Artur Becker (ship)

Artur Becker

The Artur Becker 2008 at the Ryck

Ship data flag  DDR Germany   other ship names Ruden Ship type Dive base ship Callsign Y7JH home port Wieck (Greifswald) Shipyard Rosslau shipyard Launch 1951 takeover April 1, 1952 Whereabouts Scrapped in Denmark in 2012

Ship dimensions and crew length 38.95 m ( Lüa ) width 7.20 m Draft Max. 3.50 m   crew 5

Machine system machine Diesel engine Machine performance 338 hp (249 kW) Top speed 9.0 kn (17 km / h) propeller 1

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 24

Others Registration numbers IMO 8860860

The motor ship Artur Becker was a former supply ship of the People's Navy that had been converted into a training ship for the recreational divers training of the GST .

history

The Artur Becker before 2010

The logger 236 Ruden , built in 1951 at the Roßlau shipyard , was used as a supply logger ( auxiliary ship ) for the Volksmarine until it was decommissioned on October 29, 1971 . In 1971 the ship was named after the communist Artur Becker, who was shot in the Spanish Civil War in 1938, and now served as a training ship for the pre-military training of the Society for Sport and Technology at their GST naval school "August Lütgens" in Greifswald-Wieck . In 1982 the Artur Becker was converted into a diver training ship and then continued to be used with the GST. The ship's training trips led into the Baltic Sea, with ports in the then People's Republic of Poland and the Soviet Union being called.

In 1990 the Hanseatic City of Greifswald took over the sponsorship via Artur Becker and in 1992 left the ship to Tauchsportclub Greifswald e. V. for use. The Artur Becker became the largest diving ship for recreational divers on the Baltic Sea and in spring and autumn she served as a base for deep-sea fishing trips to the Adlergrund between the island of Rügen and the Danish Bornholm . During her time as a training ship from 1971 to 2010, she was driven by a total of six captains (first captain: Horst Fechner [1971–76], Horst Berkowitz [1976–79], Peter Batrow [1979–80], Herbert Breitsprecher [ 1980–88], Volker Behm [1988–91], last captain: Karl-Heinz Hanke [1992–2010], also K. with the longest period of service of 18 years). On December 1, 2010, Greifswald sold the logger to a Danish company for € 81,100 after various rescue attempts for further use via Vebeg . On December 2, 2012, the ship was reported as scrapped.

Furnishing

On board the Artur Becker , a maximum of 29 people could be accommodated in two large shared decks (12 people each), two double and one single cabin. A decompression chamber was built into the bow . The ship was equipped with differential GPS , echo sounder and radar .

literature

• Lutz Mohr : School ships under sail and engine . On the history of the GST naval school "August Lütgens" Greifswald-Wieck. Edition Pommern, Elmenhorst 2012, ISBN 978-3-939680-12-3 .
• Lutz Mohr: Between Ryck and Ruden . The socialist construction of our homeland using the example of the “Bruno Leuschner” nuclear power plant, the GST naval school “August Lütgens” and the “Friedrich Loeffler Institute” Insel Riems; Bodden islands in the mirror of history (=  Neue Greifswalder Museumshefte (NGM) . No. 3 ). Museum d. City, Greifswald 1978, OCLC 174441260 .
• Lutz Mohr: Greifswald school ships . In: Urania Universe . tape 33 . Urania, Leipzig / Jena / Berlin 1987, p. 282-287 .
• Greifswald diving club V. (Ed.): MS "Artur Becker" . A picture documentation. Greifswald 2005, p. 28 (numerous color illustrations).
• Reinhard Öser: War scraps in the Baltic Sea . Underwater archeology on marine trails. Military publishing house, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-360-02709-2 , The MS "Artur Becker" is sold, p. 11-20 .

Web links

Commons : Artur Becker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The ship . In: MS Artur Becker . Archived from the original on September 1, 2012. Retrieved on April 22, 2017.
• “Artur Becker” soon to be a traditional ship? In: Ostsee-Zeitung. February 17, 2010, archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; Retrieved April 18, 2012 . 
• Training ship is threatened with scrapping. In: Ostsee-Zeitung. September 27, 2010, archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; Retrieved April 18, 2012 . 
• Public BS resolution B194-10 / 10 Sale of the MV "Artur Becker". (PDF, 23 kB) City of Greifswald, May 12, 2010, accessed on April 18, 2012 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Farewell to the "Artur Becker". In: Ostsee-Zeitung. February 22, 2011, archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; Retrieved April 18, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Christoph Springer: Ship for sale. In: blog.dnn-online.de. November 16, 2010, archived from the original on February 2, 2011 ; Retrieved July 5, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
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