Brunshoeft (ship)
The Brunshoeft was a newly built reefer ship from Rheinstahl-Nordseewerken , Emden for the Hamburg shipping company W. Bruns & Co., which was one of the most important German reefer shipping companies until the early 1970s.
history
Before the Second World War, Willy Bruns began as a refrigerated ship owner with shares in the refrigerated ships Ahrensburg and Angelburg owned by H. Schuldt. In 1950, Bruns bought the British Columbia Express together with the fruit importers Bey and Lehmann . It was the first German reefer ship after the Second World War. It was renamed Quadriga and used in German fruit imports until 1961. The first new quartet of cooling ships came in 1955 from the Lübeck Flender works . This ship was built according to the Petersberg Agreement , was allowed to have a maximum measurement of 3000 GRT and not run more than 16.5 knots. Otherwise, the conditions of the Potsdam Agreement with max. 1500 GRT and 12 kn. The quartet had received as a special feature a diesel-electric auxiliary drive, so they ran faster than the allowed 16.5 kn.
Refrigerated ship Brunshoeft
The Brunshoeft (IMO 6616801), like the sister ship Brunstor , was delivered to the shipping company W. Bruns & Co. in 1966 by Rheinstahl-Nordseewerke, Emden . They are replicas of the successful Brunshausen class, which was designed by Blohm and Voss in 1963 . Another seven reefer ships of this type were built by Rheinstahl-Nordseewerke in collaboration with Bruns in 1964 for the USSR.
With a length of 136 m and width of 16.8 m, the Brunshoeft was measured with 4700 GRT, had a load capacity of 5060 tdw and a cargo space of 284,000 cuft or 8049 cbm. The slow-running two-stroke diesel engine delivered 9600 hp and enabled the yacht-like ship to achieve a nominal speed of 21 knots. The superstructures amidships offered space for 39 crew members and 12 passengers.
The Brunshoeft was sold to the USSR in 1975 as Dnestrovskiy Liman .
literature
- Karl-Heinz Hochhaus: Deutsche Kühlschifffahrt (1902–1995) 1996 Publisher HM Hausschild GmbH, Bremen ISBN 3-931 785-11-4