page_title: Jacob Holm (industrialist)
section_title: Shipping
hierarchical_section_title: Jacob Holm (industrialist) / Shipping
caption_attribution_description: English: The barque Jacob of Copenhagen was built in 1839 by industrialist Jacob Holm on his own wharf. The oil painting was probably done on speculation and was never sold. Size 43 x 58 cm. Privately owned. Source: Hanne Poulsen, Danske Skibsportrætmalere, page 91 &amp; 108.
context_page_description: Jacob Holm was a Danish industrialist, ship owner and merchant. He founded the company Jacob Holm & Sønner which still exists today.
context_section_description: Already in 1798 Holm had bought his first ship, Najaden. The years after the turn of the century were hard on the shipping industry with the British bombardments of Copenhagen in 1801 and 1807 but his company survived.
  He owned more than a hundred ships during the period from 1807 until his death in 1845 and for a while his shipping business was the largest in the country. In 1840, his fleet consisted of five barques, nine brigs, two schooners and two koffs. His ships brought blubber back from Greenland, which was processed in his factories, and also sailed to Danish India and the Danish West Indies.
  His ships Concordia and Neptun were the first Danish ships to sail around the world, completing three such voyages between 1839 and 1845. Concordia was the first Danish whaling expedition to the Southern Ocean.
caption: Hacob of Copenhagen, one of Jacob Holm & Søn's ships
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