The cargo ship was on 11 July 1966 as the fifteenth ship of the series its launch and was to Fiete Schulze named. On November 11, 1966, the Warnow shipyard delivered the ship with hull number 125 to the German shipping company Rostock. It was mainly used for tramping with West African ports.
Funeral service for the dead seafarers
The downfall
When avoiding the tropical cyclone Chloe the ship suffered in a low pressure area near the Azores -Insel São Miguel 40 ° list by going from the charge Eisenmasseln which punched through the ship's side. Not far from La Coruna sank the ship on September 21, 1967 at 1:35 pm at the position 45 ° 33 '0 " N , 10 ° 15' 0" W coordinates: 45 ° 33 '0 " N , 10 ° 15' 0" W . 14 men of the crew died in the sinking; 28 could be saved. Three of the surviving sailors were rescued by the West German ship Borussia . Since the poor state of health did not allow a handover on the high seas to the hurried international friendship , the rescued went ashore in Hamburg. In The Black Canal , a GDR propaganda program, this process was portrayed as the “kidnapping” of GDR citizens.
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literature
German shipping companies Volume 23 VEB Deutsche Seereederei Rostock Author collective Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen ISBN 3-928473-81-6 page 192
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