Duchesse Anne (ship, 1901)
_1.JPG) The Duchess Anne as Grand Duchess Elisabeth
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The Duchesse Anne is the only remaining French full ship and is named after the Duchess Anne de Bretagne . The former Grand Duchess Elizabeth was the first German merchant navy - training ship .
Construction and launch
The ship was built in 1901 as Grand Duchess Elisabeth by the Joh. C. Tecklenborg shipyard in Geestemünde for the German School Ship Association as a full ship in steel and began its maiden voyage on March 17, 1901 . It was named after the Oldenburg Grand Duchess Elisabeth (1869–1955). The Grand Duchess Elisabeth was designed by shipyard director Georg W. Claussen and had three sister ships .
The launch took place on March 7, 1901. Originally, the godmother, Grand Duchess Elisabeth, was supposed to do the baptism herself, but due to an illness of her husband Friedrich August she had to cancel her participation in the event. Participation Kaiser Wilhelm II. Was also provided, but due to a recently at him in Bremen perpetrated the assassination , in which he was slightly injured in the face, accounted for his participation. The baptism was carried out by her brother, Duke Adolf Friedrich von Mecklenburg , in place of the godmother . The ceremony took on the part of the Imperial Navy Admiral Hans von Koester Admiral, Prince Henry of Prussia and Rear Admiral Richard Aschenborn part. The directors of the Hamburg-America-Line and the North German Lloyd were also present .
history
The training ship, known colloquially as Lisbeth , was used by the German merchant navy until 1945, but no longer on the high seas from 1932. The ship made its last voyage for the German Training Ship Association in the Baltic Sea in 1931/32 . It was then sold to the Hamburg seaman's school in Hamburg-Finkenwerder , dismantled and used as a stationary training ship. In 1944 the ship was moved to Wismar to get it out of the range of British bombers . The seaman's school continued to operate on board. In 1945 the ship was taken over by the Royal Navy .
The ship came to France in 1946 as a reparation payment and was given the new name Duchesse Anne . It lay in Lorient and Brest for many years and was eventually slated for dismantling . On a private initiative it was then preserved in its condition as a training ship . In 1981 it was bought by the city of Dunkirk for the symbolic price of one franc and then restored over many years. Today the Duchesse Anne lies there as a museum ship in the harbor.
Movie
The Grand Duchess Elisabeth appears in a short sequence in the documentary S.M. Auxiliary cruiser "Wolf" can be seen, which was filmed in Kiel harbor in February 1918 .
literature
- Jens Janssen [d. i. Jochen Brennecke ]: White sails over blue waves. Sailing training ship "Grand Duchess Elisabeth" , Munich (Moewig-Verlag) 1959 ( SOS - Fates of German Ships Vol. 176)
- Schulschiffverein Grossherzogin Elisabeth (Ed.): Logbook "Lissi" 1909 - 2009. 100 years of "SSS Grand Duchess Elisabeth" , Elsfleth 2009.
- The launch of the young ship's school ship "Grand Duchess Elisabeth". In: Nachrichten für Stadt und Land (Oldenburg) of March 8, 1901, p. 6
- Gerhard Eckhardt: The sailing ships of the German training ship association. A documentation , Bremen (Hauschild) 1981. ISBN 3-920699-37-8
See also
- Grand Duchess Elisabeth
- Dar Pomorza (ex Prince Eitel Friedrich )
- Statsraad Lehmkuhl ( ex Grand Duke Friedrich August )
Individual evidence
- ^ Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 4th, updated and expanded special edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0373-3 , p. 620.
Web links
- Brief history and pictures
- The trip to the West Indies of the sailing school ship "Grand Duchess Elisabeth" in 1906-07 (travel report by Captain Richard Dressler)
- Association des Amis de la Duchesse Anne
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 15.3 " N , 2 ° 22 ′ 20.1" E