Frithjof (ship, 1968)
 The Emsstrom in Leer
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The Frithjof was a German fishing protection ship . The owner and operator was the Federal Office for Food and Forestry, today's Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food .
Construction and technical data
The ship was built in 1968 at the Schlichting shipyard in Travemünde , where the fishing research ship Walther Herwig was also built in 1973 . The ship is 76.76 m long and 11.79 m wide. As a fisheries protection ship it had a draft of 5.14 m , was measured with 1,716 GRT and displaced 2,310 tons . The diesel-electric drive with 2,800 hp allowed a top speed of 15 knots . With its fuel supply of 550 tons, the ship could cover 13,000 nautical miles . The crew consisted of 35 men.
Fisheries Protection Service
The ship was delivered on September 6, 1968 and put into service with its home port of Cuxhaven . Until 1997 it was used to monitor and control fishing . It was used not only in Germany's exclusive economic zone in the North Sea , as well as within the framework of international agreements outside the German sea waters of the North Sea and in the North Atlantic . The main purpose was to monitor compliance with fishing bans and to control the minimum mesh size of the nets, the net accessories and the minimum sizes of the fish caught. There was also a meteorological station (German Meteorological Service) on board, as well as a hospital (Port and Airport Medical Service Hamburg), which provided the various fishing sites with specialist services.
Training ship Emsstrom
The Frithjof was decommissioned in 1997 and sold soon after. The new owner was the non-profit training center MS Emsstrom mbH, founded by a group of German shipping companies in early 1998 , which renamed the ship Emsstrom and operated it as a training ship in Leer . The focus was on the systematic training of Filipino seafarers for careers as nautical and technical ship officers (three years), training as ship's cook (three months) and safety training according to STCW 95 . The training offer of the gGmbH on the ship was used at times by up to ninety shipping companies from Germany and abroad.
As a result of the shipping crisis, numerous customers were forced to cut back training and further education or to discontinue them entirely, which in turn led to difficulties for the operating company. This therefore decided to cease operations at the end of 2012 and to dissolve.
Whereabouts
The disabled Emsstrom was sold to World Towage & Salvage Corp. sold in Panama and towed to Emden on January 9, 2013. There she was hooked on January 10th by the deep-sea tug Christos XXII . On January 14th, the Emsstrom , which was to be towed to Turkey , sank after colliding with the Christos XXII in Lyme Bay off Hope's Nose, Torbay . During the journey through the English Channel , the unmanned Emsstrom had developed a list. The tug was anchored in Lyme Bay to investigate the cause. Shortly afterwards the Emsstrom was driven onto the tug by the tidal current .
The wreck of the Emsstrom is now 27 m deep and can be dived.
literature
- Eric Wertheim: Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World (15th Edition), United States Naval Institute, 2007, ISBN 978-1-59114-955-2 , p. 262.
Footnotes
- ↑ The historical significance of shipping in the Ems-Dollart region ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF; 1.7 MB), German Traditions-Motorboot-Vereinigung e. V. (DTMV). Retrieved August 24, 2012.
- ↑ a b Port of Leer loses landmark , THB - Deutsche Schifffahrts-Zeitung, January 10, 2013.
- ↑ Petra Herterich: The end of an era in the port of Leer , General-Anzeiger , August 28, 2012. Retrieved on August 31, 2012.
- ↑ Sad farewell - training ship Emsstrom leaves East Friesland with a list , Neue Zeitung zum Mitmachen, January 11, 2013, accessed on January 13, 2013.
- ↑ Pictured: Moment damaged tug boat sinks off English Riviera after smashing into second vessel sparking pollution fears , Daily Mail, January 14, 2013.
- ^ Investigation report of the British marine casualty investigation authority MAIB (PDF; 0.5 MB), Marine Accident Investigation Branch
- ↑ MV Emsstrom, Wreck Dive Lyme Bay , Teign Diving Center, Accessed on April 22, 2014
