Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Albatros"
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Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Greifswald,
06/2017
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Greifswald,
06/2017
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Greifswald,
06/2017
Technical data of the sailing ship:
| Name: | Albatros |
| Ex-names: | Erna, Möwe |
| Registered port: | Hamburg |
| Base port: | Greifswald |
| Nation: | GER |
| Type of rigging: | KETSCH |
| Year built: | 1913 |
| Yard: | Van Diepen, Waterhuizen, NL |
| Overall length: | 28.30 m |
| Breadth: | 5.05 m |
| Draught: | 1.85 m |
| Sail area: | 250 m2 |
| Ship's hull: | Stahl / Steel |
| Engine: | 4 Zyl. Glühschalenmotor |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 04 Apr 2022
- built in 1913 at the Van Diepen brothers shipyard in Waterhuizen/NL; registration as "Erna" in Nieder Ochtenhausen/GER.
- used from 1922 to 1970 in Hamburg/GER as a freight motor sailing ship, installation of a 36 hp HMG 2-cyl. hot bulb engine.
- 1938 installation of a more powerful 4 cyl. Schlueter pre-chamber diesel.
- 1950 and 1960 multiple extensions to increase the loading volume, last hull length 42 meters and use in the inland shipping.
- from 1970 to 1975 registered in Hamburg under the name "Möwe".
- 1975 decommissioned.
- 1979 dismantling according to old documents to original shipyard dimensions, rigged as a gaff ketch, renaming to "Albatros" with registration in Hamburg.
- from 1999 use as a traditional ship in the museum harbor in Greifswald/GER by a maritime circle of friends.