Ansgir (ship, 1918)
 The Ansgir (1) on the rocks at Penzer Point
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The Ansgir was a German general cargo ship delivered to Great Britain after the First World War , which stranded in the storm and fog on the south coast of Cornwall in Mount's Bay on December 1, 1920 and had to be abandoned.
Technical specifications
That with 6483 BRT presumptuous steamship ran in 1918 at the AG Neptun in Rostock with the hull number 355 for the Roland-line from the stack and was completed shortly after the war. It was 133.7 m long and 17.4 m wide and had a draft of 8.6 m . It had one propeller and a top speed of 12 knots .
fate
The ship had to be delivered to Great Britain due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty and should then be given to Japan as spoils of war . On December 1, 1920, it was under the flag of the British Department of Shipping on the voyage to Barry (Wales) in Wales to bunker coal there for the ferry trip to Japan . The ship ran in heavy weather and thick fog at Penzer Point between Penzance and Land's End , about 1.5 km south of Mousehole , on the rocky coast. The boats could not be launched. A 19-year-old cabin boy swam ashore on a line, with the help of which some fishermen from Mousehole pulled a thick rope ashore and tied it to a rock. 20 men of the ship's crew were rescued in this way before the men of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution from the Mousehole boat station at Penlee Point arrived on site and disembarked the remaining 25 men with a trouser buoy .
The ship, one of the largest ever to fail between Penzance and Land's End, was so badly damaged that it could not be towed, but had to be demolished on site by the Western Marine Salvage Company from Penzance. Only small residues remained at the stranding site. In August 2011, recreational divers found only parts of the steam boiler and widely scattered steel plates.
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ Rescue of Germans, The Straits Times, Singapore, 6 December 1920, Page 9 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Chippenham Divers Wreck Lookup: Ansgir
Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 12 ″ N , 5 ° 32 ′ 30 ″ W.