Gotland II
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The Gotland II was a German cargo ship that sank in December 1981 as part of a research trip in Antarctica .
history
The ship was built in 1971 by Schulte & Bruns in Emden for the shipping company Schulte & Bruns . The launch took place on June 29, 1971. The delivery of the ship, which started out as Annemarie Schulte with home port Bremen , took place on September 16, 1971.
On December 5, 1974, the loaded ship sank after a collision with the Ismani sailing under the Cypriot flag in the Weser estuary near Blexen . A crew member was killed in the accident. The ship was lifted in early February 1975 and initially put aground in shallow water. It was later towed to Brake and unloaded there. The heavily damaged ship was declared a total loss by the insurance company, but the shipping company had it repaired by AG “Weser” in Bremerhaven at the Seebeck plant and later put it back into service.
In 1978 the ship was sold and operated by the Schulauer Schiffahrtkontor in Wedel as Gotland II with its home port of Hamburg , after Jos. L. Meyer in Papenburg and the crane and the loading booms were removed.
At the end of 1980, components for the Georg von Neumayer station to be built were shipped to the Antarctic by ship. For this it was rebuilt at the Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG in Hamburg. During the renovation, the ship was u. a. Equipped with a loading boom with a lifting capacity of 20 t and a helicopter landing pad as well as additional accommodation and reinforced the fuselage.
The ship was also used for the second GANOVEX expedition of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources to the Antarctic. Since the ship, unlike the shipping of the components for the German Antarctic station to be built, where it was accompanied by an icy tugboat and a polar research ship , was traveling alone as part of the GANOVEX II expedition, it was also equipped with a weather satellite reception system equipped. The helicopters carried on board should be used to clarify the ice conditions in the Antarctic.
The expedition started on November 14, 1981 from New Zealand. On board the ship were 16 crew members, twelve scientists, eight expedition escorts and five helicopter pilots for the on-board helicopters with which expeditions were to be flown in the Antarctic. The ship should reach the coast of Antarctica after around ten days at Cape Adare in the Viktorialand region . The crossing was delayed by almost a month due to pack ice . Victoria Land was reached on December 10th. However, the ship should continue to Yule Bay, which is more favorable in terms of supply . On the way there, the ship was trapped in pack ice. The ice pressure caused the ship to leak on December 17th and finally sank on December 18th, 1981 ( ⊙ ). A large part of the equipment for the GANOVEX II expedition, worth almost DM 1.4 million, was lost with the ship. The ship's crew and expedition team were able to save themselves to the Lillie Marleen refuge with the help of the helicopter .
Technical data and equipment
The ship was on a four-stroke - eight-cylinder - diesel engine the manufacturer Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz with 1,965 kW power driven. The motor acted on a propeller via a reduction gear . The ship reached a speed of 13.2 knots .
Two diesel generators with 115 kVA apparent power each , a diesel generator with 78 kVA apparent power and an emergency generator with 45 kVA apparent power were available for the power supply.
Featuring a steerage provided ship was as Volldecker or as free Decker measured . The side height as a full decker was 7.72 meters, that as a free deck was 5.00 meters. The maximum draft of the ship as a full decker was 6.43 meters, and as a free deck it was 5.14 meters. After the conversion in 1978, the maximum draft of the ship was 6.42 meters as a full decker and 5.17 meters as an open deck.
The superstructures were in the rear of the ship. The cargo hold with a hatch measuring 42.70 meters × 9.50 meters was located in front of the superstructure . The hatch was closed with a MacGregor hatch cover. Until 1978 the ship was equipped with a crane that could be moved lengthways on rails attached to the side of the hatch shell . Furthermore, the ship was in front of the superstructure and the pole on the back , each with a derrick equipped. The crane and loading booms could each lift 5 t.
The hull of the ship was reinforced with ice ( ice class E3).
Web links
- Ship details (PDF file, 2 MB)
- All lost , Der Spiegel 4/1982
- The ship that sank twice , Die Zeit 6/1982
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e M / S "Annemarie Schulte" , data of the ship (JPG file, 756 kB). Retrieved December 28, 2016.
- ^ MS "Annemarie Schulte" , Friends of the Seafaring Association. V. Accessed December 28, 2016.
- ↑ a b Eberhard Kohlberg, Jürgen Janneck: Georg von Neumayer Station (GvN) and Neumayer Station II (NM-II) - German Research Stations on Ekström Ice Shelf, Antarctica , Polarforschung 76 (1–2) / 2006, p. 47– 57 (PDF file, 6.1 MB). Retrieved December 28, 2016.
- ↑ Station construction expedition 1980–81 , Antarktis.ch. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
- ↑ a b c Failure of the Antarctic expedition of the "Gotland II". Federal Minister of Economics, answer of the Federal Government to a small question. Printed matter 9/1376, German Bundestag, 9th electoral term, February 19, 1982 (PDF file, 350 kB). Retrieved December 28, 2016.
- ↑ Antarctica: German refuge placed under international monument protection , press release by the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, August 3, 2005. Accessed December 28, 2016.
