Åbo/Turku1 Aimo 1671-1792
The Finnish sailing ship "Aimo"
In a snow storm in the middle of December 1898 the Finnish sailing ship "Aimo" failed in a tacking maneuver and sailed straight into the archipelago outside Nämdö and stranded on the skerries "Vitkobbarna". With the two ship's boats, the whole crew got safely to the nearby island of Rågskär. Eighteen soaking wet men doing a surprise visit in the early evening at the crofter's cottage!
The ship could not be saved. It was sold and the wood was used for building houses. Later the left-overs of the ship was used as an artillery target by the Swedish navy. At Långholmen, an island close to Runmarö (North of Nämdö), tradition says that part of a peer and part of a barn came from the Aimo ship. This sample was taken from the barn. - The "Aimo" was built in Åbo and launched in 1866. If this stock is a part from "Aimo" - which we have good reasons to presume - some 70 rings of sapwood have been cut away as the outermost ring in this "slice" grew in 1792.
External link:
www.cybis.se/forfun/dendro See Various dated objects
Analysis
The analysis was done with a collection of 37 members, each representing a mean value curve (in .d12 or .wid format) from an area in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Estonia and Finland. The presumed Aimo sample was selected as the reference in CDendro and the command Test Towards reference was run from the collection.
The best matching results list like this:
T- Over
Corr Test lap Year
all... 0.31 3.51 121 302 based on 37 members
3EP281AV 0.50 6.24 121 1792 Estonia Est002 (EXTRATERR)
BratPIr 0.43 4.92 107 1792 Mälardalen (Bråthen), questionable segments removed
NKarelia 0.37 4.29 121 1690 North Karelia, Finland
se_005Go 0.35 4.10 121 1792 Gotland, Lunds univ. (EXTRATERR)
EXFin002 0.35 4.06 121 1769 Fin002 N.Finland (EXTRATERR)
gud14 0.49 4.00 54 2017 Gudbrandsdalen, Norway
SE006-La 0.34 3.98 121 1769 Lappland, Lund (EXTRATERR)
East Sve 0.34 3.91 121 1792 East Svealand Aneby+Askersu+Bettna+Sissham+Saltsjöba
NFinland 0.34 3.91 121 1769 Northern Finland
swed304S 0.33 3.88 121 1792 Tyresö, Sisshammar (SE Stockholm 5913 1821) Andreason PISY 1661-1910
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Year numbers occurring more than once:
1792 11
1769 3
1824 2
1913 2
1921 2
2010 2
With the presumed Aimo sample provisionally dated to 1792 the matching of each member to that year could be analysed. With then only the best eigth members selected, I got:
... with corr >= 0.30 and with overlap >= 107
Results sorted according to decreasing correlation coefficient values.
T- Over
Corr Test lap
all... 0.45 5.47 121 based on 8 members
3EP281AV 0.50 6.23 121 Estonia Est002 (EXTRATERR) (1516-1998)
BratPIr 0.43 4.91 107 Mälardalen (Bråthen), questionable segments removed (1153-1904)
se_005Go 0.35 4.10 121 Gotland, Lunds univ. (EXTRATERR) (1125-1987)
East Sve 0.34 3.90 121 East Svealand Aneby+Askersu+Bettna+Sissham+Saltsjöba (1662-2005)
swed304S 0.33 3.88 121 Tyresö, Sisshammar (SE Stockholm 5913 1821) Andreason PISY 1661-1910 (1661-1910)
SödraDal 0.32 3.63 121 SDalar 1 Södra Dalarna PISY (1362-2005)
DALARNA 0.30 3.49 121 Dalarna, Lunds universitet (EXTRATERR) (932-1888)
NMVKMEAS 0.30 3.44 120 Kaptensudden, unknown origin in Stockholm area (1672-1870)
I.e. the best T-value is 6.2 towards the reference from Estonia at year 1792. That is a quite certain dating of the outermost ring of the stock.
