Estabelecimento de Fundição e Estaleiros Ponta da Areia (English: Foundry Establishment and Shipyards Ponta da Areia) was one of the first shipbuilding industries in Brazil, having been founded by Charles Colman in 1844 and acquired in 1846 by Irineu Evangelista de Sousa, future Baron and Viscount of Mauá.[3]
 The Baron of Mauá inspecting the Ponta da Areia Shipyard in Niterói, 1857 lithography by Pieter Godfred Bertichen, National Library of Brazil | |
Native name | Estabelecimento de Fundição e Estaleiros Ponta d'Areia |
|---|---|
| Industry | Shipbuilding, Defence, |
| Founded | 1844[1] |
| Founder | Charles Collmann |
| Defunct | 1846 |
| Fate | Merged |
| Successor | Estaleiro Mauá |
| Headquarters | , |
| Products | Warships, Work boats, pipes, cannons, cranes |
| Services | Shipbuilding and services |
Number of employees | c.1000[2] |
History edit
After the opening of the ports in 1808, small private shipyards appeared in Brazil.[4] With the independence of Brazil, the naval sector gradually restructured itself to cope with the growing demand for means of locomotion of cargo and passengers by river and/or sea.
Until the mid-1840s, shipyards and small foundries dedicated to shipbuilding were concentrated around the Brazilian Navy arsenal and the Ponta da Areia, in Niterói. In mid 1844, the British Charles Colmann opens a small foundry on the Ponta da Areia in Niterói. The foundry goes from bad to worse, and on August 11, 1846, Colmann sells this small business to Irineu Evangelista de Sousa, who renames it Estabelecimento de Fundição e Estaleiros da Ponta d'Areia.
For the next 30 years the Ponta da Areia Shipyard produced 72 vessels for the most varied purposes such as cabotage, cargo transport, passengers, warships, and small vessels, with emphasis on the twelve vessels ordered by the Imperial Navy of Brazil between 1849 and 1869.[5]
Its facilities were integrated to Companhia Comércio e Navegação (CCN) in 1905, the year this company was founded, specializing in ship construction and repair. At the time, CCN was also one of the largest construction and repair companies in Latin America.[5]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Luciano Velasco. "Construção Naval no Brasil: Existem Perspectivas? (in Brazilian Portuguese)" (PDF). Revista Economia. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
- ^ Gilberto Maringoni (20 August 2011). "Perfil - Barão de Mauá (in Brazilian Portuguese)". Institute of Applied Economic Research. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
- ^ "South America.; The Great Coffee Product of Brazil-- New-York Losing the Trade-- Brazilian Emancipation-- Railway Loans and Amazonian Navigation Contracts-- General News". New York Times. 22 August 1871. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
- ^ Gomes, Laurentino (2007). 1808 : como uma rainha louca, um príncipe medroso e uma corte corrupta enganaram Napoleão e mudaram a história de Portugal e do Brasil. São Paulo: Editora Planeta do Brasil. ISBN 9788576653202. OCLC 180190498.
- ^ a b Alcides Gourlart Filho. "História Econômica da Construção Naval no Brasil: Formação de Aglomerado e Performance Inovativa (in Brazilian Portuguese)" (PDF). Federal University of Santa Catarina. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
External links edit
- Marchant, Anyda (1965). Viscount Mauá and the empire of Brazil: a biography of Irineu Evangelista de Sousa, 1813–1889. University of California Press.
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