The ship was built with hull number 588 at the Sietas shipyard in Hamburg-Neuenfelde and was launched on March 24, 1966 as the only built unit of the Sietas type 49 with the name Hans Hinrich . The delivery took place on April 26, 1966 with the name Bell Vanguard .
The owner at the time of commissioning was the Hamburg shipping company Jürgen Heinrich Breuer, which had chartered the ship to the Irish Bell Lines on a long-term basis . The first container service between Ireland started in 1966 with the Type 54 ships Bell Venture ( laid down as Anke ) of the Winter shipping company in Hamburg and Bell Valiant ( laid down as Bernd Becker ) of the Becker shipping company in Jork and mainland Europe.
After the end of the Bell charter, the Bell Vanguard was sold to the Karl-Heinz Baase shipping company in Hörsten on April 1, 1977 and renamed Fallwind . For a short-term charter, she was given the name Bell Vanguard again in the same year , which was changed back to Fallwind in 1978 . She drove under this name for another ten years. The downdraft was on a trip from Kristinehamn (Sweden) to Goole (England) on March 5, 1988 increasing list . The loaded with timber ship finally dropped around 60 nautical miles west-southwest of Thyborøn (Denmark) at position 56 ° 28 ' N , 6 ° 24' O .
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literature
Witthöft, Hans Jürgen: Container . A box makes a revolution. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-7822-0777-7 .
Detlefsen, Gert Uwe: From the Ewer to the container ship . The development of the German coasters. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1983, ISBN 3-7822-0321-6 .
Association of German Shipowners (Ed.): Freight traffic over sea . Stern Verlag, Lüneburg 1993, ISBN 3-923603-00-2 .