Prince Bismarck (boat)
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The Fürst Bismarck is a former rowing lifeboat of the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People (DGzRS).
The boat, built in 1893, was stationed at the west station of the North Sea island of Norderney in the same year , where it replaced the wooden lifeboat Barmen .
The nine meter long boat has a width of 2.5 meters and was designed for a crew of eleven people. This developed a drive power between 1 and 1.5 HP while rowing. The boat made of sheet steel was almost unsinkable due to built-in air boxes. Damaged during a mission in 1913, it was replaced by the Fürst Bismarck II in 1914 after a reserve boat was temporarily stationed . However, the source situation is contradictory insofar as it is reported that it was stationed up to 1927. The decommissioned boat is still preserved today and can be viewed in the rescue shed on Norderney. Other sources, however, report that the exhibit is the successor boat, Prince Bismarck II .
Individual evidence
- ↑ DGzRS-Jahrbuch 1994, p. 36.
- ↑ Information on the back of the donation photo card No. 15 of the DGzRS
- ↑ DGzRS-Jahrbuch 1977, p. 33.
- ↑ a b Norderney - history of the station on the DGzRS website
- ↑ Information on the back of the donation photo card No. 18 of the DGzRS
- ^ Deutsche-leuchtfeuer.de: The time of the open rowing lifeboats , accessed on January 2, 2017.