Aventura (ship, 1938)
 |
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||
The Aventura is a former coaster built in 1938 , which the Navy used as a “light artillery carrier ” LAT 5 and guard ship during World War II , operated on the North and Baltic Seas after the war and has been a cabin passenger ship on the Rhine since 1996 .
Construction and technical data
The ship was the second of six new buildings of a river-marine vessel -type of Heinrich fire shipyard in Oldenburg and was in September 1938 for Captain Ferdinand Raap from Krautsand under the hull number 67 placed on Kiel . In October 1938, was launched with the baptism in the name Aventura instead. The sister ships were the Lucie Eckmann (built in 1937, client C. Vollmers, Hamburg ), Düneck (1939, H. Freudenberg, Uetersen ), Steinburg (1939, E. Voss, Lübeck ), Atlantik (1940, Graepel, Neuenfelde) and Zukunft (1940, J. Dreyer, Hamburg).
The length of the ship is 38.60 meters overall, the width is 6.50 meters, and the draft is specified as 2.30 meters. It is measured at 197 GRT and displaces 250 tons. The drive consists of a Deutz six-cylinder diesel engine with an output of 300 hp . This acts on a screw , the ship reaches a speed of 9 knots . Since the conversion to a cabin passenger ship / day excursion ship for the Rhine (1992–1996), the Aventura has been approved for 75 passengers.
history
On December 27, 1938, the Aventura was entered in the Hamburg shipping register and handed over to Ferdinand Raap's shipping company in January 1939. In the last year of peace before the Second World War, the ship transported general cargo on the North and Baltic Seas.
Required by the Navy
In the summer of 1940 the war also reached the Aventura : the Wehrmacht requisitioned the ship on July 27, 1940 in order to use it as a "light artillery carrier" for the planned invasion of Great Britain ( Operation Sea Lion ). In this task, the ship was supposed to provide one-time landing support and then hand over the flak for use on land. For this purpose, the Aventura was equipped with a 75-mm army booty gun and two 37-mm anti-aircraft guns and was given the LAT 5 identification . After the planned invasion was canceled, the armament was reduced to two 20 mm anti-aircraft guns and the ship was assigned to the Cuxhaven port protection flotilla in the course of 1941 with the new identification H 464 . From November 1942, the ID changed there to DC 05 , the task in Cuxhaven remained unchanged.
Kümo on the North and Baltic Seas
After the end of the war, the shipping company received the ship back on July 8, 1945, and the Aventura operated again with general cargo on the North and Baltic Seas until 1992. The owner changed frequently, the name of the ship was retained over the years: Johannes Thode acquired the ship in 1954, Christa and Herbert Reimers were named as owners in December 1966, the ship was launched on December 15, 1968 and on March 26, 1969 acquired by Claus Dieter Meyer. On March 7, 1972 it became the property of Alfred Meyer, in February 1990 it was deleted from Germanischer Lloyd and in 1991 it was sold again to Claus Dieter Meyer. In November 1992 he also sold the ship for good.
Charter and training ship on the Rhine
In 1992, Hans J. Pawils and Margarete Weißenstein acquired the Aventura and converted it into a cabin passenger ship by 1996. The Aventura operates primarily on the Rhine between Basel and Rotterdam as a charter ship and as a training ship for sport boaters. There are numerous exhibits on board as well as a photo exhibition on the history of the ship and on living and working on board the coasters.
literature
- Dieter Schubert: German inland passenger ships. Illustrated shipping register , Uwe Welz Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-933177-10-3 . P. 594
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German Warships 1815–1945, Volume 7: Landing Associations II: Landing vehicles in the narrow sense (Part 2), landing ferries, landing support vehicles, transporters; Ships and boats of the army, ships and boats of the Seeflieger / Luftwaffe, colonial vehicles , Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1990, ISBN 3-7637-4807-5 .
- Gert Uwe Detlefsen, Jürgen Abert: The Chronicle of the German Coasters 1945-1995 , Volume 1, Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen, Bad Segeberg, 1995, ISBN 3-928473-24-7 .
Web links
- Aventura Charter Tours website , accessed January 5, 2019
- Photos and history of the Aventura at alt-oldenburg.de, accessed on January 5, 2019
- Artillery carrier LAT 5 , historisches-marinearchiv.de, accessed on January 5, 2019
- Photos and history of the Aventura at the historic port of Flensburg, accessed on January 5, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Construction list of the Brandt shipyard at alt-oldenburg.de
- ↑ Technical data on the Aventura Charter Tours website
- ↑ a b Gröner, p. 67f.
- ↑ a b Aventura-Historie , historischer-hafen.de
- ↑ a b Artillery carrier LAT 5 , historisches-marinearchiv.de
- ↑ Aventura Charter Tours website
- ↑ Photos and history of the Aventura at alt-oldenburg.de