Fairplay shipping company

Fairplay tugboat shipping company Richard Borchard GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1905
Seat	Hamburg Germany
management	Walter Collet, Holger Schwesig
Number of employees	437.
sales	EUR 88 million.
Branch	Tug shipping company
Website	fairplay-towage.de

Fairplay X , the Fairplay Towage tugboat in the port of Rotterdam, 2004

The Fair Play Schleppdampfschiffs Ship Reederei Richard Borchard GmbH - Fairplay Towage is a towing company with main seat in Hamburg .

In 2010, the shipping company operated the so-called fair play fleet of 27  tugs , from simple push boats to deep-sea tugs , in Hamburg, Rostock , Rotterdam , Antwerp , Sassnitz , Stralsund , Wolgast , Stettin and Danzig . In addition to tugging, a number of other ship and port assistance companies, such as mooring , ship reporting , shipbuilding , ship repairs and steel construction come together under the umbrella of the Fairplay Towage . It also has its own property management.

The Fairplay Group includes, among others, the Hamburg shipyard Theodor Buschmann GmbH & Co. (ship repairs and special steel construction for the offshore industry ), the Rostock BBB Schlepp- und Hafendienst GmbH (port and short sea towing services) and Borchard Schiffahrts GmbH (administration of real estate). The towing, shipping and recovery company has also been part of it since 2017 .

history

Since it was founded as Fairplay tugboat shipping company Richard Borchardt in 1905, the company has been owned by the Borchard (t) family, currently (2014) in the fourth generation. The company suffered a collapse in National Socialist Germany when the Jewish owner Lucy Borchardt (1877–1969) was expropriated in 1938 and had to emigrate to London . In 1950 the family was able to obtain the repatriation through reparation proceedings.

Surname

The name fair play goes back to the first tugs of the shipping company or its predecessor company Carl Tiedemann, who from 1895 gave his assistance ships in the Port of Hamburg the same name because he had an advantage in the tough and international competitive business according to the motto " the name says it all " promised. The transfer to the shipping company initially took place incidentally, until it was officially used as The Fairplay Steam-Tug Company in 1909 in addition to the registered company name Schleppdampfschiffs-Rhederei Carl Tiedemann and Pauls & Blohm . On October 1, 1924, the company was entered in the commercial register as the Fairplay tugboat shipping company Richard Borchardt . During the emigration to Great Britain from 1938 the family changed their name to Borchard ; When the company was re-registered in 1950, the company was changed to Fairplay Schleppdampfschiffs-Reederei Richard Borchard GmbH . With the expansion of entrepreneurial activities to the European domestic market since 2006, the towage took the English name Fairplay Towage . Under the name Fairplay Towage & Shipping Co. Ltd. Lucy Borchardt had already secured the continued existence of the company in 1938 in exile in London.

Company chronology

View of the Vorsetzen 1888, on the far right the house with the Old Commercial Rooms , in which Carl Tiedemann founded the company

The history of the Fairplay shipping company goes back to the port worker Carl Tiedemann (died 1919), who founded a service company in the up-and-coming Hamburg port in 1879 and offered tug and maneuvering services, mooring, cargo handling and goods handling. The place of business was the parents' inn Old Commercial Rooms on the Vorsetzen . In 1891, Tiedemann bought his first harbor tug, the two-year-old 28-GRT ship Assistent, from Sanders & Co. and renamed it Picador . A year later he ordered his own new build, the Auguste tug, from the Sachsenberg shipyard in Roßlau on the Elbe . Carl Tiedemann ordered the third tug from the Janssen & Schmilinsky shipyard in Hamburg in 1895 . He called this new building, with a measurement of 66 GRT and an output of 330 hp, fair play , it was the first ship of this name in the tug fleet that still exists today. In 1897 Richard Borchardt (1875–1930) joined Carl Tiedemann's company as the first commercial employee and arranged the company's administrative matters. He saw to it that the company was entered in the commercial register as Carl Tiedemann stevedoring and tugging , protected the name Fairplay as a telegram address and became a member of the stock exchange.

Tugboat shipping company Carl Tiedemann and Pauls & Blohm

In 1905 Carl Tiedemann merged with the stevedoring of Johannes Pauls and Carl Heinrich Blohm. Under the name Schleppdampfschiffs-Rhederei Carl Tiedemann and Pauls & Blohm AG , the company now traded as a stock corporation under the management of Richard Borchardt and Johannes Heinrich Pauls jr. The first supervisory board was made up of Carl Tiedemann, Harm Jan Pauls, Adolf Büthe and Julius Ohm. The capital, divided into 400 bearer shares, amounted to 400,000  marks . Carl Tiedemann brought the four fair play tugs into the company, and Pauls and Blohm added six ships. The entry in the notarial register on November 25, 1905 is considered the date of foundation of the Fairplay shipping company. The company address was now baumall  10, a few meters from Vorsetzen. The new stock corporation expanded its business areas and, in addition to tugging and port assistance, also operated towing trips on the North and Baltic Seas as well as occasional sea ​​rescue and salvage operations.

The Fairplay IX was launched at Janssen & Schmilinsky, 1910

The shareholders dissolved the stock corporation in 1909 and converted it into a limited partnership . Carl Tiedemann and two other partners were limited partners . Richardt Borchardt became general partner (personally liable partner) with the condition that he had to pay off the co-owners within 15 years. The name of the company was retained, but Borchardt added the addition The Fairplay Steam-Tug Company . The business was also expanded in the following years.

At the beginning of the First World War , the shipping company had eleven fair play ships and two smaller tugs. Except for one, all steamers were requisitioned by the Imperial Navy in 1914 , Fairplay V was drafted in 1916. Richard Borchardt signed up for military service in 1915 and served as a deck officer in the Imperial Navy. His wife Lucy Borchardt took over the management of the company. She kept the business going by chartering replacement vehicles. After the war and the return of the husband, she continued to work for the company.

Fairplay tugboat shipping company Richard Borchardt

Fair play fleet in the winter of 1929 at the St. Pauli Landungsbrücken

On October 1, 1924, Richard Borchardt was able to take over the company as sole owner after the commandantists or their communities of heirs had paid off. He had it entered in the commercial register under the name of Fairplay Towing Steamship Shipping Company Richard Borchardt . The company headquarters was relocated to the neighboring Slomanhaus , Steinhöft 11, at the corner of Baumwall. At the same time, Lucy Borchardt was granted individual power of attorney. In 1929 the son Kurt Borchardt (1908–1997) joined his father's company. When Richard Borchardt died on February 15, 1930, Lucy Borchardt took over the management. From 1934, Lucy Borchardt became involved in the Hachschara for young people who wanted to emigrate to Palestine . Since, according to the entry rules of the British mandate authorities, completed training is a basic requirement for permission to enter the country, she creates apprenticeship positions in her company. Around forty young people who subsequently managed to emigrate have completed vocational training at the shipping company on this basis.

In 1935 the company was in a general partnership converted and Kurt Borchardt joined the management. Jens Borchardt, another son of Lucy and Richard Borchardt, co-founded the Atid Navigation Company in Palestine in the early 1930s . The companies stayed in close contact, and in 1935 the Fairplay shipping company transferred three motor and cargo ships to the company in Haifa . With the transfer of the ships, Jewish emigrants could reach Palestine.

Fair Play Foundation under National Socialist rule

From 1936 the repression against the shipping company increased, competing companies pointed to the "non- Aryan company", the Hamburg foreign exchange office carried out checks, complained about excessively high outstanding debts and withdrew the "general permit for the use of foreign currency". The Reich Office for Foreign Exchange Management also intervened and demanded security measures in accordance with Section 37a of the Foreign Exchange Act, which would have meant the establishment of business assets due to unauthorized foreign exchange transactions. After the Nuremberg Laws were introduced, this was a tried and tested means of National Socialist Germany to induce Jews to emigrate and at the same time confiscate large parts of their property. Since the suspicion could not be confirmed by the foreign exchange auditors , the regional tax office refrained from issuing a security order, but the shipping company was imposed a warning fee of 15,000  Reichsmarks (RM) for negligent behavior.

After Lucy Borchardt had received advice from the banker Max Warburg to sell the company as quickly as possible, she received an offer from the Royal Dutch Stoomboot Maatschappij on June 2, 1938 to take over the haulage for 2 million Reichsmarks. But the shipowner made a different decision and entered into negotiations with Reich Governor Karl Kaufmann and Gau economic advisor Carlo Otte and made the proposal to keep the shipping company at its location in Hamburg and to set up a foundation . This enabled the company to officially be handed over to its employees, albeit against the background of the Foundation Act, which also placed it under the direct control of the Reich Governor. In return, Lucy Borchardt managed to take three of her ships abroad with her when she emigrated in order to build a new life for herself.

