Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Delphin"
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Technical data of the sailing ship:
Name: | Delphin |
Ex-names: | Adler |
Registered port: | Hamburg |
Nation: | GER |
Type of rigging: | KUTTER |
Type of ship: | Ostfriesische Torfmutte |
Year built: | 1930 |
Yard: | Westrhauderfehn, GER |
Length: | 19.00 m |
Breadth: | 4.00 m |
Draught: | 0.90 m |
Sail area: | 120 m2 |
Ship's hull: | Stahl / Steel |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 02 May 2006
- built 1930 in Westrhauderfehn, GER; first name "Adler".
- frisian so-called Torfmutte, a cargo ship to transport peat and building materials through the channels of Friesland, at the Leda and Ems.
- she was sunk to protect her during the WW II, used as a cargo ship after the war again until the 1950s.
- 1961 saved from being scapped, reconstruction for private use and maintenance as museum ship in Hamburg Oevelgönne and later in the Finkenwärder Gaffel-Consortium Hamburg.