Gotthilf Hagen (ship)

Gotthilf Hagen

Gotthilf Hagen in the Bremerhaven fishing port

Ship data flag  Germany Ship type Pilot station ship class Commodore Rolin class Callsign DBLR home port Bremerhaven Owner Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS) Shipyard Jos. L. Meyer , Papenburg Build number 496 Launch May 14, 1959 Whereabouts Decommissioned and sold. Conversion to a private yacht.

Ship dimensions and crew length 55.1 m ( Lüa ) width 9.5 m Draft Max. 4.0 m displacement 692  t measurement 762 GT / 258 NRZ   crew 28

Machine system machine diesel-electric 2 × electric motor, AEG AG shipbuilding department Machine performance 912 kW (1,240 hp) Top speed 13 kn (24 km / h) Energy supply 3 × Maybach diesel generators Generator power 990 kW (1,346 hp) propeller 2 × fixed propellers

Transport capacities Load capacity 136 dw

Others Classifications Germanic Lloyd IMO no. 5134131

The Gotthilf Hagen is a former pilot station ship that was stationed in the Weser estuary. She is one of six ships of the same type of the Commodore Rolin class that were stationed in the mouths of the Elbe , Weser / Jade and Ems waters .

General

Was built in the Gotthilf Hagen in 1959 under the hull number 496 on the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg . The keel of the ship was laid on February 16, the launch on May 14, 1959. The ship was completed in September 1959.

The ship was owned by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS), and it was operated by the Lotsbetriebsverein eV branch in Bremerhaven . The ship has been used as a pilot station ship since 1959. In summer 2010 the ship was decommissioned and replaced by the SWATH pilot station ship Weser .

The ship is named after the hydraulic engineer Gotthilf Hagen , who on behalf of the Prussian Admiralty managed the construction of the port of the future city of Wilhelmshaven .

Technical specifications

The ship is powered by diesel-electric technology . The two electric traction motors come from the AEG AG shipbuilding department. They each have an output of 456  kW . Three Maybach diesel generators, each with an output of 330 kW, provide power to the traction motors and the on-board network.

On board the ship there were beds in 25 cabins for a total of 70 people, up to 28 crew members and up to 42 pilots .

Whereabouts of the ship

The Gotthilf Hagen was last in Emden launched and was the end of 2011 for 145,000 euros over the VEBEG GmbH sold in the Netherlands, where the ship on the Veka-yard is being converted into Wakendam to a private yacht the shipyard owner. The ship will also be equipped with transverse thruster systems in the bow and stern.

Web links

Commons : Gotthilf Hagen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lotsenwesen today , Lotsenbrüderschaft Weser II / Jade ( Memento from February 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Versetzdienst on the Weser and Jade in the future , Lotsenbrüderschaft Weser II / Jade ( Memento of 26 February 2011 at the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Baptism of the second 60m SWATH @ A & R ( Memento from June 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Former pilot station ship “Gotthilf Hagen” becomes private yacht , SeereisenMagazin, issue 5/2012, September / October 2012.
5. ^ "Gotthilf Hafen" sold , THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung, December 30, 2011.
6. ↑ The pilot station ship becomes a private yacht , THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung , July 18, 2012.
7. ↑ Versluis sr. verbouwt loodsboot en doopt haar Nelson Mandela , Schuttevaer, February 2, 2012.