð. The naming was said to have come from the fact that Guðmundur treated boat as if it were a glass bowl (Icelandic: Skál) or porcelain. Þórir tested all the wood that was to be used in the boat by chopping a bit of it and put in water, and only using it if it floated well.

Árni Gíslason bought Skálin in 1890 from Guðmundur's son-in-law, Ebenezer Ebenezarson. After buying it, Árni renamed the ship Stanley. In 1902, Árni along with trader Sophus J. Nielsen, equipped the boat with a 2 hp engine from the Danish engine maker C.H. Möllerups.[5] The boat was first launched from Ísafjörður with the engine on 25 November 1902.[6] Despite initial doubts by many, the boats mechanization was a great success and soon much of the fishing fleet was mechanized. The boat's fishing went well until it ran aground in Borgarbót in Skötufjörður in 1908 and broke up. The boat was at that time owned by Bjarni Sigurðsson, a farmer in Borg.[7] [8]

Notes and References

  1. News: Helgi Mar Árnason . Árarnar lagðar til hliðar . 24 February 2022 . . 24 November 2002 . B2 . Icelandic.
  2. News: Fimmtíu ára afmæli vélbátaútvegs á Íslandi . 24 February 2022 . Jólablaðið . 20 December 1952 . 7–9 . Icelandic.
  3. News: Makkafeiti í stað koppafeiti . 24 February 2022 . Sjómannadagsblaðið . 1 June 1994 . 51–53 . Icelandic.
  4. News: Sexæringurinn Stanley var fyrsti íslenski vélbáturinn . 24 February 2022 . Bæjarins besta . 27 November 2002 . 1, 8 . Icelandic.
  5. News: Sextíu ár á morgun frá upphafi vélbátaaldar á Íslandi . 24 February 2022 . . 24 November 1962 . 4, 10 . Icelandic.
  6. Book: Karlsson . Gunnar . Iceland's 1100 Years: History of a Marginal Society . 2000 . Oxford University Press . 9781849049115 . 51 . 23 February 2022.
  7. News: Ólafur Hannibalsson . Aðeins af Stanley. Úr ræðu fluttri á Sólarkaffi Ísfirðinga 2003 . 24 February 2022 . Bæjarins besta . https://web.archive.org/web/20140407071146/http://www.bb.is/Pages/106?NewsID=18068 . 2003 . 7 April 2014 . Icelandic.
  8. News: Fyrsti íslenzki vélknúni fiskibáturinn . 24 February 2022 . Vesturland . 3 June 1939 . 1–2 . Icelandic.

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