Elfriede (ship, 1904)
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The Elfriede is a Ewer built in 1904 , which has been used as a museum ship in the museum harbor Oevelgönne in Hamburg - Övelgönne since 1998 . lies.
history
The Elfriede in 1904 at the shipyard of JH Jacobs in Moorrege on the Pinnau ( Pinneberg , Schleswig-Holstein ) for the Schiffer C. Wilhelmi from Bützfleth built and registered in the ship register on 4 November 1904th The hull made of riveted steel is 14.75 m long and 4.57 m wide and has a 1.09 m draft . The ship displaces 27 tons .
The ship, rigged as a gaff slup with its 72 m² sail area , a so-called Lühe-Ewer, was until 1951 under six different owners for the transport of the most varied, seasonal freight on the Lower Elbe , the small canals and the tributaries such as Lühe , Este , Stör and Oste used. In addition to general cargo , bulk goods such as stones, grain, chalk, cement, peat etc. were also shipped. In 1920 the ship was motorized. The installation of a more powerful 6-cylinder diesel engine of 60 hp in 1926 expanded the sailing area considerably and also made it possible to bring fresh vegetables and especially fruit from the Altes Land to Berlin . The sails and the two leeboards had become superfluous, and the skipper could now sail safely in the wheelhouse. Home ports after Bützfleth were Abbenfleth , Barnkrug and finally Assel .
A necessary repair in 1951 was so costly that the ship was instead sold as unprofitable. The new owner lengthened the hull by two meters, filled the ship's floor with concrete, placed an excavator on it in the open hatch and thus turned the Elfriede into a floating crane . The ship served as such until 1963. Then it was decommissioned and cannibalized. For the next 20 years the ship's hull lay in the mud at Wischhafen on the banks of the Elbe and was gradually overgrown by vegetation.
Museum ship
In 1984 the Altona Museum acquired the completely gutted hull and had the ship restored in Hamburg between 1984 and 1990. The hull, open at the top, was recovered, towed on its own keel to the training department of the HDW in Hamburg, where it was put on land "for treatment". The cleaning and sandblasting work revealed a variety of clues on the old steel plates to the original appearance of the hull. Further information emerged from official documents that were still found, the building contract of 1904 and a half-model of the shipyard. The old building techniques were used for the restoration and reconstruction. Small technical changes were necessary, however, because after being shortened by two meters to its original length, the fuselage was no longer stable enough to meet today's safety requirements. The mechanical engineering work, including the final assembly of the machine system, was carried out by the Blohm + Voss training department. In mid-1989 the Elfriede could then be transferred to the company Ökologische Technik eV in Finkenwerder , where the final equipment was carried out.
The Elfriede , DFZL differentiation signal, is now in the museum harbor Oevelgönne and is maintained and sailed on a voluntary basis by a support group.
Web links
- Website of the Elfriede
- The Elfriede on the pages of the museum port Oevelgönne
Footnotes
- ↑ A mast with gaff rigging .