The foundation statutes were signed on August 11, 1938. With the main clerk Otto Wolff and the shipowner Heinrich Christian Horn, Kaufmann appointed two personal confidants to the Foundation Board. The "party member" and long-time employee of the fair play shipping company Wilhelm Algermissen was appointed as the operator, but it turned out that he was not acting as a "compliant clerk" and repeatedly resisted attempts to dissolve the foundation. Algermissen was released in 1946 on the instructions of the British authorities, but the Borchard family confirmed that he had remained connected to them during the foundation period. After the reassignment, he was reinstated as managing director and remained in this position until his retirement in 1966.

Lucy Borchardt and her son Kurt Borchardt managed to emigrate to Great Britain in the summer of 1938. In October 1938 the Chief Finance President set a so-called Reichsfluchtsteuer in the amount of 75,000 RM and the entire domestic assets of the Borchardt family, including three properties in Hamburg, were confiscated. After the sale of these properties, 71,000 RM were seized due to alleged tax arrears, a further 42,000 RM was added as capital gains tax. After repaying mortgages and fees, a remainder of RM 20,000 remained, which was paid to a blocked account. In November 1940, he was deprived of Lucy Borchardt after the Reich Citizenship Law , the German nationality , so this remaining money from the 27 November 1940 Hamburg Gestapo was drafted as a "police state security '.

Of the sixteen tugs of the shipping company that remained in Hamburg, ten were drafted into the Navy after the Second World War .

Fairplay Towage & Shipping Co.Ltd. London

With the tugs Fairplay X and Fairplay XIV brought with them from Germany and the steamer Lucy Borchardt , Kurt and Lucy Borchard, who changed their names during emigration without the t at the end, founded Fairplay Towage & Shipping Co.Ltd in London . The tugs now sailed under the British flag and were renamed Fairplay one and Fairplay two . The steamer was sold to the Commonwealth Steam Tug Co. Ltd. in the same year . sold. The two tugs were also used by the British Royal Navy during World War II .

In 1947 Kurt Borchard returned to Hamburg and negotiated with the British military governor to return the company to the family. In November 1948, the foundation's board of directors and Lucy and Kurt Borchard agreed on the transfer of the company back, and in 1949 an agreement was reached with the Hamburg Senate . On February 27, 1950, the Fairplay Foundation was transferred back to Lucy and Kurt Borchard as the Fairplay tugboat shipping company Richard Borchard GmbH . Kurt Borchard now managed the company in Hamburg, Lucy Borchard remained managing director in London. It dissolved the Fairplay Towage there with the transfer and sale of the ships that remained there. She died in London in 1969 at the age of 91.

Fairplay tugboat shipping company Richard Borchard GmbH

In 1958 Kurt Borchard bought the Theodor Buschmann shipyard in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg, which was closely connected to Fairplay through many orders . This had applied for a settlement procedure in October 1957 in order to avert bankruptcy. In association with the shipping company, it was possible to stabilize the medium-sized business again. In addition to ship repairs, he specialized in steel and pontoon construction.

Since 1967, the shipping company has expanded its business areas to include international sea towing, especially offshore services. From this, in 1972, the Fairplay-Petersen & Alpers Seatowage GmbH developed in a merger with the Hamburger Schlepperei Petersen & Alpers especially for the coordination of the deep-sea towing business. The independent company used offshore soul Ichter one, the names Fairalp contributed. When Peters & Alpers withdrew from the ocean towing business in 1986, the company Fairplay-Petersen & Alpers Seatowage GmbH was liquidated in 1988.

Berth of the harbor tugs in Neumühlen, 2009, in the middle the Fairplay I

Since the 19th century, the tugs in the port of Hamburg had been berthed at the St. Pauli Landungsbrücken , opposite the Elbe 17 dry dock . The shunting area on the Elbe became too narrow due to the ever larger ships that docked at this dock, and in 1985 the berth for the tugs had to be moved down the Elbe to Neumühlen . The company headquarters also moved in 1986 because the Slomanhaus was to be rented to someone else. The Fairplay shipping company moved into the nearby Stubbenhuk-Haus (Stubbenhuk 10), another traditional Hamburg office building that was built between 1923 and 1925.

In 1990 the Fairplay shipping company founded its own branch in Rostock and relocated the tugs Fairplay I , Fairplay VIII and Fairplay XV to the Baltic Sea. 1993 saw the partial takeover of the operations and the staff of the former state- owned company (VEB) BBB dredging, towing and salvage shipping company . This shipping company was sold to the Dutch Zwagerman group of companies in 1991 by the trust company responsible for privatization , and in 1992 it was bankrupt and broken up. Fairplay has now been awarded the contract by the creditors' committee for the areas of tugs, pilot transfer service and mooring. Under the name BBB Schlepp- und Hafendienst GmbH , it was continued as part of Fairplay. The takeover included a pilot station and mooring in Wismar , another pilot station including a lighthouse and other real estate on the island of Poel , offices in Warnemünde and Stralsund, a tug, eight pilot transfer boats and twelve pontoon pontoons.

Kurt Borchard died on February 19, 1997. The company remained family-owned as a GmbH.

Fair play towage

Since January 1, 1996, following the introduction of the freedom of establishment within the European Union , the Dutch tug shipping company Kotug established itself in competition with the long-established companies in the Port of Hamburg. Due to tax privileges, foreign companies were able to offer port assistance services at significantly lower prices, which led to the so-called Hamburg Tug War. In return, the Fairplay shipping company prepared to expand its business to the international ports. She placed an order with the Spanish shipyard Constructiones Navales Santodomingo in Vigo for four tugs with ASD propulsion (Azimuth Stern Drive) and bow thrusters, which were used in Rotterdam from 1999 under the name Fairplay Towage BV . On May 1, 2004, after Poland joined the EU, the tug business was also started in the Szczecin port.

In 2004 the Fairplay shipping company took over 50 percent of the shares in the Belgian towing company Unie von Redding en Sleepdienst (URS), which it transferred to the Dutch shipping company Smit Internationale N.V. in 2007. passed on in Rotterdam. In return, Fairplay took a 9.99% stake in Smit, which is one of the largest shipping companies in the world.

The expanded business led in 2007 to the relocation of the Stubbenhuk headquarters to larger offices opposite the Speicherstadt with the new address Bei den Mühren .

In 2017 the company took over the Hamburg-based towing, shipping and rescue company . The merger was completed on November 8th.

Corporate structure

After the takeover of Bugsier in 2017, the structure of the Fairplay Group is as follows:

The parent company and at the same time the highest level of consolidation is the Fairplay Schleppdampfschiffs-Reederei Richard Borchard GmbH , which at the same time also carries out operative business in the area of ​​tug shipping .

The following subsidiaries are also active in tug shipping:

• BBB Schlepp- und Hafenbetrieb GmbH & Co KG, Rostock, 100%
• Fairplay Towage BV, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 100%
• Antwerp Towage NV, Antwerp, Belgium, 50%
• Fairplay Towage Polska Sp. Z oo, Szczecin, Poland, 98%
• Project Zegluga Fairplay Towage Polska Sp. Z oo Sp.k. (formerly: Project Zegluga Sp. z oo), Stettin, Poland, 100%
• Fairplay Iberica SLU, Madrid, 100%
• Odiel Towage SL, Madrid, 100%.

Other direct subsidiaries of Fairplay are the shipyard Theodor Buschmann (GmbH & Co) in Hamburg and the container shipping company Fairplay Containerships BV, Rotterdam,

The Bugsier Group is active on the market as an independent group: Bugsier-, Reederei- und Bergungs-Gesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, WFS Wilhelmshavener Feuerlösch- und Schleppreederei GmbH, Wilhelmshaven, WSR Wilhelmshavener Schleppreederei GmbH, Hamburg.

The emergency tugs "Nordic" and "Baltic", which were fully owned by the Fairplay Group after the takeover of Bugsier, are operated by subgroups combined in NORTUG Holding GmbH & Co. KG and BALTIC Holding GmbH & Co. KG.

