The ship was launched in 1954 and, at the suggestion of the then Federal President Theodor Heuss, was named after the zoologist and evolutionary biologist Anton Dohrn and christened by his granddaughter. The ship was put into service by Federal President Heuss on March 3, 1955 and served as a fishery research ship until July 1972. It was 62.30 m long and 10.20 m wide, had a draft of 4.42 m and was measured at 999 GRT. An oil-fired 850 PSe steam piston engine with an exhaust turbine, which was built in 1942 but has not yet been used, gave the ship a top speed of 12 knots . The crew consisted of 30 men; in addition, up to 15 scientists were on board.
Fishing protection boat Meerkatze II
After reconstruction from August 1972, the ship then served as a fishing protection boat from December 1972 under the name Meerkatze II until it was dismantled in 1986.
The 1963 in service Walther Herwig was after leaving the first Anton Dohrn in 1973 Anton Dohrn renamed.
literature
Manfred Stein: The oceanographic work of the Institute of Sea Fisheries in Greenland Waters, 1952-2008 . In: Journal of Applied Ichthyology (Ed.): Special Issue: 100 Years of Research at the Institute of Sea Fisheries and its Precursors in Hamburg, Germany . Volume 26, Issue Supplement s1. Blackwell Verlag, Berlin April 2010, p.19–31 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1439-0426.2010.01443.x .
Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Forests (ed.): Fishery protection boats and fishery research vessels of the Federal Republic of Germany: Tasks and activities from 1948 to 1975, Bonn / Hamburg, 1975 (excerpts: "General plan of the FFS Anton Dohrn " )
