Adolf Vinnen (ship, 1922)

Adolf Vinnen

The Adolf Vinnen , stranded on the Lizard Peninsula

Ship data flag  German Empire Ship type Auxiliary sailors class Vinnen schooner home port Bremen Owner FA Vinnen & Co. Shipyard Friedrich Krupp Germania shipyard , Kiel Launch 1922 Whereabouts stranded

Ship dimensions and crew length 97 m ( Lüa ) width 13.5 m Draft Max. 5.8 m measurement 1,287 GRT   crew 24

Machine system machine Diesel engine Machine performance 350 hp (257 kW) Top speed 7 kn (13 km / h) propeller 1

Rigging and rigging Rigging Vinnen rigging Number of masts 5 Number of sails approx. 20 Sail area 2,320 m²

The Adolf Vinnen was a five-mast topsail schooner that was stranded and lost on its maiden voyage .

Rigging

The ship, named after the Bremen shipowner Adolf Vinnen , was one of the so-called Vinnen schooners , a class of five auxiliary sailors that the Bremen- based shipping company F. A. Vinnen & Co. had built in 1922. The ships were characterized by their special combination of square and cheek sails in the rigging , the so-called Vinnen rigging . It was five-masted gaff schooner with jib and Mittelrahtopp that the jib and the center pole had instead of Gaffeltopsegels four square sails like a topsail schooner.

Construction and technical data

The Adolf Vinnen expired in December 1922 with the hull number 424 at the Friedrich Krupp Germania shipyard in Kiel from the stack . She was 97 m long and 13.5 m wide, had a draft of 5.8 m and was measured at 1827 GRT and 1524 NRT . With at least 20 sails on its five masts, it could have a sail area of 2320 m² . In addition, she was equipped with a 4-cylinder Germania diesel engine of 350 hp , which enabled a speed of 7 knots via a fixed propeller .

Maiden voyage and sinking

The ship was put into service in early February 1923. The maiden voyage went from Kiel to Barry (Wales) , where coal was to be loaded. After only a week's voyage, the ship suffered rudder damage in a storm at the western exit of the English Channel on February 9, 1923 and was hit at Hot Point, just under a nautical mile east of Lizard Point , at position 49 ° 57 ′ 54 ″  N , 5 ° 11 ′ 1 ″  W driven onto the rocky coast of the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall . The 24 men of the crew were rescued from the cliffs above the wreck with a trouser buoy . The ship had to be abandoned. The Adolf Vinnen was the last large sailing ship to sink on the Lizard.

The wreck , broken into two main parts and many smaller parts, is still about 12 m deep off the coast on the partly rocky, partly sandy seabed.

Web links

Commons : Adolf Vinnen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The ship on wrecksite.eu accessed on November 20, 2018 (English)

Footnotes

1. ↑ A Diver's Guide to the Shipwrecks of the Lizard; Part 1: The Western Lizard ( Memento from July 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 49 ° 57 ′ 54 ″  N , 5 ° 11 ′ 1 ″  W.