List of current fair play tugs

Surname	assignment	shipyard	port	Data	Illustration
Fair play i	2007	Astilleros Armon Navia (Spain)	Rotterdam / Antwerp	ASD tractor 5000 hp, 70 tons, 25 m length, 11.2 m width
Fair play II	1974	Max Sieghold Bremerhaven	Gdynia / Poland	Tractor tug 2320 hp, 30 tons, 16.45 m length, 8.8 m width
Fair play III	2007	Astilleros Armon Navia	Rotterdam / Antwerp	ASD tractor 5000 hp, 70 tons, 25 m length, 11.2 m width
Fair play IV	1978	Max Sieghold Bremerhaven	Szczecin	Tractor tug 2320 hp, 30 tons, 26.32 m length, 8.8 m width
Fair play v	1983	Max Sieghold Bremerhaven	Szczecin	Tractor tug 2320 hp, 30 tons, 26.72 m length, 8.8 m width
Fair play VI	1992	Mützelfeldt shipyard in Cuxhaven	Szczecin	Tractor-tug 3060 hp, 41 tons, 27.96 m length, 9.1 m width
Fair Play VII	1992	Theodor Buschmann Hamburg	Szczecin	Tractor-tug 3060 hp, 41 tons, 27.96 m length, 9.1 m width
FAIRPLAY IX	2015 0	Astilleros Armon, Navia	Hamburg	Hybrid tractor tug 8,158 horsepower, 90 tons 29.67 m long, 13.50 m wide
Fair play X	2009	Astilleros Armon, Navia	Antwerp	ASD tractor 5000 hp, 70 tons, 25 m length, 11.2 m width
Fair play XI	2015	Astilleros Armon, Navia l	Rotterdam	Hybrid tractor tug 8,158 horsepower, 90 tons 29.67 m long, 13.50 m wide
Fair play XII	1993	Roland shipyard Warfleth	Rostock	ASD tug 3360 hp, 42 tons, 31.14 m length, 19.5 m width
Fair play XIV	2009	Astilleros Armon Navia	Rotterdam / Antwerp	ASD tractor 5000 hp, 70 tons, 25 m length, 11.2 m width
Fair play 21	1998	Santodomingo Vigo (Spain)	Rotterdam	ASD tug 4500 hp, 52 tons, 34.75 m length, 10.8 m width, long-term charter
Fair play 23	1998	Santodomingo Vigo	Rotterdam	ASD tug 4500 hp, 52 tons, 34.75 m length, 10.8 m width
Fair play 24	1998	Santodomingo Vigo	Rotterdam	ASD tug 4500 hp, 52 tons, 34.75 m length, 10.8 m width, long-term charter
Fair play 25	2000	Astilleros Zamakona Bilbao , Spain	Sassnitz	ASD tractor 5500 hp, 65 tons, 34.85 m length, 11 m width
Fair play 26	2000	Astilleros Zamakona Bilbao	Rotterdam	ASD tractor 5500 hp, 65 tons, 34.85 m length, 11 m width
Fair play 27	2009	Astilleros Armon Navia	Rotterdam	ASD tractor 5440 hp, 75 tons, 36 m length, 11.61 m width
Fair play 30	2008	Astilleros Armon Navia	rdeuropao	ASD tug 7213 hp, 85 tons, 39 m length, 12.7 m width
Fair play 31	2008	Astilleros Armon Navia	rdeuropao	ASD tractor 7213 hp, 90 tons, 39 m length, 12.7 m width
Fair play 33	2011	Daewoo Mangalia	Offshore / long-haul operations	Sea tug, 6000 kW, 105 tons, 48.8 m length, 13.8 m width
Stralsund	1992	Delta Shipyard Sliedrecht (Holland)	Gdynia / Poland	Single screw tug 580 hp, 8 tons, 13.67 m length, 4.36 m width
Wezyr 1			Gdańsk	Push boat 770 hp, pusher, 22.57 m length, 8.98 m width
Wezyr 2			Gdańsk	Push boat 770 hp, pusher, 22.58 m length, 8.98 m width

History of the fair play fleet

The name Fairplay for the tugs came into being in the Carl Tiedemanns company in 1895 with the commissioning of his third tug. Against the background of the strong competition in the Port of Hamburg, Tiedemann hoped to gain an advantage when placing the order through an internationally common name with reference to fairness, honesty and decency. The name was subsequently used - with the addition of numbering in Roman numerals - for all of the company's other tugs. After a ship was decommissioned or sold, the number that had become available was used again for new acquisitions, so that over the years several ships have run under each name or are still running today.

Due to the expansion of the fleet for international business in the European domestic market , Arabic instead of Roman numerals have been used for numbering since 1998, starting with the Fairplay 21 . However, the tradition that numbers that become available are given to new vehicles has remained.

Fair play i

Fairplay I (1964) as Karl Moritz in the port of Hamburg

• Fairplay I (1895): The first Fairplay was commissioned by Carl Tiedemann from the Hamburg shipyard Janssen & Schmilinsky in 1895 . It had a measurement of 66 GRT and a drive power of 243 kW (approx. 330 PS). In 1914 she was drafted into the Imperial Navy and used in the Jade's Sperrfahrzeug division , and from November 1916 as a traffic steamer in the 1st Squadron of the High Seas Fleet . The tug was returned on an unknown date after the war. During the Second World War, the tug was also drafted into the Navy in 1939, initially stationed at the List coast guard on Sylt , then at the Wilhelmshaven Navy Shipyard , and from 1943 at the Naval Arsenal in Gotenhafen . In July 1945 the tug was returned to the shipping company by the Allies. In 1950 it was sold to the Eisen & Metall company in Hamburg, where it drove for three years under the name "Richard" and was scrapped in 1953.
• Fairplay I (1950): In 1950 the former Fairplay X , which had been built in 1911 and had been driven as Fairplay one in Great Britain since 1938 , was brought back to Hamburg. It ran for a few months under the name Fairplay XX . Then she was broken up and at the shipyard Theodor Buschmann to the hull as Fairplay I rebuilt. It received a six-cylinder Deutz diesel engine with an output of 713 kW (approx. 970 hp) and brought it to a speed of 12 knots. The ship was measured at 160 GRT and was the most powerful tug in the fleet at that time. On September 6, 1954, she was overrun by the passenger ship Italia at Steubenhöft / Cuxhaven and sank. It was lifted, repaired, and started up again in 1955. On February 2, 1959, the Fairplay I sank again, together with the Fairplay VII , the accident occurred during salvage work on the Brammer sandbank on the Lower Elbe . Both ships were lifted, repaired and started up again. In 1964, Fairplay I was sold to Augustea Impresa Maritime SpA in Palermo , Italy, where it ran as "Duro" until it was demolished in 1986.
• Fairplay I (1964): Built in 1964 by the Theodor Buschmann shipyard, it was measured at 98 GRT and had an output of 441 kW (approx. 600 hp). The tug's head office was relocated to Rostock in 1990; in Hamburg it was still used as a reserve tug. The shipping company sold the ship in 1999, after which the tug shipping company Karl H. Meyrose KG had it completely modernized and put it into service under the name "Karl Moritz".
• Fairplay I (2007): This tug was completed in 2007 by the Spanish shipyard Astilleros Armon and initially used in Hamburg, then moved to Rotterdam in 2009. It is an ASD tractor with two 8-cylinder ABC machines with an output of 1850 kW (approx. 2515 PS) each for two Schottel fixed-pitch propeller systems in Kortdüsen , which have a bollard pull of over 70 tons and a speed of Allow 12  knots . It is identical in construction to the Fairplay III , Fairplay X and Fairplay XIV tugs manufactured in this series .

Fair play II

• Fairplay II (1897): It was commissioned by Carl Tiedemann from Janssen & Schmilinsky before 1897, but this ship turned out to be too big for the port of Hamburg. It was not included in the shipping company's official fleet list and immediately sold on to the Hamburg sailing ship company Eugen Cellier. It later became part of the French navy, after the occupation of France it was taken over by German troops in 1940 and destroyed in combat operations in Lorient in 1943 .
• Fairplay II (1898): In 1898 a new Fairplay II was delivered by Janssen & Schmilinsky. It comprised 68 GRT and developed 265 kW (approx. 360 hp). In 1914 the Imperial Navy pulled them in and deployed them to the auxiliary minesweeping division in Cuxhaven. In 1915 she came back to the shipping company. In 1923 she capsized while towing the freighter “Dinteldijk”, and was later lifted and put back into motion. In 1940 she was drafted into the Navy in Hamburg , but returned to the shipping company in the same year. In 1958 the shipping company sold them to be scrapped.
• Fairplay II (1959): Newly built in 1959 by the Theodor Buschmann shipyard, 136 GRT and 736 kW (approx. 1000 PS). It was rebuilt in 1972, converted to a Kort nozzle drive and continued as Fairplay VII .
• Fairplay II (1974): Built in 1974 at the Max Sieghold shipyard in Bremerhaven, 179 GRT and 1280 kW (approx. 1740 PS). It was the first fair play tug with a Schottel drive (Schottel tractor tug).

Fair play III

• Fairplay III (1897): built in 1897 by Janssen & Schmilinsky for the company of Carl Tiedemann, 67 BRT and 199 kW (approx. 270 PS). During a towing operation on December 23, 1908 on the Elbe, near Brunshausen near Stade , together with the Fairplay VIII , overrun and sunk, the ship could be lifted and repaired. In 1914 she was drafted into the Imperial Navy and initially used by the auxiliary minesweeping division in Cuxhaven and, from 1915, at the Imperial Shipyard in Wilhelmshaven. In 1918 it was returned to the shipping company. Drafted by the navy in 1939, initially stationed at the List coast guard station on Sylt, then under the name "Sperber" at the Hörnum sea flying lair , then at the naval construction office on Heligoland . It was returned after the Second World War at an unknown time. In 1950 she was sold to the company Eisen & Metall in Hamburg, drove for another three years under the name "Ingrid" and was broken up in 1953.
• Fairplay III (1951): In 1951 the shipping company bought the tug "Merkur" from the Emden shipping company Johs. Fritzen. It was used instead of the first Fairplay III under this name. On December 9, 1958, it was overrun by an assistant in front of Steinwerder and sank. The crew members were rescued and the ship could be put back into motion after being lifted. In 1963 it was sold to Emil Tiedje in Hamburg for demolition.
• Fairplay III (1963): built in 1963 at the Theodor Buschmann shipyard, 98 GRT, 441 kW (approx. 600 hp). Sold to private customers in 2002, it will continue to offer services in the Port of Hamburg under the new name “Monsun”.
• Fairplay III (2005): Taken over from the Astillerors Armon shipyard in 2005, engine power 1850 kW (approx. 2515 HP), bollard pull 65.5 tons, was initially used in Rotterdam, and since 2009 in Antwerp. She is a sister ship of fair play I .

