Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Fortuna"
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Technical data of the sailing ship:
Name: | Fortuna |
Registered port: | Aarhus |
Nation: | DK |
Type of rigging: | KETSCH |
Type of ship: | Spreizgaffelketsch |
Year built: | 1928 |
Yard: | Schierhorn, Hohenfelde-Niederelbe, GER |
Overall length: | 17.00 m |
Length (hull): | 12.50 m |
Breadth: | 3.50 m |
Draught: | 1.70 m |
Sail area: | 90 m2 |
Ship's hull: | Holz / Wood |
Engine: | Mercedes OM 352 |
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Last update: 06 Jan 2013
- built 1928 at the shipyard Schierhorn in Neuenfelde, GER, as fishing cutter for catching crabs on the lower Elbe, low draught enabled to fall dry at low water without big heelings.
- in the 1950/60s registered in Danmark.
- restored at the shipyard Böbs in Travemünde, GER after change of the owner to the Hagen brothers (Bad Oldesloe, GER).
- since 1976 fitted with a wishbone rig as a ketch with a 5t ballast keel.
- 1998 taken over by the prof Conradi, Lübeck-Gothmund, GER.
- 2008 sold to the owner group Nils Bundgard-Löbber from TSA-Arhus, DK.