Christian Radich
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The Christian Radich is a steel training ship with a full ship - rigging , which was named after the Norwegian cavalry officer, entrepreneur and shipowner Christian Radich (August 15, 1822– June 29, 1898).
prehistory
In 1889 Christian Radich donated 90,000 crowns to a foundation for the construction of a sailing training ship on the condition that it be named after him. As early as 1916, the purchase of a full ship ( Transatlantic ex Mersey , 1,847 gross registered tonnes (GRT) , for 410,000 crowns) and its use as a cargo-carrying sailing training ship, renamed Christian Radich, was intended to meet Radich 's request. But the company could not be realized because the ship was ordered to Kristiania (since 1924 again Oslo ) due to the enormous increase in ship prices and sold a year later (for 800,000 kroner). Another 20 years would pass before Christian Radich's wish could be realized. In 1937 Christian Radich was launched almost 40 years after the death of its namesake.
In 1877, while Radich was still alive, the “Committee for the purchase of a ship as a training ship for boys destined to be sailors” (“Commite for Innkjøp af Skib til Skoleskib for Gutter bestemte til Sømend”) was founded (today: “Det Stiftelsen Christian Radich”) first bought the English barque Lady Gray and renamed it Christiana in order to train seafarers since 1881. In 1901 it was replaced by the training ship - Brigg Statsraad Erichsen , bought by the Kriegsmarine , whose successor was Christian Radich in 1937 .
history
Her first trip took her to Halden (then Frederikshald near the Swedish border), to the Orkney Islands and to Leith , Scotland , then back to the Baltic Sea . In 1939 she sailed under Captain Alf Bryde on her first transatlantic voyage to New York . In 1940 the ship was confiscated by Germany and used as a depot ship for submarine crews. During a bombing raid on Flensburg in 1945 , the ship sank after being hit in the port. After the Second World War it was lifted, hauled to Sandefjord and re-rigged as a training ship for 70,000 pounds - it would have been more expensive to break it down.
In 1957, the ship starred in the Cinemiracle panorama film “ Windjammer ” and in the 1970s in the television series “ The Onedin Line ”. During the filming of "Windjammer", Christian Radich also encountered the Pamir , which went down in a storm shortly after the recordings. It is the last filming of the Pamir .
Further, major overhauls took place in 1980–1983 at their shipyard in Sandefjord and 2001–2002 at the “Drammen Skipsreparasjon” shipyard, Drammen, Norway . The ship took and takes part in various Tall Ship part -meeting and had multiple winners in the Tall Ships' Races . Since 1999, the ship has no longer been used as a training ship, but as a charter ship and undertakes tours for paying guests. The foundation has also set up a new form of sailing ship school for Christian Radich : In the summer months, teams of up to 80 self-paying students can take part in trips lasting a few days.
The Christian Radich is regularly at the Sail in Bremerhaven guest.
Some placements in regattas :
2016 - 4th place Antwerp - Lisbon
2016 - 2nd place Lisbon - Cadiz
Ship data
- Construction : steel - hull as smooth decker with large back and poop (training ship superstructure)
- Rigg : full ship , double topsails and single slab sails, royals; Masts with Mars and Bram poles
- Launched : February 5, 1937 as construction number 115
- Maiden voyage : June 17, 1937 to Halden, Kirkwall ( Orkney Islands ), Leith ( Scotland ), Baltic Sea : Stockholm , Helsinki ( Finland ), Karlskrona
- first transatlantic voyage: May 14, 1939 to New York , USA
- Distinguishing signal : LJLM
- Boatyard : Framnäs Mekaniske Verkstæd , Sandefjord , Norway
- Designer: Chap. Christian Blom, Director of "Marinens Hovedverft", Horten, Norway
- Shipping company : Østlandets Skoleskib, Oslo , Norway
- Home port : Oslo
- Figurehead : yes, a woman in a blue robe
- Length over all (Lüa) : 72.5 m / 74.5 m (jib boom-captain gig at the stern)
- Length Galion - stern (hull length): 62.5 m
- Length on deck (LaD) : 59 m
- Length in the KWL : 53 m
- Width: 9.80 m
- Draft : 4.9 m
- Measurement : 676 GRT (gross registered tonnes) / 207 NRT (net registered tonnes)
- Sail area : 1,234 m² (1,330) m² (27 sails; 15 yard, 6 stay, 5 headsails, 1 mizzen)
- Mast height: 44 m ( keel - flag button ); 39 m (main deck flag button)
- Auxiliary drive: diesel engine of 220 hp (Deutsche Werke AG, Kiel); later: 12 cylinder four-stroke Caterpillar diesel engine of 850 HP (8 kn)
- Construction costs: NKR 609,293.04
- First skipper : Alf Bryde
- Crew : 16 men, 80–100 trainees
- Top speed: 14 kn
- Special features: Captain gig at the stern
Others
- Christian Radich to the theme music by Aram Chatschaturjan can be seen in the opening credits of the British television series The Onedin Line (1971–1980) (in seasons 6 to 8).
Individual evidence
- ↑ School trips , Oct. 2, 2019
Web links
- Windjammer: The Voyage of the Christian Radich in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- bruzelius.info (engl.)
- freenet-homepage.de/schiffsphoto6 (German)
- [1] (English, history of the "Christian Radich")
- Collection of photos by Windjammers Christian Radich can be reached via "Stocklist"
- About the film "Windjammer" with Christian Radich