AIMO 1 Finnish sailing ship Aimo PISY AIMO 2 Scots pine 1671 1792 AIMO 3 Lars-Åke Larsson AIMO #### Stock by tradition said to come from the sailing ship Aimo, wrecked at Vitkobbarna near Bullero (East of Stockholm) 1898. AIMO #### Supplied by Lars Westerberg, Langholmen (Runmaro). AIMO #### AIMO #### Stock ur finska barken Aimo som förliste vid Vitkobbarna vid Bullerö 1898. AIMO #### Byggd på Åbo varv 1865-66 och sjösatt 1 sept 1866. AIMO #### Från början skonertskepp men omriggad till bark 1882. AIMO #### Se: Skärgårdsmuseets tidskrift Skärgård nr 19 Nov 1979, artikeln "Aimo" av Allan Gustafsson. AIMO #### Om förlisningen, se Maj-Britt Eriksson, Notvarp i Nämdö 1979 eller ovanstående nummer av tidskriften. AIMO #### Lär finnas två hus på Sandhamn som är byggt med virke från Aimo. AIMO #### Däcksplankorna lär ha varit av amerikansk pine. Aimo1A 1703 217 204 258 204 231 178 184 Aimo1A 1710 141 145 166 131 177 213 209 172 217 206 Aimo1A 1720 201 157 281 344 203 199 151 141 156 147 Aimo1A 1730 200 186 170 176 222 269 201 219 225 149 Aimo1A 1740 146 135 121 125 110 154 76 91 139 130 Aimo1A 1750 185 120 185 199 136 151 128 114 105 125 Aimo1A 1760 122 127 138 145 125 130 81 80 47 105 Aimo1A 1770 115 81 121 122 106 162 141 145 176 173 Aimo1A 1780 110 103 111 113 124 128 132 100 105 104 Aimo1A 1790 111 100 62 999 Aimo1B 1671 411 484 484 416 402 423 298 400 321 Aimo1B 1680 381 304 276 244 213 211 302 200 173 157 Aimo1B 1690 151 179 256 207 313 280 204 283 227 282 Aimo1B 1700 300 215 174 137 173 183 154 177 143 178 Aimo1B 1710 154 154 163 135 146 159 204 154 161 179 Aimo1B 1720 201 212 195 225 180 170 140 137 154 174 Aimo1B 1730 163 159 143 178 175 215 252 184 197 178 Aimo1B 1740 144 126 122 126 94 154 102 102 103 110 Aimo1B 1750 140 128 160 178 126 132 999 Aimo1C 1676 451 310 387 321 Aimo1C 1680 381 286 251 287 212 246 318 230 221 216 Aimo1C 1690 219 220 339 420 446 412 458 346 344 291 Aimo1C 1700 480 368 407 191 300 264 241 272 232 217 Aimo1C 1710 211 228 209 229 246 255 300 265 266 244 Aimo1C 1720 256 293 232 252 236 263 164 163 227 188 Aimo1C 1730 166 175 134 200 237 264 262 165 193 157 Aimo1C 1740 144 158 157 170 124 135 122 125 143 176 Aimo1C 1750 213 127 230 324 249 171 186 152 999 Aimo1D 1677 337 383 336 Aimo1D 1680 327 334 245 294 228 218 292 237 244 230 Aimo1D 1690 211 246 370 388 530 446 438 319 395 375 Aimo1D 1700 492 410 384 219 283 256 283 362 275 300 Aimo1D 1710 266 181 247 188 265 230 294 278 247 250 Aimo1D 1720 283 249 219 314 238 236 155 155 211 223 Aimo1D 1730 155 169 167 164 229 268 249 172 185 176 Aimo1D 1740 126 155 120 144 130 136 147 123 131 155 Aimo1D 1750 187 184 262 304 244 190 115 168 131 192 Aimo1D 1760 145 165 999 Aimo1E 1671 362 433 435 306 287 306 252 339 295 Aimo1E 1680 314 229 201 212 188 196 241 194 128 169 Aimo1E 1690 157 147 226 230 296 276 214 248 160 223 Aimo1E 1700 304 245 230 133 206 216 999 Aimo1F 1671 405 528 557 418 355 418 374 443 299 Aimo1F 1680 455 344 362 269 293 293 324 375 281 355 Aimo1F 1690 312 350 456 674 555 999