Ettsi IV

Ettsi IV

Ship data flag  Germany other ship names Thalatta (1923-1931) Ship type Sailing yacht Shipyard AG Neptun , Rostock Build number 390 Commissioning 1923

Ship dimensions and crew length 19.5 m ( Lüa ) 14.88 m ( KWL ) width 4.2 m Draft Max. 2.6 m measurement 26 GRT

Rigging and rigging Rigging Ketch Number of masts 2

The Ettsi IV was a German sailing yacht that was built in 1923 as a Thalatta by the Rostocker Actien-Gesellschaft “Neptun”, shipyard and machine factory under construction number 390.

The Thalatta was launched and built for Dir. Ehmke, Hamburg, after a crack by the Rostock shipyard director and yacht designer Gerhard Barg . The ketch was at 26 BRT a length of 19.5 meters above everything and 14.88 meters in length in the water line. The Thalatta was up to 4.2 meters wide and had a draft of 2.6 meters. This last yacht construction Bargs is one of the few sailing yachts that have been built in steel at the Neptun shipyard. The Thalatta went to the government council in 1931. D. Wilhelm Wölfing and was renamed Ettsi IV . The home port changed to Stettin via Kiel. The Corps student Wölfing, since 1903 a member of the Corps Vandalia Heidelberg , sailed the Ettsi IV under the stander of the Berlin " Watersports Association of Old Corps Students (WVaC) ". The ship made numerous long trips to Norway, but also to the Mediterranean.

In addition to these numerous long journeys, the Ettsi IV also became known as a regatta ship when she became the oldest ship of nine ships in the Bermuda-Cuxhaven Ocean Race in 1936 due to a self-chosen extreme course under skipper Wölfing and navigator Erich Volz Last Ship Home . While the victorious Roland von Bremen only needed 21 days and 3 hours for 3400 nautical miles, the Ettsi IV was the only ship in the field to choose the course north around Scotland through the Pentland Firth and fell into doldrums on this course. Later in the German Bight she had to show up for the finish line in a wind from the northeast. All other yachts had rounded Ireland south and crossed the English Channel . The Ettsi IV needed 28 days and 17 hours to cross the finish line in Cuxhaven to go it alone.

The Ettsi IV and its owners Hans Kadelbach , Hans Heinz Steffani and Georg von der Osten are said to have found each other in Flensburg after the Second World War in 1945 . Then the trace of this yacht is lost.

Around 1950 the ship was acquired under the name Etsi by the Hamburg merchant Henry Brütt, overhauled and made seaworthy again. The yacht remained in his possession until around 1954. After his death it was sold to the Hanseatic Yacht School in Glücksburg.

literature

• Ludwig Dinklage: Ocean races, 70 years of transatlantic regattas, 1866 - 1936. Bremen 1936.
• Heinz Lange, Lothar Kühne: The famous Neptune ketch "Ettsi IV" ex "Thalatta" in: Das Nordlicht , Mitteilungen der Schiffahrtsgeschichtliche Gesellschaft OSTSEE eV , Rostock, issue 57 (15th year) December 2007, pp. 14-19

Footnotes

1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 122 , 802.
2. ↑ (1902–1971), member of the Corps Borussia Berlin , cf. Kösener corps lists 1996, 15 , 307.
3. ↑ Roland von Bremen , Classic sailing yacht from 1936. Designed by Heinrich Gruber, built by Ernst Burmester for a transatlantic race.
4. ^ Travel photos in Die Yacht 1937, Issue 19, p. 12 ff.