Fortuna (ship, 1909)
 The Fortuna jacked in the LWL Industrial Museum landscape of Henrichenburg boat lift
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The tugboat Fortuna from 1909 lies dry today as a museum ship on the bank of the upper water of the Henrichenburg ship lift in Waltrop .
history
The screw tugboat was built in 1909 as Max by the Wiemann brothers in Brandenburg an der Havel for the W. Gramens Berlin company. The tug is named as new building No. 108 in the shipyard's list of ships for the years 1901 to 1945. For the first few decades only a sketchy résumé with several changes of ownership is known. The first owner was a Belgian. In 1928 the tug was named Midgard with home port Oldenburg and owned by Midgard Deutsche Seeverkehrs-AG, founded in 1905 by the Bremen shipowner Adolf Vinnen in Nordenham . A relocation to Wesermünde took place in 1937, with the tug being renamed to Zufall .
In 1943 the name was changed to Helgoland (D1-559) with its hometown in Landsberg an der Warthe, today Gorzów Wielkopolski in Poland. In 1945 the ship remained in what was then the GDR and was acquired in 1948 by the brothers Arnold and Heinz Krone from Niegripp , who operated the ship as a tug until the early 1960s when one of the brothers died. Then the Helgoland was laid on the shore and used as a houseboat until 1974 .
In 1974 the ship was sold to the Dutch ship collector Binkey Kok, where it was re-registered in 1975 and subsequently renamed to its current name Fortuna . After that it took part in some promotional trips and festivals. This included the Rotterdam Maritiem in 1978 and, two years later, the Sail Amsterdam .
In 1985 Fortuna came to the LWL Industrial Museum . The ferry journey began in the Netherlands and from there crossed the Rhine , the Wesel-Datteln Canal and the Dortmund-Ems Canal . Because of the low bridges, the chimney with the existing equipment had to be repositioned each time it passed through. The tug was then demonstrated on various occasions. In 1987 the LWL industrial museum put the Fortuna under steam for the last time. She took part in a ship parade through West Berlin on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the city of Berlin .
In 1999 the Fortuna was put on land due to its poor state of preservation.
Structure of the tractor
The Fortuna is a typical canal tug due to its design, its dimensions and its machine performance, so that its 75 HP steam engine was sufficient for towing one or two barges on standing water.
Their superstructures begin at the bow with the skipper's cabin, which was later expanded with a structure with windows, toilets and kitchen. The wheelhouse is adjacent to it, followed by the 60 centimeter wide and 4.24 meter high folding chimney, the crew cabin below deck, the towing hook and finally the wooden exit to the crew cabin with simple wooden interior fittings aft . The depth of the ship's space between the lower edge of the upper fixed deck and the upper edge of the floor walls next to the keel pig is only about 1.63 meters on average.
In addition to the skipper, the crew consisted of a deckhand, a machinist and a stoker. A minimum of three men was required.
Technical specifications
The external dimensions of the tractor, built in 1909, are 17.5 meters long and 3.6 meters wide. The draft of the riveted all-steel hull is given as 1.4 meters, which results in a displacement of around 65 tons. A rubbing strip runs around the hull as protection against contact when mooring or when passing through locks. The load capacity was around 14 tons.
A horizontal flame tube boiler from the manufacturer Hermann Schmidt, Küstrin-Neustadt, was used as the central steam boiler in the ship . In 1957 it was replaced by an exchange boiler built in 1930. Coal bunkers with a capacity of 7.5 tonnes are installed on both sides between the boiler and the ship's side and are fed through hatches. The coal was removed through openings on the side next to the boiler front.
The steam engine in the 5.5-meter-long engine room at the stern was a standing two-cylinder compound engine with 75 hp, manufactured by the Wiemann brothers , which propelled a ship's propeller. A horizontal machine shaft drove the screw shaft via a coupling. Behind the screw is the simple single-surface rudder, which was operated directly from the wheelhouse by means of a handwheel via chains, rod guides and pulleys. The engine room, accessible from the deck by a ladder on the side, is closed off by two transverse bulkheads. A mouthpiece for communication connects the engine room with the helm. Anchor and windlass had to be retrofitted for approval on running waters.
Web links
- Medienwerkstatt Mühlacker Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Fortuna steam tractor ; last viewed on September 29, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Measurement letter of the Free State of Oldenburg from March 5, 1928, to be viewed in the LWL-Industriemuseum Waltrop
- Further sources are notes and boards, which can be viewed in the LWL-Industriemuseum Waltrop
Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 59.3 " N , 7 ° 19 ′ 54" E