Barbara (jack-up platform)

Barbara

1964 in Kiel

Ship data flag  Germany Ship type Jack-up platform Owner Federal Office for Defense Technology and Procurement Shipyard Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft , Kiel Commissioning June 26, 1964 Decommissioning December 15, 1995 Whereabouts Sale to Curacao

Ship dimensions and crew length 62.08 m ( Lüa ) 49.50 m ( KWL ) width 24.24 m Side height 7.20 m Draft Max. 3.00 m displacement 3439  t measurement 3062 BRT , 2271 NRT   crew 11 + trial staff

Others Registration numbers * Ship identification Y 844 ( 1964–1995 ) IMO 8640284

The jack-up platform Barbara was a test platform for the Bundeswehr . It was assigned to the Wehrtechnischen Dienststelle 71 (WTD 71) in Eckernförde and was used to test weapons and weapons control systems. It was named after St. Barbara , the patron saint of artillery .

The jack-up platform was built by Howaldtswerke in Kiel and handed over to the German armed forces in June 1964. She received a civilian crew with 11 members. The home port was the branch office of WTD 71 in Surendorf on Eckernförde Bay .

Technical specifications

Barbara with lowered support posts. The round device base on which the systems to be tested were mounted is visible in the middle

The platform did not have its own drive and was equipped with eight support piles. The weapons and fire control devices to be tested could be mounted on a central platform.

The power supply was provided by two diesel generators each of 950 hp / 750 kVA and 196 hp / 150 kVA. Two board cranes with a load capacity of 12 and 2.5 tons and two dinghies were available as aids.

In 1979 the support piles were lengthened and a helicopter platform was installed.

tasks

The Barbara was used to test weapons for the German Navy . To do this, it was towed to suitable test areas, from where the weapons could be tested with a live shot. One of the areas was the Meldorfer Bucht , where their operations met with criticism from nature conservationists.

Whereabouts

The jack-up platform Barbara on the wreck of the Pallas

The Bundeswehr put the jack-up platform out of service on December 15, 1995. It was then sold to the Dutch company Heuvelman via VEBEG . From November 19, 1998 to January 10, 1999, the Barbara came from Rotterdam for salvage work on the wreck of the burned-out freighter Pallas . All that is known about the further life of the jack-up platform is that it is still (as of August 2018) registered with an IMO number as Barbara under the flag of Curaçao .

literature

• Gerhard Koop / Siegfried Breyer: The ships, vehicles and planes of the German Navy from 1956 until today . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-7637-5950-6 , p. 439 .

Web links

Commons : Jackinsel Barbara  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helm auf im Watt , in: Die Zeit from May 24, 1985, accessed on August 9, 2018.
2. ↑ List of ship numbers
3. ↑ official report of the WSA Tönning , accessed on August 11, 2018.
4. ↑ Final report of the Pallas investigative committee of the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament on printed matter 14/2650 from January 18, 2000 (pdf; 28.8 MB)
5. ↑ Information from Baltic Shipping , accessed on August 12, 2018