Fair play IV

• Fairplay IV (1899): built by Janssen & Schmilinsky in 1899, 68 GRT and 213 kW (approx. 290 PS). In 1914 she was drafted into the Imperial Navy and initially used as a tender for the auxiliary minesweeping division in Cuxhaven, from 1918 onwards. The tug was returned on an unknown date after the war. In 1940 it was drafted again by the Kriegsmarine, it was planned for use with the "Operation Sea Lion ", which aimed to land German troops in Great Britain, but the project was abandoned. The tug was returned to the shipping company by the Allies in 1947. In 1952, Fairplay sold it to the Eisen & Metall company in Hamburg, it drove for another seven years under the name "Gustav" and was demolished in 1959.
• Fairplay IV (1954): built in 1954 at Theodor Buschmann's shipyard, 127 GRT and 588 kW (approx. 800 PS). It was the first ship in the fleet to be equipped with a controllable pitch propeller . It was sold to the Dutch company KH Broekmeulen in Vianen in 1978 .
• Fairplay IV (1978): built in 1978 at the Max Sieghold shipyard in Bremerhaven, 190 GRT, 1280 kW (approx. 1740 PS), two Schottel rudder propellers. It is used in Szczecin.

Fair play v

Fairplay V (the second) in action on the nuclear ship Otto Hahn in the port of Hamburg in 1970

• Fairplay V (1901): Taken over from the HC Stülcken Sohn shipyard in 1901, 101 GRT, 313 kW (approx. 425 PS). In 1916 it was drafted into the Imperial Navy and initially taken over by the Baltic Sea network vehicle association. Later it was used by the “Vorposten Halbflottille West” and the “Sperrfahrzeugdivision Weser”. In 1919 it was returned to the shipping company. On February 10, 1930, the Fairplay V was pushed under water when used as a head tug and sank. The machinist trapped below deck died, the other crew members could be rescued. After lifting and repairs, the tractor started moving again. In 1931 it sank for the second time after a collision. It was salvaged and repaired at the Oelkers shipyard. In 1938 it sank for the third time. This time, too, it was lifted and repaired. In 1939, the Kriegsmarine called him in for use at the Kriegsmarine shipyard in Kiel. In 1940 this tug was also planned for use by the “Company Sea Lion”. After 1945 it was initially supposed to be delivered to Greece, but then came back to the shipping company. On October 25, 1957, the Fairplay V came under the Argentine freighter "Rio San Juan" during a mission in Hamburg between Tollerort and the coal ship port and sank. Three of the five crew members died. The tug was recovered and then had to be canceled.
• Fairplay V (1961): built in 1961 at the Theodor Buschmann shipyard, 94 GRT, 441 kW (approx. 600 hp), with Kort nozzle. The tractor was sold to Imprese Ing.Sparaco Spartaco SA in Rome in 1981 .
• Fairplay V (1983): built in 1983 at the Max Sieghold shipyard in Bremerhaven, 208 GT, 1280 kW (approx. 1740 PS). Relocated from Hamburg to Rostock in 2006.

Fair play VI

Fairplay VI in the port of Hamburg

• Fairplay VI (1901): taken over by Janssen & Schmilinsky in 1901, 68 GRT, 236 kW (approx. 321 hp). In 1914 she was drafted into the Imperial Navy and initially used as a tender for the auxiliary minesweeping division in Cuxhaven, from 1918 onwards. In 1917/18, the artist Hans Gustav Bötticher - known under the name Joachim Ringelnatz - was in command of Fairplay VI. In 1919 the navy returned it to the shipping company. In 1940 she was drafted into the navy, she was planned for use with the "Company Sea Lion", returned to the shipping company in 1942 after the latter gave up. It is not known when it was retired.
• Fairplay VI (1957): Newly built in 1957 by the Theodor Buschmann shipyard, 136 GRT, 588 kW (approx. 800 PS). It was equipped with a variable pitch propeller in a Kort nozzle. The shipping company sold them to Scheepvaart & Handelsbedrijf Vios BV in Papendrecht in the Netherlands in 1978 .
• Fairplay VI (1992): built in 1992 by the Mützelfeldtwerft in Cuxhaven, 225 GRT and 2250 kW (3060 PS). She was temporarily deployed in Rostock, her home port is Hamburg.

Fair Play VII

• Fairplay VI I (1906): built in 1906 by the Stettiner Oderwerke, 90 GRT and 276 kW (approx. 376 hp), with a helm on the observation deck . In 1914 she was drafted into the Imperial Navy and used by the auxiliary minesweeping division in Cuxhaven. In 1915 it was returned to the shipping company. In 1940 drafted by the Navy, planned for use with the "Company Sea Lion". On October 27, 1940, she was lost during war-related salvage work.

Model of the second Fairplay VII in 2009

• Fairplay VI I (1942): In 1942 a new Fairplay VII was taken over by Casco Gebr. Sander, NV Scheepswerft, Delfzijl . It comprised 175 GRT and developed 698 kW (approx. 950 hp). On February 2, 1959, she fell in salvage operations at the Brammer sandbank as the Fairplay I . Both ships were lifted, repaired and started up again. In 1970 the shipping company sold it to Belgium for demolition.
• Fairplay VII (1959): The Fairplay II , 136 BRT and 736 kW (approx. 1000 hp), newly built in 1959 by the Theodor Buschmann shipyard , was converted in 1972, converted to a Kort nozzle drive and renamed Fairplay VII . In 1990 it was sold to Klass Meijer, Delfzijl Netherlands.
• Fairplay VII (1992): built in 1992 by the Mützelfeldtwerft in Cuxhaven, 225 GRT and 2250 kW (3060 PS), is used in Rostock.

Fair play VIII

• Fairplay VIII (1906): built in 1906 by the Stettiner Oderwerke, 90 GRT and 257 kW (approx. 350 hp), with a helm on the observation deck. During a towing operation on December 23, 1908 on the Elbe, near Brunshausen, together with Fairplay III , overrun and sunk, the ship could be lifted and repaired. In 1914 she was drafted into the Imperial Navy and initially used by the auxiliary minesweeping division in Cuxhaven, and from 1918 as a blocking vehicle. In 1919 it was returned to the shipping company. In 1939 she was again drafted into the Navy and used at the Warnemünde Marine Equipment and Repair Company. In 1940 this tug was also planned for use by the "Company Sea Lion", then it was moved to the Kriegsmarine shipyard in Kiel, from 1942 to the Naval Equipment and Repair Company in Swinoujscie, in 1944 to the Holtenau coast guard and in 1945 to the Holtenau canal watch department. In July 1945 the tug was returned to the shipping company by the Allies. In 1962 it came to the Walter Ritscher company for demolition.

Fairplay VIII (the second), as a museum ship at Sandtorkai, traditional ship port

• Fairplay VIII (1962): built in 1962 by the Theodor Buschmann shipyard, 98 GRT, 441 kW (approx. 600 hp). The head office of the tractor was relocated to Rostock in 1990. From 2004 he came to Stralsund, then to Wismar. In 2009, the Hamburg Maritime Foundation took overthe tugboat as a museum ship in the traditional ship harbor at Sandtorkai .

Fair play IX

• Fairplay IX (1910): built in 1910 at the Janssen & Schmilinsky shipyard, 74 GRT and 250 kW (approx. 340 hp). In 1914 she was drafted into the Imperial Navy and initially used by the auxiliary minesweeping division in Cuxhaven, and from 1918 as a blocking vehicle. In 1919 the navy returned it to the shipping company. In 1939 drafted by the Navy and deployed at the Cuxhaven Naval Equipment Center. In July 1945 the tug was returned to the shipping company by the Allies. In 1966 he came to the company Rudolf Harmsdorff Wasserbau in Lübeck for demolition .
• Fairplay IX (1971):
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  Built in 1971 at the F. Schichau GmbH shipyard in Bremerhaven, 834 BRT and 2650 kW (approx. 3600 PS). This powerful deep-sea tug is designed for worldwide use. In May 1988, Fairplay IX was occupied and kidnapped by pirates off Manila . These were supporters of the former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos who tried to get the tugboat into their possession as nationally owned. After two weeks wandering through Taiwan and Japan , the ship was released in Hong Kong. It does not have a fixed location, its home port is Hamburg.

Fair play X

• Fairplay X (1911): built in 1911 at the Janssen & Schmilinsky shipyard, 159 GRT and 452 kW (approx. 615 hp), and was thus the most powerful tug in the port of Hamburg at that time. In 1914 it was rented by the Imperial Navy and used as a restricted traffic vehicle. In 1919 the navy returned it to the shipping company. In 1937 it ran aground during salvage work on the schooner Duhnen , but could be made afloat again and repaired. (While trying to come to the rescue of the Duhnen and the Fairplay X , the Reichsmarine test boat Welle capsized and sank with its entire crew of 25 men.) Lucy Borchardt took this tug with her to emigrate to London in 1938, where it drove under the British Flag and under the name Fairplay One . It was badly damaged by a mine hit in 1944, but could still be kept going. In 1950 the shipping company transferred him back to Hamburg, where he was briefly given the number Fairplay XX . It was scrapped in the same year at the shipyard Theodor Buschmann up to the Bais and as Fairplay I rebuilt.
• Fairplay X (1941): In 1941, the shipping company took over the tractor Marie II as new Fairplay X . This ship with 141 GRT and 330 kW (approx. 450 HP) was built in 1918 at the Van de Knij & van de Rees NV shipyard in Dordrecht and used as a mine clearing boat for the Dutch Navy. In 1940 it sank after a mine hit, was lifted by the German Navy and put into service as "LAZ 47". On September 17, 1940, the ship sank again after a collision. It was recovered and repaired and given to the Fairplay shipping company on March 6, 1941, but remained in use with the salvage ship association of the Navy until the end of the war. It was then operated by Fairplay until 1965 and was then sold to the Rudolf Harmsdorff Wasserbau company in Lübeck for demolition.
• Fairplay X (1965): built in 1965 by the Theodor Buschmann shipyard, sold to France in 1966.
• Fairplay X (1967): built in 1967 by the Theodor Buschmann shipyard, 298 GRT and 1471 kW (approx. 2000 hp), it was considered to be the largest and most modern tug built by a Hamburg shipyard at the time and was the first with the worldwide one Abducts were made. It marks the expansion of the business areas of the Fairplay shipping company to include services in the offshore business . In 1971, while a pontoon was being towed through the Strait of Gibraltar, this annex was rammed by a submarine of the American Navy during an emergency surfacing moneuver. In 1984 she was washed ashore during a sea rescue operation off Land's End / Cornwall in bad weather. The stranded ship was able to be brought back into the water after 14 days by dredging a fairway. In 1987 she was sold to a Spanish fishing company.

Tug Fairplay X (the fifth of that name) in the port of Rotterdam, 2004

• Fairplay X (1988): built in 1988 by Cochrane Shipbuilders in Goole / Great Britain as “Lady Sybill”, bought in 1999 by the Fairplay shipping company and stationed as Fairplay X in Rotterdam. Sold after 2004.
• Fairplay X (2009): ASD tug built in 2009 by the Astilleros Armon shipyard in Navia and used in Hamburg. He is a sister ship of fair play I .

Fair play XI

• Fairplay XI (1912): built in 1912 at the Janssen & Schmilinsky shipyard, 74 GRT and 250 kW (340 PS). In 1914 it was drafted by the Imperial Navy and used in the Jade blocking vehicle division; from 1916 it was a network blocking vehicle for the Baltic Sea network blocking association. The tug was returned on an unknown date after the war. In 1939 drafted by the Navy and deployed at the Cuxhaven Naval Equipment Center. In 1940 this tug was planned for use by the "Company Sea Lion". In July 1945 the tug was returned to the shipping company by the Allies, but had to be resold to the Hamburg company Ritscher for demolition.
• Fairplay XI (1964): In 1964 the Aro tug, built in 1963 at the Schulte & Bruns shipyard in Emden , was purchased by Fairplay, it comprised 172 BRT and 882 kW (approx. 1200 hp) and was named Fairplay XI . On January 31, 1966 it sank after a collision off Brunsbüttel , could be lifted, repaired and put back into motion. In 1975 it was rebuilt and equipped with a Kort nozzle. In 1989 it was sold via Belgium to Panama. 1990: to Multraship (Terneuzen) and MULTRATUG 5. 2005: NDJI-NDJI (Congo)
• Fairplay XI (1988): built in 1988 by Cochrane Shipbuilders in Great Britain as "Lady Theresa", it comprises 175 GRT and has an output of 1507 kW (approx. 2050 PS). Fairplay bought it from Wijsmuller Marine UK in 2000 and used it in Rostock. She is a sister ship of the "Lady Sybill", which was taken over in 1999 as Fairplay X. In 2006 she came to Stettin from Rostock.

Fair play XII

• Fairplay XII (1920): In 1920 the Navy replaced the sunken tug “Achilles” with the tug “Johann” built in 1915 by the Juliane shipyard in the Netherlands. It was named Fairplay XII , had a measurement of 81 GRT and an output of 294 kW (approx. 400 hp). In 1939 he was drafted into the Navy and deployed to the Laboe Coast Guard . In 1940 this tug was planned for use by the "Company Sea Lion". It is not known when it was returned to the shipping company. On November 7, 1952, he sank while assisting the Hapag freighter “Brandenburg”. It was lifted again, repaired and put into operation. In 1953, the Fairplay XII sank again during a mission, a deckhand was killed. It could be lifted and repaired again. In 1961 it was sold to the H. Dockerill company in Hamburg for demolition.
• Fairplay XII (1965): built in 1965 by the Theodor Buschmann shipyard, 99 GRT, 441 kW (approx. 600 PS), MAN diesel engine, the ship was sold on after a short time.
• Fairplay XII (1969): built in 1969 by the Theodor Buschmann shipyard, 173 GRT and 938 kW (approx. 1275 hp), sold to Croatia in 2001 as an auxiliary ship for tuna fishing.
• Fairplay XII (1994): ASD tugboat built in 1994 at the Hitzler shipyard, taken over in 2007 by the shipping company J. Johannsen & Sohn from Lübeck, engine power 2500 kW (approx. 3400 hp), 45 ton haulage train, used in Rotterdam.

Fair Play XIII

• Built in 1912 at the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg for the Imperial Navy, taken over by Richard Borchardt as Fairplay XIII in 1923 . It had a measurement of 58 GRT and 221 kW (approx. 300 PS). In 1939 she was drafted into the Navy and used at the Warnemünde naval equipment and repair company. In 1940 this tug was planned for use by the “Company Sea Lion”, which did not take place. The ship was moved to the Kriegsmarine shipyard in Kiel, and then used at the Swinoujscie naval equipment and repair company . In July 1945 the Allies returned the tug to the shipping company. In 1950 it was sold to the company Eisen & Metall in Hamburg, drove for another six years under the name "Wolfgang" and in 1956 was scrapped.

Fair play XIV

• Fairplay XIV (1922): built by Janssen & Schmilinsky in 1922, 261 GRT and 609 kW (approx. 828 PS). Lucy Borchardt was able to take this tug with her to London in 1938, where it sailed under the British flag under the name Fairplay two . After the outbreak of war it was used by the British Navy as a rescue boat and in 1940 "due to the effects of the war it was completely lost".
• Fairplay XIV (1942): In 1942 the shipping company took over a tug from Casko Koppmann, Dordrecht and named it Fairplay XIV . It comprised 163 GRT and had an output of 552 kW (approx. 750 hp). It was sold to the British shipping company R & JH Res Ltd. in 1954 . sold in Bristol and ran there under the name "Exegarth" until 1966.
• Fairplay XIV (1955): built in 1955 at the Theodor Buschmann shipyard, 136 GRT, 588 kW (approx. 800 PS). It was sold to Ramar Haime in Tel Aviv in 1983 .
• Fairplay XIV (1970): built in 1970 at the F. Schichau shipyard in Bremerhaven, operated as "Hanseatic" for the Petersen & Alpers shipping company until 1986 and was bought by Fairplay in 1987. It comprised 879 GRT and had an output of 2647 kW (approx. 3600 hp). The ship was the shipping company's first to be re-flagged to save labor costs and to fly the flag of Antigua and Barbuda . It received a Filipino crew under a German ship command. In 2007 Fairplay sold them to the Diavlos Maritime shipping company in Piraeus .
• Fairplay XIV (2009): Built in 2009 by Astilleros Armon, Navia, ASD tugs, sister ship of fair play I . It is used in Rotterdam and Antwerp.

Fair play XV

• Fairplay XV (1923): built by Janssen & Schmilinsky in 1923, 116 GRT and 435 kW (approx. 591 PS). In 1940 she was drafted into the Navy for the "Operation Sea Lion" service. After this was not carried out, the tug was used in 1941 at the Kriegsmarinewerft Brest and in 1942 at the commander of the North Sea security forces. It was returned to the shipping company in the same year. It is not known when the tractor was taken out of service.
• Fairplay XV (1975): Built in 1975 at the Max Sieghold shipyard in Bremerhaven, 179 GRT, 1706 kW (approx. 2320 PS), with two Schottel rudder propellers. The tractor's head office is relocated to Rostock in 1990.

Fair play XVI

• The tug Hector , built in 1896 at the Stülcken shipyard and part of the fleet since the merger with Pauls & Blohm in 1905, was renamed Fairplay XVI in 1930 . It comprised 52 GRT and after the conversion in 1927 had an output of 302 kW (approx. 410 hp). In 1956 it was sold to the Altenwerder shipyard, the former Köhlbrand shipyard by Paul Berendsohn for demolition.

Fair play XVII

• Fairplay XVII (1932): In 1932 Lucy Borchardt bought the tug "Hela" from the Franz Preukschat shipping company in Gdansk, and it was named Fairplay XVII . It was built in 1909 at the Janssen & Schmilinsky shipyard for the Portland cement factory in Hemmoor an der Oste, comprised 101 GRT and had an output of 206 kW (approx. 280 hp). In 1940 he was drafted into the Navy, and was scheduled for use with the "Sea Lion Company". Instead he came to the coast guard station in Laboe, from 1944 to the coast guard station in Holtenau. From 1945 he was employed in the canal guard department in Holtenau. In July 1945 the Allies returned the tug to the shipping company. It was sold to Norway in 1957, renamed "Fritz", and canceled a year later.
• Fairplay XVII (1993): This ASD tug was built in 1993 at the Roland shipyard in Bremen, has an output of 3000 kW (4080 PS) and is used in Antwerp.

Fair play XVIII

• In 1932 Lucy Borchardt bought the tug Johannes Schupp from the Johannes Schupp shipping company. It was built in 1903 by the Le Vulcain Belge shipyard in Hoboken , comprised 146 GRT and had an output of 441 kW (approx. 600 hp). In 1939 he was drafted into the Navy, deployed to Netzsperrverband I, and from 1942 to Netzsperrgruppe Nord. In 1945 the Allies first delivered the tug to Norway, and in 1946 it was shipped to the Soviet Union . Nothing is known about the further whereabouts.

Fair play XIX

• This tug was used by "Fairplay Towage" in London in 1947 as Fairplay Three , brought to Hamburg in 1950 and added to the fleet under the name Fairplay XIX . There was a tug in 1912 at the shipyard Ferguson Bros in Glasgow as "Flying Buzzard" for the Clyde Shipping Co. had been built. In 1951 the shipping company sold it to the company Eisen & Metall Lehr & Co. in Lübeck for demolition .

Fair play XX

• In 1950 the former Fairplay X , which had operated in Great Britain as Fairplay One since 1938 , was brought back to Hamburg and operated for a few months under the name Fairplay XX . Then, it was broken up and at the shipyard of Theodor Buschmann to the base as fair play I rebuilt. It comprised 199 GRT and developed 441 kW (approx. 600 hp).

Fair play 21

• In 1998 this ASD tug was the first of a new series to be taken over by the Spanish shipyard Constructiones Navales Santodomingo in Vigo after two years of construction. It has 496 GT, develops 3287 kW (approx. 4470 hp) and is powered by two Schottel rudder propellers. It is designed for both port and offshore use, sails under the flag of Antigua and Barbuda and was deployed in Rotterdam. Since 2001, like the sister ship Fairplay 24 , it has been chartered out to the Dutch tug company Smit on a long-term basis. Through what is known as technical cooperation, operating costs are to be reduced and the capacities of both companies increased.

Fairplay-22 in the port of Hamburg, 2006

Fair play 22

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• Taken over in 1998 by the Spanish shipyard Constructiones Navales Santodomingo in Vigo after two years of construction, 496 GT, 3287 kW (approx. 4470 PS) and Schottel propulsion, designed for both port and offshore applications, sails under the flag of Antigua and Barbuda and was used by Fairplay Towage BV in Rotterdam. In 2006 she was moved from Rotterdam to Hamburg, in 2009 she came back to Rotterdam. She is a sister ship of the Fairplay-21 . On November 11, 2010, she sank during an operation in the port of Rotterdam. On November 16, the Fairplay 22 was lifted by the floating crane “Taklift 7” from Smit Salvage after it had been towed into the Waalhaven in Rotterdam while capsized.

Fair play 23

• Taken over in 1998 by the Spanish shipyard Constructiones Navales Santodomingo in Vigo after two years of construction, 496 GT, 3287 kW (approx. 4470 PS) and Schottel propulsion, designed for both port and offshore applications, sails under the flag of Antigua and Barbuda and is used in Rotterdam. She is a sister ship of Fairplay 21 .

Fair play 24

• Acquired in 1998 by the Spanish shipyard Constructiones Navales Santodomingo in Vigo after two years of construction, 496 GT, 3287 kW (approx. 4470 PS) and Schottel propulsion, designed for both port and offshore applications, sails under the flag of Antigua and Barbuda and was used by Fairplay Towage BV in Rotterdam. Since 2001, like the sister ship Fairplay 21 , she has been chartered out to the Dutch tug company Smit on a long-term basis.

Fair play 25

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• Built in 2000 at the Astilleros Zamacona SA shipyard in Santurce ( Santurtzi , Basque Country, Spain), 499 GT and 4044 kW (approx. 5500 PS). The performance of this tug, as well as that of the Fairplay-26 , were seen as a quantum leap in the development of the shipping company, both ships not only have more engine power and a higher draft, but are also equipped with fire extinguishing systems. From 2001 onwards she was stationed as an offshore salvage tug by the newly established Coastal Protection Working Group in Sassnitz . For this purpose it was brought under the German flag.

Fair play 26

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• Built in 2001 at the Astilleros Zamacona SA shipyard in Santurce (Spain), 499 GT and 4044 kW (approx. 5500 PS), sister ship of Fairplay 25 . She is stationed by the Coastal Protection Working Group in Rostock as a sea rescue tug.

Fair play 27

• Fairplay-27 (2006): In 2006, Fairplay took over as a new building from the Norwegian tug shipping company Bugser og Berging in Oslo. It was an ASD tug with Schottel drive, which sailed under the flag of Antigua and Barbuda and was used in Rotterdam. In 2007 this tug went back to the Norwegian shipping company.
• Fairplay-27 (2009): ASD tug built by the Spanish shipyard Astilleros Armon in 2009, with an output of 4000 kW (5440 hp) and a pulling force of 75 tons. It is used in Rotterdam.

Fair play 28

• Built in 2006 by the Spanish shipyard Astilleros Armon for the Slovenian shipping company Adria Tow in Koper , this tug was used as the Fairplay-28 in Rotterdam from 2007 to 2008 . On July 31, 2008 he was returned to the Adria Tow and sails for them under the name Zeus .

Fair play 29

• The tug was built in 2007 by the Spanish shipyard Astilleros Armon for the Slovenian shipping company Adria Tow in Koper and at times drove for the Fairplay shipping company as Fairplay-29 .

Fair play 30

• Built in 2008 by Astilleros Armon, 787 GT, engine power 5300 kW (approx. 7200 HP), deep-sea tug that is used worldwide.

Fair play 31

• Built in 2008 by Astilleros Armon, 787 GT, engine power 5300 kW (approx. 7200 PS), deep-sea tug stationed in Rotterdam.

Other ships of the shipping company

In addition to the Fairplay fleet, the shipping company has also occasionally taken over tugs that were not incorporated into the series of names or only later. This also includes the first two tugs from Carl Tiedemann's predecessor company. At times, the Fairplay Towage also took over motor ships, cargo ships or other work ships without a tug function when they invested in further port services.

Ships from Carl Tiedemann's time before 1895

Picador : the company's first tug, bought in 1891 by Sanders & Co. under the name of Assistent , built in 1889, 28 BRT, renamed to Picador . This tug was sold on in 1900 and was in service in the Frankfurt area until the 1950s under the name of Assistent II .

Auguste : Ordered from the Sachsenbert shipyard in Rosslau on the Elbe in 1892, 17.7 meters long, 4.52 meters wide, 44.2 GRT and with a drive power of 150 hp. It was resold in 1900 and came to the Portland Cement Factory in Hanover under the name "Hemmoor I".

Ships from the merger with the stevedoring company Pauls and Blohm in 1905

Castor : built in Hamburg in 1887, 45.5 GRT and 220 hp. The tractor was sold to the Mannheim company Grün & Bilfinger in 1910 .

Pollux : built in Hamburg in 1887, 45.5 GRT and 270 hp. The tractor was sold to the Mannheim company Grün & Bilfinger in 1910 .

Forward : built in 1871 by Norddeutsche Schiffbau AG in Kiel, taken over by Pauls and Blohm in 1888, 49 GRT and 160 hp. The tug was sold to August Borsinsky in Kiel in 1910.

