Gauss (ship, 1941)
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The Gauss is a former German survey and research ship .
history
The ship was built in 1941 at the D. W. Kremer Sohn shipyard in Elmshorn as a drinking water supplier for the Navy . It started moving as a Trave .
After the war it became the property of the United States and was first in Wesermünde launched . In 1948 the ship was made available to the newly founded German Hydrographic Institute (DHI). It was rebuilt for its new tasks and put back into service as Gauss in January 1950 .
The ship was used for research trips in the fields of sea surveying , oceanography , nautical technology and marine environmental monitoring and covered around 400,000 nautical miles in over 300 research trips during its service life . At the end of December 1979 it was decommissioned in Hamburg and replaced in 1980 by the new building of the same name .
After decommissioning, the ship was launched in Lübeck . In the meantime it was considered to get the ship going again or to convert it into a museum ship. In the summer of 2004 it was finally towed to Liepāja for scrapping .
Technical data and equipment
The ship was propelled by a Sulzer Halbach diesel engine with an output of 735 kW (1000 hp ). It reached a speed of 12 knots .
For loading and exposing gauges and buoys as well as one on the stern carried the boat was in the ship forward and aft area with derricks equipped.
literature
- Adolf Sieber: The surveying and research ship Gauss of the German Hydrographic Institute. In: German Hydrographic Journal . Volume 3, 1950, ISSN 1616-7341 , p. 163
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c survey and research ship Gauss , buesummaritim.de. Retrieved January 11, 2013.
- ↑ a b c d e Research ship “Gauss” scrapped in Liepaja ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), MF-Rundspruch 45/04, MF-Runde eV