German-Soviet friendship (ship)

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German-Soviet friendship
The ship in the Norderneyer marina
The ship in the Norderneyer marina
Ship data
flag GermanyGermany Germany
other ship names
  • Sedan
  • Director Ehmke
  • Soviet friendship
  • Friendship
Ship type Passenger ship
home port Szczecin
Shipyard Stettiner Oderwerke
Launch Spring 1895
Whereabouts is scrapped in Papenburg
Ship dimensions and crew
length
42.66 m ( Lüa )
width 6.5 m
Draft Max. 1.8 m
measurement 142 GRT
 
crew 8 men
Machine system
machine 2 diesel engines
Machine
performance 		300 hp (221 kW)
Top
speed 		9.0 kn (17 km / h)
propeller 2
Transport capacities
Permitted number of passengers 409

The German-Soviet Friendship was a passenger ship of the White Fleet with its home port Stralsund . From the 1990s until 2015 it served as a base for the “Meeting Point Sailing School Norderney” under the name of friendship .

history

The ship was launched in spring 1895 as a steamship named Sedan on the Stettiner Oderwerke . In August it was put into service by Dittmann & Köhnke in Stettin . From 1898 the Sedan belonged to the Schwedt-Stettiner Dampfschiffs-Gesellschaft GmbH from Greifenhagen . Both shipping companies use the ship on the Oder . From 1921 she also drove there between Stettin, Greifenhagen and Schwedt / Oder as director Ehmke for the Greifenhagener steamship shipping company. Pure excursions to Swinoujscie were occasionally carried out in the summer season. During the Second World War , the ship was mainly used to carry cargo.

From 1948 the director Ehmke was employed by the Stralsund Steamship Company as a traffic and tugboat. From 1951 on she drove for the German Shipping and Handling Operations Center (DSU) in the passenger service of Greifswald , Baabe and Wolgast . In 1952, the DSU used the ship, renamed as Soviet friendship , together with the chartered island of Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea traffic, including from Wolgast to Greifswald, Stralsund and Hiddensee and between Baabe and Hiddensee. The name was changed to German-Soviet Friendship in 1954. In 1955, she was converted into a motor ship at the Havelberg ship repair yard . On January 1, 1957, she was taken over by the newly founded White Fleet in Stralsund and used in regular service between Stralsund and Hiddensee until she was decommissioned in 1990 .

In 1991 the “Treffpunkt Segelschule Norderney” acquired the ship and had it overhauled and converted in Emden and at the Diedrichs shipyard in Oldersum until 1992 . The sailing school uses the ship, renamed MS Freund , as a base, as well as an accommodation and training ship. In winter the ship is moored in Emden, the rest of the time in the port of Norderney .

In 2015 the ship was sold to DA Schiffsverwertung in Papenburg for demolition.

technology

The Sedan was equipped with two composite steam engines of 130 hp each, which acted on two fixed propellers and with which it reached a speed of 9  knots . During the conversion in 1955, two diesel engines with 150 hp each were installed. With the marine diesel engines of the type SKL 6 NVD 26 A2 with two times 300 HP installed during the conversion in 1991/92 , the ship reaches 12 knots.

For passenger service, the ship was last approved for 409 passengers.

literature

  • Claus Rothe: German seaside ships. 1830 to 1939 . In: Library of Ship Types . transpress publishing house for transport, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-344-00393-3 , p. 64-65 .

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