Brick Romana\u27s destiny

Razotkrivanjem sudbine brika Romana u radu se nastoji ukazati na sudbine sličnih jedrenjaka koji su plovili svjetskim morima sredinom 19. stoljeća te rasvijetliti dio pomorske prošlosti grada na Rječini. Pritom se koristila metoda studija slučaja, deskriptivna metoda, metoda analize i sinteze, komparativna metoda i statistička metoda. Posebna je pozornost posvećena zavjetnoj slici i novinskom članku - povijesnim izvorima koji bacaju svjetlo na ovu problematiku sa svim svojim mogućnostima i ograničenjima. Utvrđeno je da novinski članak utemeljen na pouzdanom izvoru može donijeti obilje različitih informacija o plovidbenoj ruti, vrsti tereta, načinu i uvjetima ukrcavanja, konzularnoj službi te uzrocima i detaljima nesreće. No, dok se vijesti iz novina svojim sadržajem mogu bitno razlikovati i u kvantitativnom i u kvalitativnom pogledu, zavjetne su slike 19. stoljeća, zbog svoje standardizirane forme, u informacijama koje donose bitno ujednačenije. One uz detalje o nesreći (kada, gdje, zašto) redovito svjedoče i o izgledu broda, načinu plovidbe, pripadnosti, kapetanu, jeziku, običaju zavjetovanja i zavjetnog darivanja te izgledu zavjetne slike - ex vota.By revealing the destiny of brick Romana the author is trying to point out the destinies of similar sailing vessels that navigated the seas in the middle of 19th century. The intention of this paper is also to throw some light on naval history of the town of Rijeka in the same period. To do so the case study method, descriptive, comparative, statistical and methods of analysis and synthesis were used. Special attention was dedicated to the votive painting and newspaper article – fonts of historical knowledge with all their possibilities and limitations. It was established that newspaper article based on reliable source can contain many different information about things such as route, cargo, cargo management, consular service, causes and details of accident. But, while the newspaper information can considerably differ in quantitative and qualitative way, information from 19th century votive paintings are far more homogenous because of their standardized structure. They, besides accident details (when, where, how), are always the evidence of the ship’s origin and appearance, captain, bad weather navigation, language, as well as the votive practice and the appearance of ex voto