Alkor (ship, 1965)

Alkor

Ship data flag  Germany other ship names Alk (since 1990) Ship type Research ship home port Kiel Owner Federal Republic of Germany Shipyard Hitzler shipyard Launch 1968 Whereabouts 1990 converted to a yacht

Ship dimensions and crew length 38.14 m ( Lüa ) width 9.0 m Draft Max. 3.6 m measurement 369 GRT

Machine system Top speed 13 kn (24 km / h) propeller 2

The Alkor was a German research cutter that was used by the Kiel Institute for Oceanography from 1968 to 1990 .

She ran on 19 August 1965 the shipyard JG Hitzler in Lauenburg from the stack and was named after the star Alcor named. It was then expanded in 1968 at the August Pahl shipyard in Hamburg-Finkenwerder . In 1990 she was decommissioned after 23 years of service due to the requirements of the Helsinki Convention for the Protection of the Seas , which could only have been met after extensive renovations.

During her service the Alkor had covered 326,000  nautical miles . Their area of ​​operation was in the Baltic and North Sea. The sister ship of the Alkor was the Friedrich Heincke of the Biological Institute Helgoland .

The research ship Alkor of the same name was commissioned as the successor ship in 1990 .

The former Alkor was converted into a yacht in 1990 and renamed Alk . In 2013 the ship was in a Dutch port and was for sale.

Web links

Commons : Alkor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Portrait of the oceanographer Günter Dietrich with pictures of the Alkor from 1965

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FS "ALKOR" - history, construction and equipment , GEOMAR - Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel.
2. ^ Research ship "Alkor" , GEOMAR - Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel.
3. ↑ Sale announcement of the Alk ( Memento from April 8, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )