Fridtjof Nansen (ship, 1919)
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The Fridtjof Nansen is a steel three-masted topsail schooner with home port Stralsund . The ship has been operated by the traditional sailing association Fridtjof Nansen e. V. operated.
history
In March 1919 at the shipyard Kalundborg Skibsværft as freight Gaffelschoner with auxiliary engine built, the ship on the name was Edith baptized. The construction company was commissioned by Frøede A / S. In 1922 it was bought by the P. F. Cleeman shipping company in Aabenraa ( Denmark ), for which it operated under the name Frederik Fischer .
In 1927 the ship reached Germany. Under the new owner, Captain MPF Leistikow, it was named Gertrud II with home port Arnis . In 1934, Leistikow sold the ship to Captain HFP Morgenroth.
In 1936, after a collapse, the main engine was exchanged for an exhibit at the Leipzig trade fair from the Deutsche Werke engine types with 150 hp. It was installed at the Schichau shipyard in Gdansk .
From 1938 onwards, under Captain Hinnerk C. Jungclaus, the ship sailed for forty-three years, mostly under machine power, as a coaster across the Baltic Sea ; the trips lead from Mecklenburg and Pomerania to East Prussia , Sweden , Norway and Finland .
When the Second World War broke out , the schooner was in Greifswald . In 1944 he was used for refugee transports ( company "Hannibal" ) and saved the lives of over 500 refugees.
In 1952 the ship was lengthened to 43.33 m. It transported coke and briquettes from Stralsund to Danish ports until 1953, after which it was used to transport fodder potatoes and grain. In 1981, Captain Hanns Temme acquired the Gertrud II as the new owner , under which she transported harvest products for another five years. It was then in 1986 as a storage ship in Arnis at the Schlei launched .
As part of a job creation measure at the Wolgast Peene shipyard in 1991, it was converted to a three-masted mainsail schooner with broad jib. On March 25, 1992, the ship was christened Fridtjof Nansen at the Peene shipyard by the granddaughter of the Norwegian researcher Fridtjof Nansen , Margret Greve .
In 1992/93 the ship made its first long voyage after the conversion after its christening and a test drive in the Baltic Sea. The voyage took the ship from Germany via France to the Caribbean. From there it went back over the Azores to Iceland , where the ship was then used as the international youth camp of Arved Fuchs' ICE-SAIL expedition for young people from 26 countries.
In the winter of 1993/94, the ship was on the high seas high school project for seven months . During this period, the ship sailed from Germany through the English Channel towards the Caribbean. From there it went through the Panama Canal into the Pacific Ocean to Ecuador . The next stage took the ship with the students and an international archaeological group to the Galápagos Islands and from there to Costa Rica . After a stopover in Cuba , we went back to Germany via Bermuda and the Azores .
The ship received a figurehead on the bow in 1997 for the Kiel Week . The figurehead shows an Eskimo hunter with a bone harpoon and was made from an elm trunk. In the summer, the ship took part in the Tall Ships' Race from Aberdeen via Trondheim and Stavanger to Gothenburg .
In the summer of 2005, ARD and ARTE showed Fridtjof Nansen in a six-part television report entitled Wind Force 8 - The Emigrant Ship 1855 . For the reality TV series, adjustments to the interior design were primarily necessary. Modern facilities were either removed or - if necessary, in particular for security requirements - optically hidden. The modern name was also temporarily changed; in the series the ship sailed under the contemporary ship name based on the name Bremen .
In the years 2007 to 2019 the ship was on the Baltic Sea with youth groups from Wismar from April to October.
The Sea Scape Project
As part of the Sea Scape project, the painter Klaus Böllhoff planned the colored design of Fridtjof Nansen's sails . A model of this ambitious project can be seen in Stralsund's Marienkirche .
