page_title: Anna Karoline
section_title: Life of Anna Karoline
hierarchical_section_title: Anna Karoline / Life of Anna Karoline
caption_attribution_description: a Jekt with Stockfish from the 1870-1890s
context_page_description: Anna Karoline is a jekt often called Nordlandsjekt, built at Brataker in Mosvik, Norway in 1876.
  The jekt type was for centuries the most important freight vessel along the coast of Norway and Anna Karoline is typical for jekt vessels sailing between Northern Norway and Bergen. She was purchased by the museum Nordland County Museum in 1954 and placed ashore at Bodøsjøen south of the center of the city of Bodø. The Nordlandsmuseum has plans for constructing a large building around Anna Karoline, to preserve the vessel and exhibit her as a museum ship.
context_section_description: Anna Karoline was built in 1876 for Arnt O. Eggen, Oluf Nøst and Ole Vandsvik. The name Anna Karoline were composed from the names of the three first owners.
  Anna Karoline served as a cargo vessel and the cargo changed depending on what owners she had, time of the year and where she was stationed. When Ole Vandsvik was one of the owners Anna Karoline started the new year with a voyage to Lofoten to buy fish. The fish was salted on board the vessel and she returned in May to Kiran in Roan where the fish was dried. While the fish was drying the jekt was transporting timber from Namsen to Northern Norway. When the fish had dried the vessel was loaded with stockfish, and sailed to Bergen. The vessel was also used for transporting herring and as sleeping quarters during fishing.
  Anna Karoline is marked by various repairs and changes which makes it possible to study how the vessel has developed. She was originally clinker built and without a deck covering her cargo hold. In 1890 Anna Karoline ran aground at Kirangrunnen and subsequently towed  to Trondheim where the outer hull was plained and a smooth carvel skin was added. Thus one can today see  that the vessel has both clinker hull and carvel hull. Anna Karoline got new owners in 1903, they installed a 16 hp engine.
  After Johan Bjørvik and Ole Schiefloe bought Anna Karoline she was used during the yearly fisheries in Lofoten. She sailed north in January and had for many years station at Tinn in Lofoten. The firm sold various goods and fishing equipment. While she was used as a floating general store during the fisheries, the vessel was also used for processing fish. In the spring the vessel sailed south to Bergen or Trondheim, before returning to Lofoten for a new cargo of fish.
  In 1908 Anna Karoline´s homeport was changed to Namsos after she was bought by Julius Pedersen and manager Schiefloe. She was mainly used to ship timber from Trøndelag to Northern Norway. The vessel had the same trade while she was owned by Spillum Dampsag & Høvleri.
  After a new grounding in Bodø in 1908 she was again repaired. and the vessel now got a deck over the cargo hold. In 1916 she got a 30 hp engine. Anna Karoline kept her full rig until 1932, when it was removed. The same year major repairs of her hull were carried out. The vessel got a new transom and the deck was changed both aft and at the bow. In the 1950s the hull over water was changed. When she was bought by Nordland fylkesmuseum in 1954 brackets were placed under the vessel and needed repairs were done.
  Anna Karoline was bought in 1929 by the firm J. Angell & Sønner in Hopen in Lofoten. The vessel was used both summer and winter. During the vinter Anna Karoline was used while fish were salted and for producing Cod liver oil, she had similar duties in Finnmark in the spring. During summer Anna Karoline transported guano and stockfish from Nordland and Troms south to Bergen.
caption: A jekt with stockfish in Sandviken i Bergen. Photography taken some time between 1870 and 1890
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