Atlantic (ship, 1871)
 The Atlantic on the Weser
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The Atlantic is a gaff rigged ketch and the oldest still sailable steel hull boat in the world. At the same time, she is the world's oldest active passenger ship with overnight accommodation. The traditional ship is often referred to as the TS Atlantic to make it easier to differentiate , whereby the abbreviation TS stands for a ship registered with the Sail Training Association . The callsign is DJRN .
technology
The Atlantic has a hull length of 22.03 meters and 29 meters over everything. The width is 5.06 meters, the draft about 3.60 meters. Its volume is measured at 162.7 gross register tonnes and 45.07 net register tonnes and has a sail area of 245 square meters, as well as a roughly (in 2010) 90 year old Deutz diesel engine with 160 hp, with which a speed of up to 8 , 5 knots can be achieved.
history
The ship was built by Norddeutsche Schiffbau AG and delivered on March 25, 1871 under the construction number 29 as a steam screw tug Forward to the "United Bugsir Steam Ship Company, Hamburg".
The new building was equipped with a steam piston engine and a cylinder boiler. The ship reached a speed of nine knots; the towing performance has not been handed down. It was used in the towing service on the Elbe. In 1888 it was sold to the Pauls & Blohm shipping company in Hamburg and in 1906 to the Carl Tiedemann tug shipping company. In 1910 it went to August Borsinsky in Kiel. It served as a cargo ship in the Baltic Sea. In 1952 the Atlantic was bought by Biomaris and used as a seawater tanker Biomaris Atlantic off Helgoland .
In 1982 Harald Hanse bought the ship for a scrap price of 45,000 DM. He brought it to the Bremen district of Vegesack and restored it. The ship has been used for charter trips and club excursions since 1989.
literature
- Heinz-Konrad Reith: The TS “Atlantic” - a ship with history. In: Longing for the Sea. A river trip along the Lower Weser.
