Cupid (ship)

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Cupid
State summer 2013
State summer 2013
Ship data
flag GermanyGermany Germany
other ship names
  • Niederbarnim (1940)
  • Polecat (1907)
Ship type Passenger ship
Owner W. Ehrentreich, Zerpenschleuse
Shipyard Gebr. Wiemann Brandenburg an der Havel
Launch 1907
Whereabouts Canceled in 2016
Ship dimensions and crew
length
32.03 m ( Lüa )
width 5.88 m
Draft Max. 1.05 m
displacement 78  t
Machine system
machine 1 × three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine, a boiler
from 1958 four-stroke diesel engine
Machine
performance 		250 PS (184 kW)
propeller 1
Transport capacities
Permitted number of passengers 300 (other source 350)

The Amor passenger ship , which was launched as a tugboat in 1907 at the Wiemann Brothers Brandenburg an der Havel shipyard , was demolished in 2016 after it had been inoperable for many years in Berlin and Brandenburg. It was named after the Roman god of love .

history

The later passenger ship Amor was built in 1907 as a tugboat Iltis with hull number 77 in the shipyard of the Wiemann brothers in Brandenburg an der Havel for the owner W. Ehrentreich in Zerpenschleuse .

The polecat was 26.50 meters long, 5.40 meters wide and, with the chimney in place, 2.20 meters high. The steam engine had an output of 250  hp . From 1940 the Transport-Genossenschaft Berlin (TGB) took over the ship and named it Niederbarnim . The Niederbarnim mainly hauled on the Berlin-Hamburg route. At the end of the Second World War , the steamer should have got a new boiler. Due to the post-war material shortage, however, the ship was not repaired. The no longer operational ship was brought from the berth at the Schuppan shipyard in Berlin-Stralau to the Westhafen . The Schmolke & Söhne shipping company took over the ship in May 1958 and had it converted to the 32.03 meter long and 5.88 wide Amor passenger ship at the Wiese shipyard in Spandau . The steam engine was removed and a four-stroke diesel engine with around 250  hp was installed. In 1980 the Riedel shipping company took over the ship and used it in the inner city of Berlin. In the meantime, the Amor was a café, bar and restaurant on the Lessing Bridge in Berlin. After a fire, as a result of which the ship almost sank in the Spree , it came to Berlin-Grünau . It was there for several years, close to the wreck , on the north bank of the Teltow Canal at a former gravel loading point of the former Grünau concrete plant on Grünauer Strasse . Since 2012 the berth was in the Brandenburg Niederhavel and from 2015 in the silo canal at the former concrete plant, before 1945 the Opel plant in Brandenburg . At the beginning of September 2015 it was announced that the ship was to be canceled.

2015, before the final demolition

The Amor was the second oldest known former steamer from the Wiemann brothers' shipyard.

literature

  • Kurt Groggert: Passenger shipping on the Havel and Spree . Berlin contributions to the history of technology and industrial culture, vol. 10, Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-7759-0153-1 , p. 289 ff.
  • Dieter Schubert: German inland passenger ships. Illustrated register of ships. Uwe Welz Verlag Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-933177-10-3 , p. 438

Web links

Commons : Amor  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files