Pauls & Blohm : built in 1888 at the Stülckenwerft for own account, bought from the company in 1889, 39 BRT and 165 hp. The tractor was sold to Adolf von Lieth in 1908 and continued to operate under the name “Hamburg”.

Hector : built in 1896 at the Stülckenwerft, 52 GRT and 240 hp. In 1914 the ship was taken over by the Imperial Navy and used at the shipyard in Wilhelmshaven, and in 1918 it was returned to the shipping company. In 1927 the ship was equipped with a larger engine with an output of 410 hp. In 1930 it was renamed Fairplay XVI and continued under that name until 1956.

Achilles : built at the Stülckenwerft in 1896, 52 GRT and 240 hp. In 1914 the ship was taken over by the Imperial Navy and used at the shipyard in Wilhelmshaven, from November 1916 it was used as a traffic steamer for the II., Later the III. Squadron of the deep sea fleet. On September 21, 1918, it got into a submarine network lock in front of Amrum and sank.

Ships from Richard Borchardt's time 1905–1930

Lucy : fishing cutter, built in 1891 at the Kiel-Gaarden shipyard, 13.4 meters long. It was purchased towards the end of the First World War and used for fishing, in particular to improve the nutritional situation of the employees. After the war, in 1919, the cutter was sold again.

Lucy : Soul light without self-propulsion, 190 GRT, was commissioned by Richard Borchardt in 1921 from the Oelkers shipyard in Wilhelmsburg. It should serve to expand the business beyond port assistance. The expectations were not fulfilled and the lighter was sold again in 1922.

Fairoil : tank lighters without self-propulsion, 801 GRT, was bought in 1928 from the Chr. Ruthof shipyard in Mainz-Kastell and sold on to France in 1935.

Ships from the time of Lucy Borchardt 1930–1938

Atid : Motor ship, 509 GRT, 600 HP, was built in 1921 at the Norderwerft in Hamburg and sailed as “Vossfelde” and “Mabel Violet”. In 1934 it was at the Berendsohn demolition yard in Altenwerder and was bought by Lucy Borchardt. A conversion took place at the Krupp Germania shipyard in Kiel. In 1935 the ship was handed over to the Atid Navigation Company in Haifa.

Amalie : Cargo ship, 999 GRT and 838 HP, built in 1902 by Sunderland Shipbuilding Co. in Great Britain for the shipping company Kirsten in Hamburg, ran under the name "Laninia", bought in 1935 by Lucy Borchardt. In 1935 the ship was handed over to the Atid Navigation Company in Haifa and continued to operate under the name "Amal".

Alisia : cargo ship, 911 BRT, 750 HP, built in 1911 at the Henry Koch shipyard in Lübeck, ran under the name "Mosel" for the Kirsten shipping company; Bought in 1935 and resold to the Atid Navigation Company in Haifa.

Richard Borchardt : Steamship, 555 GRT, 900 PS, built in 1906 at the Henry Koch shipyard in Lübeck, ran for the Hamburg shipping company August Bolten, after various changes of owner and name from 1924 at KWW Sturm in Hamburg under the name "Brigitte Sturm" . Bought by Fairplay in 1936 and named Richard Borchardt . In 1938 it sank in heavy seas in the North Sea.

Parma : four-masted barque, built in 1902 at the Rodger & Co. shipyard in Glasgow for the Laeisz shipping company in Hamburg as part of the Flying P-Liner series , was operated by Ruben de Cloux from 1931 under the name “Arrow”. In 1936 it was bought by Fairplay and got its old name back. Since the transaction with the Atid Navigation Company in Haifa failed, it was launched as the Hulk .

Lucy Borchardt : Steamship, 1300 GRT, 950 HP, 1905 by the Flensburger Schiffsbau Gesellschaft for the shipping company Rob. M. Sloman built, ran under the name “Florenz”, resold to Great Britain in 1920, later to DDG Hansa and DG Neptun in Bremen. In 1937 the ship was bought by Fairplay. Lucy Borchardt was able to take the steamer with her when she emigrated in 1938, and in the same year it was sold to the Commonwealth Steam Tug Co. Ltd. sold.

Ships of the Fairplay Towing & Shipping London 1938–1950

Fairplay one : was the former Hamburg tug Fairplay X and was transferred to London as emigration goods by Lucy Borchard in 1938. From 1939 the British Navy used it as a salvage tug, in 1944 it was badly damaged by a mine hit, but could be repaired again and remained in service. In 1950 he came back to Hamburg and drove there for half a year as Fairplay XX . After the partial dismantling, a new Fairplay I will be built on its hull .

Fairplay two , the first: was the former Hamburg tug Fairplay XIV and was transferred to London as emigration goods by Lucy Borchard in 1938. The British Navy also used this tug as a rescue tug, in 1940 it was destroyed by war damage.

Fairplay two , the second: built in 1944 and bought by Lucy Borchard in 1946, it sank off Vlissingen in 1947 and could be lifted and repaired. It was then sold to Morocco and demolished there in 1978.

Fairplay three : tugboat built in 1912, bought by Lucy Borchard in 1947, transferred to Hamburg in 1950, where it was added to the fleet as Fairplay XIX .

Falcon : cargo ship built in 1892, bought by Lucy Borchard in 1939, resold in 1944.

Mercia : Cargo ship built in 1889, bought by Lucy Borchard in 1939, was totaled in 1942 by a mine hit.

Steelopolis : Cargo ship built in 1896, bought by Lucy Borchard in 1939, demolished in 1949.

Triton : Cargo ship built in 1900, bought by Lucy Borchard in 1939, was still registered with the Fairplay in 1949, its whereabouts are unknown.

Wolfhound : Cargo ship built in 1904, bought by Lucy Borchard in 1939, resold in 1944.

Fred Borchard : Purchased by Lucy Borchard in 1949, lost in 1950 off Kemi / Finland.

Ships from the time of Kurt Borchard 1950–1997

Fairwind : Motor ship, 2770 GRT, 2000 HP, built in 1956 at the Schlieker shipyard, was used for the re-entry of the shipping company in the freight business. In 1965 it was sold to Norway.

Fairway : Motor ship, 1450 GRT, 1400 HP, built in 1953 at the Sietas shipyard as MS "Ferdia", bought in 1956 by the Fairplay shipping company.

Fairwood : Motor ship, 1945 GRT, 1200 HP, the ship was built in 1944 by Lübecker Maschinenbau GmbH as "Celia" and had to be delivered to Great Britain after the end of the war. In 1947 it was acquired by the Fairplay Towage in London and renamed Richard Borchard . In 1960 it was transferred from there to the Fairplay shipping company in Hamburg. In 1963 the ship came to Norway for demolition.

Lucy Borchard : Motor ship, 4580 GRT, 4200 HP, built in 1962 by Helsingör Skibsvaerft og Maskinbyggeri, called "Heering Rose", was taken over by Fairplay in 1969 and sold to Venezuela in 1978.

Rosenort : Tug, 127 GRT, 750 HP, built in 1967 at the VEB shipyard Edgar André in Magdeburg, taken over in 1993 with the takeover of BBB by Fairplay, sold to Croatia in 2002.

Stubbenhuk : tug, 53 GRT, 650 HP, built in 1980 at the Johann Oelkers shipyard in Hamburg, taken over by the Grain Elevator Company Hamburg in 1995, today used as a ship of the Fairplay Towage in Wolgast

Stralsund : Tug, 26 GRT, 580 HP, built in 1992 by Delta Ship Yard in Sliedrecht / Netherlands, taken over in 1996, today used as a ship of the Fairplay Towage in Stralsund

Ships of the Fairplay-Petersen & Alpers Seatowage 1972–1986

From 1972 to 1986 it came about in cooperation with the shipping company Petersen & Alpers for the offshore business. Three lighters were purchased under the name Fairplay-Petersen & Alspers Seatowage GmbH :

Fairalp I : Self-propelled soul light for use in the offshore sector, built in 1971 by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG in Kiel, taken over by Fairplay-Petersen & Alpers Seatowage in 1975 . It ran aground off Visby in Sweden in 1981 and was sold after it was recovered.

Fairalp II : Self-propelled soul lighter for use in the offshore sector, built in 1976 by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG in Kiel, after the merger company was liquidated in 1988, the lighter became the property of the Fairplay shipping company. In 2001 it was sold in Norway.

Fairalp III : Self-propelled soul light for use in the offshore sector, built in 1976 by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG in Kiel. In 1988, after the liquidation of the merged company, the lighter was sold to Italy.

