Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Seute Deern"
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Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Sail Bremerhaven 2000,
09/2000
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Sail Bremerhaven 2000,
09/2000
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Lütte Sail Bremerhaven 2008,
08/2008
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Sail Bremerhaven 2015,
08/2015
Source, location, date:
Volker Gries,
Sail Bremerhaven 2015,
08/2015
Technical data of the sailing ship:
| Name: | Seute Deern |
| Ex-names: | Pieter Albert Koerts, Bandi, Elisabeth Bandi |
| Registered port: | Bremerhaven |
| Nation: | GER |
| Type of rigging: | BARK |
| Year built: | 1919 |
| Yard: | Gulfport Shipbuilding Co., Gulfport, USA |
| Overall length: | 75.50 m |
| Breadth: | 11.08 m |
| Draught: | 5.00 m |
| Sail area: | 1486 m2 |
| Ship's hull: | Holz / Wood |
| Engine: | keine/none |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 04 Jan 2022
- designed as the "Elisabeth Bandi" for the Marine Coal Company in New Orleans in 1919, this 4-masted gaff schooner used to make a good profit sailing along the American East coast to Brazil.
- the ship's owner changed several times between 1925 and 1931, after 1931 she mainly transported timber for a Finnish owner and under the name "Bandi" from Finland to England, another change of the owner in 1935.
- aquired by the shipowner Essberger from Hamburg, GER in 1938, converted and rigged as a bark at the Blohm & Voss shipyard, she was then used as a cargo training ship under the name the "Seute Deern".
- at the end of the war she was temporarily used by the English authorities in Lübeck, GER. She was towed to Travemünde in 1946, re-rigged and used as a hotel and restaurant ship in Hamburg from 1947 to 1954.
- bought by the American Koerts in 1954, who gave her to his hometown Delfzijl, NL as the "Pieter Albert Koerts", where she was used as a youth hostel, the need of repairs forced to put her for sale.
- 1964-66 German owner in Emden, GER under the name "Seute Deern", 1965 sold again and towed to Bremerhaven, GER given a general overhaul and moored as a restaurant ship in the old habour of Bremerhaven.
- since 1972 she has been a museum ship in the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven.
- in October 2001 towed into the docks of the Motorenwerke Bremerhaven for an overhaul, this action was supported by many donators.
- fire in the forepart of the ship in February 2019, some tentative repairs, but in August 2019 after break of all installed pumps she sank in the habour, the amount of damage led to the decision to scrap the ship, in the beginning of 2020 breakdown of the hull.
Literature for further reading:
We recommend the following references for your further research of the ship. The references marked with have been included in the generation of the ship profile on this page.
Otmar Schäuffelen
"Die letzten grossen Segelschiffe"
Delius Klasing Verlag 1997 ISBN: 3-7688-0483-6
(9. aktualisierte Auflage)
Page: 102 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data
Ingrid Schmidt
"Maritime Oldtimer, Museumsschiffe aus 4 Jahrhunderten"
Edition Leipzig 1986
Page: 24, 63 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data
"Faszination Segelschiffe"
Ein interaktives Informationssystem auf CD-ROM 1998
(2. überarbeitete Auflage)
Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data Quelle with contact
(Zeichnung)
Otmar Schäuffelen
"Die letzten grossen Segelschiffe"
Delius Klasing Verlag 2002 ISBN: 3-7688-0483-6
(10. aktualisierte und erweiterte Auflage)
Page: 116 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data