Bärbel (ship)
 The Stadum in IJmuiden
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The Bärbel is a coaster that made headlines after it was found floating off Esbjerg in August 1993 without its crew .
history
The ship
The Bärbel in 1986 by the Dutch Scheepswerf ladies Gorinchem in Gorinchem to set keel but not completed until 1989, and delivered. The ship's owner was the captain's owner Heinrich Telkmann, who initially put the ship, named after his wife, into service under the German flag with its home port of Haren (Ems) . Later the flag was changed to Antigua and Barbuda (home port: St. John's).
The ship is designed as a river-seagoing ship with a hydraulically lowerable lifting bridge and has a single, box-shaped hold 63.35 meters long and 10.10 meters wide. The cargo space is 3983 m³ for bulk goods and 3907 m³ for general cargo, the load capacity is around 3000 tons. The tank ceiling of the hold is reinforced for the transport of heavy loads as well as equipped with facilities for the transport of containers . The ship's container capacity is 158 TEU ; 78 TEU can be loaded in the hold, 80 on deck. The cargo hold is locked sea- tight with hydraulic MacGregor folding hatch covers, the support structure of which has a structure that is open to the outside, which reduces the built-up space counted in the ship survey.
The ship's drive system consists of a six - cylinder four - stroke diesel engine from the manufacturer Krupp Mak Maschinenbau in Kiel (type: MaK 6 M 332). The motor has an output of up to 600 kilowatts at 630 revolutions per minute and drives a fixed propeller via a reduction gear . The mooring and casting off maneuvers can be supported by a bow thruster with an output of 220 kilowatts. The auxiliary motors are two MWM D 234 diesel engines, each with an output of 87 kilowatts, which drive two generators with an apparent output of 105 kVA each , and an emergency diesel with an output of 38 kilowatts that drives a generator with an apparent output of 48 kVA.
The ship changed hands and name several times. After the murder cases in August 1993, the ship continued its service as Alpha . In 1999 the ship was renamed Westerhusen again , and from 2002 to 2014 the ship operated under the name Stadum for the Marner shipping company Erwin Strahlmann . In February 2014 the shipping company Wakes & Company from Walthamstow acquired the ship and renamed it Stad . In the meantime (April 2018) the ship is sailing under the Vanuatus flag for the Turkish company Mora Shipping in Istanbul and is classified by the Indian Register of Shipping .
Murders on board the Bärbel
In August 1993 the ship loaded by Meerpahl & Meyer was on a journey with a load of rapeseed from London to Rostock . After the ship left London, the master phoned his wife on the morning of August 15, 1993 without reporting any difficulties on board. Later on there was a previously unresolved incident with a fatal confrontation. Three days later, on August 18, 1993, the ship of the two in was Hirtshals -based trawlers HG 270 Tannisbugt and HG 271 Normark about 85 nautical miles west of Esbjerg , which is well north of the actual course leaderless and without team found adrift. The 28-year-old Russian seaman Andrej Lapin was found shortly afterwards with around 60,000 DM in a life raft . The rest of the crew was initially lost.
The Bärbel was brought into Esbjerg on the morning of August 19th. During the subsequent investigations on board, police technicians found blood, hair and skin remains as well as other indications of violent confrontations and attempted arson in several places. During the interrogation, Lapin first stated that a fire had broken out on board and that he had disembarked in an accidentally released life raft . However, his version did not match the traces of looting and other clues found on board. Lapin was then arrested by the Danish authorities. On September 14th, Dutch fishermen found the body of Captain Telkmann. In April 1994, a body was washed ashore in Sweden, which may have been a member of the ship's crew. On December 13, 1993, Lapin was handed over to the German police.
On September 5, 1994, the Osnabrück public prosecutor brought an action against Lapin before the regional court in Osnabrück , initially the four Russian seamen (machinist Mikhail Mikhailov, sailor Vladislav Bogdan, helmsman Viktor Varenko and cook Anatolij Smolijak) and finally the 50-year-old captain Heinrich Telkmann from Haren To have killed out of greed and then thrown overboard. According to Lapin's statements, however, two crew members had killed the captain and the two other seamen with an ax, whereupon he in turn killed these two crew members in self-defense with their own ax. Since he assumed that no one would believe this incident, he threw all the bodies overboard and tried to set the ship on fire. According to his account, he had found the 60,000 DM he had found. a. earned by selling Russian icons .
On February 3, 1995, Andrei Lapin left the court as a free man because the circumstantial trial that had just ended could not prove that he had committed a murder on board the ship. However, he was sentenced to one year suspended prison sentence for attempted arson. The appeal against the judgment was rejected by the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe on July 17, 1996.
Trivia
The spy thriller Das Axtschiff - Ein Nina-Portland-Thriller , published in 2004 by the Danish writer Jens Henrik Jensen, is based on the criminal case of Bärbel .
In 2008, the broadcaster Danmarks Radio produced a radio documentary about the murder on board the Bärbel .
literature
- "Bärbel" - ship of death . ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Hamburger Abendblatt , August 20, 1993.
- Memory of a "massacre" . In: Meppener Tagespost , November 22, 2008.
- Jens Jenrik Jensen: Øksedramaet . In: JydskeVestkysten , April 22, 2009 (Danish).
Web links
- Description of the ship ( memento of October 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Reederei Erwin Strahlmann
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Classification entry ( memento of the original from April 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , IRClass (PDF file, 15 kB).
- ↑ Ship of Horror . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 1997 ( online - Jan. 13, 1997 ).
- ↑ "Bärbel" -Mordprozeß must be continued - Fax at the last minute , Berliner Zeitung , December 21, 1994th
- ↑ Andrei Lapin . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 1995 ( online - Feb. 6, 1995 ).
- ^ The proceedings for fivefold murder on the coaster "Bärbel" have been legally concluded , BGH, notification of July 30, 1996.
- ↑ The ax ship , Jens Henrik Jensen.