Accidents and misfortunes

• On December 23, 1908, during a towing operation on the Elbe, near Brunshausen near Stade, the pre-tensioned tugs Fairplay III and Fairplay VIII were overrun by the British barque Forteviot when it unexpectedly started moving. Both tugs sank, five sailors died. The ships could be lifted and repaired.
• In 1923 the Fairplay II capsized while assisting the Dutch freighter “Dinteldijk”. It could be lifted, repaired and started up again.
• On February 10, 1930, the Fairplay V was pushed under water by its bow swell when used as a head tug of the cargo ship Deike Rickmers and sank. The machinist trapped below deck died, the other crew members could be rescued. The tug was raised, repaired and started up again.
• In 1931 the tug Fairplay V sank for the second time after a collision. It was salvaged and repaired at the Oelkers shipyard .
• In 1937, the Fairplay X ran aground during salvage work on the Duhnen steamer . It could be repaired and made afloat.
• On January 29, 1938, the steamer Richard Borchardt sank in heavy seas in the North Sea, probably west of the lightship Borkumriff .
• In 1938, the tug Fairplay V sank a third time during a mission on the Hohenfels cargo ship . This time, too, it could be lifted and repaired.
• On November 7, 1952, the Fairplay XII sank while assisting the Hapag freighter Brandenburg . The ship was lifted, repaired and could be used again.
• In 1953, the Fairplay XII sank again on one mission. A deckhand was killed. The tug could be raised again and repaired.
• On September 6, 1954, the Fairplay I was overrun by the passenger ship Italia at Steubenhöft / Cuxhaven and sank. The five-year-old son of the captain and the radio operator died. The tug was lifted after four days. After the repair, it got back on its feet.
• On October 25, 1957, the Fairplay V got under the Argentine freighter Rio San Juan during a mission between Tollerort and the coal ship port and sank. Three of the five crew members died. The tug was recovered and then had to be canceled.
• On December 9, 1958, the Fairplay III was overrun by an assistant on the Norwegian ship Baxel off Steinwerder and sank. The crew members could be saved. The ship was started up again after it was lifted.
• On February 2, 1959, the tugs Fairplay I and Fairplay VII sank during salvage work on the Norwegian tanker Solfonn , which ran aground on the Brammer sandbank on the Lower Elbe . The machinist of the Fairplay VII was killed. All other crew members could be saved. Both ships were later lifted, repaired and started up again.
• On January 31, 1966, the tug Fairplay XI sank off Brunsbüttel after a collision with the Norwegian freighter Sote Jael . It could be lifted, repaired, and started up again.
• In 1971, the towing trailer of the Fairplay X , which was pulling a pontoon through the Strait of Gibraltar , was rammed by a submarine of the US Navy during an emergency descent moneuver.
• In 1984 the Fairplay X was washed ashore during a sea rescue mission off Land's End (Cornwall) in bad weather. After digging a fairway through the sandy area, the stranded ship could be brought back into the water after 14 days.
• On November 11, 2010, the Fairplay 22 capsized in stormy seas during a mission for the ferry Stena Britannica in the port of Rotterdam .

literature

• Frank Bajohr : "Aryanization" in Hamburg. The displacement of Jewish entrepreneurs 1933–1945 (= Hamburg Contributions to Social and Contemporary History , 35). Christians, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-7672-1302-8 (also: Hamburg, Univ., Diss. 1997).
• Ulrich Bauche (ed.): The history of the Jews in Hamburg . An exhibition by the Museum of Hamburg History from November 8, 1991 to March 29, 1992. 3 volumes. Dölling and Galitz Verlag, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-926174-31-5 .
• Jan Heitmann: Fairplay tugboat shipping company Richard Borchard - ship assistance and tug shipping through the ages . Elbe-Spree-Verlag, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-931129-12-8 .
• Hans J. Witthöft : fair play. This is what the name stands for, a chronicle of a German tug shipping company . Koehlers Verlags-Gesellschaft, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7822-0973-1 .
• “The arm wrestling continues” · Even after the takeover of Bugsier, fair play is preparing for difficult times . In: Daily port report of July 13, 2018, special supplement Maritime Services, p. 6, interview with Walter Collet; DVV Media Group, Hamburg 2018, ISSN  2190-8753

Web links

Commons : Fairplay Reederei  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Homepage Fairplay Towage
• Fairplay tugboat shipping company Richard Borchard GmbH
• The Fairplay tugs I, III, X and XIV
• Company history Tiedemann (PDF; 43 kB)
• Michael Hertel: The smugglers . In: Magazine 11
• Rebekka Großmann: "Mother Borchardt" - a Jewish shipowner . In: Hamburg Key Documents on German-Jewish History , January 9, 2018, doi: 10.23691 / jgo: article-168.de.v1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Consolidated annual financial statements of the Fairplay tugboat shipping company Richard Borchard limited liability company as of December 31, 2017
2. ↑ Consolidated annual financial statements of the Fairplay tugboat shipping company Richard Borchard limited liability company as of December 31, 2017
3. ↑ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: The merger should stabilize the market position · The merger with Bugsier is perfect · 100 tugs in the fleet · Expansion in the Baltic and Mediterranean . In: Daily port report from November 14, 2017, pp. 1 + 3
4. ↑ Hans Jürgen Witthöft: Fair play - that's what the name stands for. Chronicle of a German tugboat company , p. 32
5. ↑ Ulrich Bauche (ed.): The history of the Jews in Hamburg . Hamburg 1991, p. 450
6. ^ Frank Bajohr: "Aryanization" in Hamburg. The displacement of Jewish entrepreneurs 1933–1945 , Hamburg 1997, p. 262
7. ↑ Martin Kopp: Fairplay and Bugsier attack Europe's tractor market. In: Hamburger Abendblatt , November 14, 2017, accessed on November 14, 2017
8. ↑ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: The merger should stabilize the market position · The merger with Bugsier is perfect · 100 tugs in the fleet · Expansion in the Baltic and Mediterranean . In: Daily port report from November 14, 2017, pp. 1 + 3
9. ↑ Consolidated annual financial statements of the Fairplay tugboat shipping company Richard Borchard limited liability company as of December 31, 2017
10. ↑ Hans Jürgen Witthöft: Fair play - that's what the name stands for . Chronicle of a German haulage company, p. 10 f.
11. ↑ Fairplay I - Schottel ASD Tug. In: fairplay-towage.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
12. ↑ Fairplay Towage receives 3rd new building of a 4-series. In: fairplay-towage.de. Retrieved November 15, 2010 . 
13. ↑ Fairplay II - Schottel Tractor Tug. In: fairplay-towage.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
14. ↑ Fairplay III - Schottel ASD Tug. In: fairplay-towage.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
15. ↑ Fairplay IV - Schottel Tractor Tug. In: fairplay-towage.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
16. ↑ Fairplay V - Schottel Tractor Tug. In: fairplay-towage.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
17. ↑ Indina Woesthoff and Frank Woesthoff in Ringelnatz! a poet paints his world Wallstein Verlag 2000, ISBN 978-3892443377 , p. 41
18. ↑ Fairplay VI - Schottel Tractor Tug. In: fairplay-towage.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
19. ↑ Fairplay VII - Schottel Tractor Tug. In: fairplay-towage.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
20. ↑ Homepage Fairplay VIII. In: fairplay8.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
21. ↑ Fairplay IX - Single Screw Tug. In: fairplay-towage.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
22. ↑ Fairplay X - Schottel ASD tug. In: fairplay-towage.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
23. ↑ Fairplay XI - Twin Screw Tug. In: fairplay-towage.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
24. ↑ Fairplay XII - Schottel ASD Tug. In: fairplay-towage.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
25. ↑ Fairplay XIV - Schottel ASD tug. In: fairplay-towage.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
26. ↑ Fairplay XV- Schottel Tractor Tug. In: fairplay-towage.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
27. ↑ Fairplay XVII- Schottel ASD Tug. In: fairplay-towage.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
28. ↑ Fairplay 21 - Schottel ASD Tug. In: fairplay-towage.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
29. ↑ Fairplay 21 - 24. In: tugboats.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
30. ↑ Fairplay 22 - Schottel ASD Tug. In: fairplay-towage.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
31. ↑ Berging FAIRPLAY-22 in single phase. (No longer available online.) In: tugspotters.com. Archived from the original on January 22, 2016 ; Retrieved November 20, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
32. ↑ Fairplay 23 - Schottel ASD Tug. In: fairplay-towage.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
33. ↑ Fairplay 24 - Schottel ASD Tug. In: fairplay-towage.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
34. ↑ Fairplay-25 - Schottel ASD Tug. Fairplay Towage, accessed November 17, 2010 . 
35. ↑ Fairplay 26 - Schottel ASD Tug. In: fairplay-towage.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
36. ↑ Fairplay 27 - Schottel ASD Tug. In: fairplay-towage.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
37. ↑ Fairplay 29. In: seatowage.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
38. ↑ Fairplay 30 - Schottel ASD, anchor handling tug. In: fairplay-towage.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
39. ↑ Fairplay 30 is now the strongest tugboat. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
40. ↑ Fairplay 31 - Schottel ASD, anchor handling tug. In: fairplay-towage.de. Retrieved November 17, 2010 . 
41. ↑ Fairplay capsized 22 off Rotterdam . THB - German shipping newspaper.

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