Berlin (ship, 1889)

**Berlin**
	Historic trip with Kaiser Wilhelm II on board
Ship data
flag	German Empire
Ship type	Icebreaker
Shipyard	AG Vulcan , Szczecin
Launch	December 24, 1889
Whereabouts	Wrecked in 1951
Ship dimensions and crew
length	42.0 m ( Lüa )
width	10.72 m
Draft	Max. 3.5 m
displacement	630 t
measurement	439 GRT; 175 NRT
crew	14 men
Machine system
machine	Compound machine
Machine ; performance	900 hp (662 kW)

The Berlin was an icebreaker , built in 1889. The steamship ran under the flags of the German Empire and the FRG .

The ship was launched on December 24, 1889 at the Stettiner Maschinenbau AG Vulcan shipyard in Stettin for the Stettin Chamber of Commerce and Industry . The icebreaker was approved by the Society Dampfschiffs JF Braeunlich Szczecin bereedert and was on the Baltic Sea used. At the end of the Second World War he was initially decommissioned in Kiel in 1945 . The ship was put back into operation in 1947 by the Hamburg Sea Water Authority and in 1949 became the property of the Nordmeer-Reederei Hamburg . After their bankruptcy in 1951, they were sold for scrapping.

literature

Rammelt, Hans-Georg: “Berlin” on all seas. Ships from three centuries. Berlin: Brandenburgisches Verl.-Haus, 1996. ISBN 3894881062 .
Special issue “750 Years of Berlin”: Panorama maritim. Bulletin of the GDR working group for shipping and naval history. No. 21, 1987.