Digitization of ship plans

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The digitization of ship plans at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven was part of the DigiPEER joint project (digitization of valuable plans and technical drawings for recording and developing space in the 20th century), which was carried out by four research museums of the Leibniz Association . As part of this project, a total of around 20,000 large-format plans and technical drawings, including around 5,000 ship plans, were digitized and made available to the public via the Internet.

Digitized for the DigiPEER project: General plan for Cap Vilano (9467 GRT), built in 1906 by the Blohm & Voss shipyard for the Hamburg Süd shipping company

DigiPEER in the German Maritime Museum Bremerhaven

For the topic of "Development of the seas through technical progress in shipbuilding" of this project, a lot of effort was made in the archive of the German Maritime Museum to select a good overview of ship types in the 20th century from the collection of over 20,000 technical drawings from shipbuilding .

From the plans and technical drawings, which often come from the inventory of German shipyards and shipping companies , around 5,000 drawings of merchant and special ships were selected for the DigiPEER project . Steamships and motor ships are the most common, as well as some sailing ships and boats. Passenger ships , cargo ships , combined cargo and passenger ships and fishing ships have been digitized as ship types . In addition, work ships , floating dredgers , folding barges, tour ships and boats as well as ships of the water and shipping authorities such. B. buoy layers , lightships and pilot station ships selected for this project.

For the ship plans, mainly general plans were digitized, more rarely line plans , frame cracks , fire protection and safety plans . In the case of sailing ships, the rigging plans are also visible so that the rigging can also be shown . Main machines, auxiliary machines, auxiliary equipment, pipe plans, common rooms, cabins and other details are shown in special plans.

The plans and technical drawings can be enlarged when looking at the corresponding pages on the Internet in order to see details.

DigiPEER joint project of the four research museums of the Leibniz Association

The DigiPEER joint project is an overarching project by four research museums of the Leibniz Association for the digitization of large-format plans and technical drawings. The project partners are the German Museum in Munich , the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven, the German Mining Museum in Bochum and the Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning in Erkner . The project was approved by the Leibniz Association in 2010 and included 5,000 technical drawings per partner, which had to be prepared for digitization and transported to Munich.

All plans were digitized here. Digitization was completed at the end of 2012. At the end of 2013, around 29,000 data records could be accessed on the www.digipeer.de website.

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literature

  • Klaus-Peter Kiedel: Technical drawings on the Internet. DSM and three partner museums successful in the Leibniz Association's competition process . In: Deutsche Schiffahrt, 1/2010, pp. 13–15.
  • Alexander Cordes: DigiPEER is picking up speed - historic shipbuilding drawings from the DSM are being prepared for online access . In: Deutsche Schiffahrt, 1/2011, pp. 13–15.
  • Matthias Röschner and Ludwig Schletzbaum: DigiPEER - A cooperation project of four archives of the Leibniz Association . In: Archivar, 66 (2013) Heft 2, pp. 187-189.

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