Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Suleyken"
Photos of the sailing ship:
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Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Rum-Regatta 2001,
05/2001
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Rum-Regatta 2001,
05/2001
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Rum-Regatta 2004,
05/2004
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Rum-Regatta 2009,
05/2009
Technical data of the sailing ship:
| Name: | Suleyken |
| Registered port: | Kappeln |
| Nation: | GER |
| Type of rigging: | KUTTER |
| Type of ship: | Spitzgatter |
| Year built: | 1921 |
| Yard: | Kalisch-Werft, Königsberg/Ostpreußen |
| Overall length: | 10.50 m |
| Length (hull): | 8.60 m |
| Breadth: | 2.56 m |
| Draught: | 1.30 m |
| Sail area: | 60 m2 |
| Ship's hull: | Holz / Wood |
| Power: | 25 PS |
| Engine: | Volvo MD 11C |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 05 Feb 2011
- built 1921 at the Kalisch shipyard in Königsberg/East Prussia, today Kaliningrad, RUS after drawings by the yacht designer Harry Wustrau.
- until the end of WWII 1945 used as private yacht sailing in the Baltic Sea, owner used the ship with his family to escape to Copenhagen, DK in January 1945.
- 1969 change of the owner, general overhaul, widely preservation of the interior with some minor extensions.
- 1972 change of the owner.
- 1979 change of the engine, fitted with a Volvo engine.
- 1981 renewal of the mast, the rigging was made of stainless steel.
- 1982 change of the owner.
- 1994 rigged as gaff cutter in Greifswald, GER; exchange of the engine (Volvo MD 11C).
- 2002 change of the owner.
- used as private sailing ship, regular participation in the Rumregatta in Flensburg, GER.
- 2010/11 maintenance of the hull at the shipyard of Stephan Ernst-Schneider in Grödersby, GER.
- Suleyken is the name of a village in Masury, Poland after a story by the German writer Siegfried Lenz.
Contact:
Website (deutsch, 05 Feb 2011):http://www.suleyken.de/
Suleyken: the history of the ship, many photos, contact address