Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Weisse Düne"
Photos of the sailing ship:
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Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Wolgast,
08/2013
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Wolgast,
08/2013
Technical data of the sailing ship:
| Name: | Weisse Düne |
| Ex-names: | Neerlandia, Johann, Klara Katharina |
| Registered port: | Groningen |
| Base port: | Greifswald, Wolgast |
| Nation: | NL |
| Type of rigging: | TOPPSEGELSCHONER |
| Type of ship: | 2-Mast Schoneraak |
| Year built: | 1909 |
| Yard: | Meppel, NL |
| Overall length: | 46.00 m |
| Length (hull): | 37.64 m |
| Breadth: | 6.40 m |
| Draught: | 1.60 m |
| Sail area: | 435 m2 |
| Ship's hull: | Stahl / Steel |
| Power: | 280 PS |
| Engine: | 6-Zyl. Deutz 6M716 |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 25 Jul 2013
- launched 1909 in Meppel, NL; used as freighter under the name "Klara Katharina", until 1942 under sails.
- 1942 fitted with a diesel engine.
- sunk in a storm in the Dollart waters off Delfzijl, NL.
- after salvage the skipper became Karl Funk until 2000.
- lenghtening of the hull in 1964.
- 2000 rebuilding and conversion into a luxuary sailing ship for charter trips by Lex Tichelaar, Harlingen, NL; used in the charter business since 2001 with Leer, GER as baseport, sailing area were the Dutch mudflats until 2003.
- since April 2004 operated by the Usedomer Schifffahrts und Touristikgesellschaft based in Wolgast, GER.
- change of flag and homeport to Groningen, NL.
- since June 2011 owned and operated by Capt. Jane Bothe and her family, sails in the waters of Western Pommerania.
Last tracked position of the ship:
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Contact:
Website (deutsch, 02 Jan 2022):http://www.weisse-duene.com/
Weisse Düne: charter information, photos and history