Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Gefion"
Photos of the sailing ship:
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Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Rum-Regatta 2016,
05/2016
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Rum-Regatta 2016,
05/2016
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Rum-Regatta 2022,
05/2022
Technical data of the sailing ship:
| Name: | Gefion |
| Ex-names: | H1317, L401 |
| Registered port: | Lemvig |
| Nation: | DK |
| Type of rigging: | KETSCH |
| Type of ship: | Isefjordsbåd |
| Year built: | 1910 |
| Yard: | Andersen, Frederikssund, DK |
| Length (hull): | 11.65 m |
| Breadth: | 4.61 m |
| Draught: | 1.63 m |
| Sail area: | 70 m2 |
| Ship's hull: | Holz / Wood |
| Power: | 150 PS |
| Engine: | Volvo Penta TMD 70 |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 28 Mar 2022
- built in 1910 at the Andersen brothers' shipyard in Frederikssund/DK; commissioning as a fishing vessel H1317 "Gefion" in Hundested/DK and used by a family of fishermen over 2 generations for fishing in the Kattegat, the Isefjord and the open Baltic Sea.
- used as a mail boat for the Danish island Hesselø for a time.
- in the 1st WW delivery of fish and vegetables from the northern region of Zealand to Copenhagen.
- change of ownership 1960-1972 and 1980 with home port of Hundested, from here frequent fishing in the North Sea.
- 1982 registration in Lemvig/DK as L401 "Gefion".
- end of 2013 decommissioning as a fishing vessel, conversions to a sailing ship and for leisure use.
- member of Lemvig Træskibslaug and of Træskibs Sammenslutningen.