Griffin (ship, 1942)

Gripping

Ship data flag  Germany Ship type Bearing ship Callsign DBBW home port most recently Cuxhaven Shipyard unknown Launch 1942 Whereabouts 2014 scrapping yard in the Netherlands

Ship dimensions and crew length 38.27 m ( Lüa ) width 8.03 m Draft Max. 3.95 m displacement 420  t measurement 310 GT / 100 NRZ   crew 7th

Machine system machine 1 × MAK MAU 423 A Machine performance 552 kW (751 hp) Top speed 12 kn (22 km / h) propeller 1 × fixed propeller

Furnishing Auxiliary drive 1 2 × MAN D 0024 M with 37 kW Auxiliary drive 2 1 × MAN D 2156 MT with 132 kW

Others Classifications Germanic Lloyd Registration numbers IMO 7642182

The Greif was a German direction finder . The owner was the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS) and the ship was operated by the Cuxhaven Waterways and Shipping Authority at the time . The launch took place in 1942, the completion of the ship took place in 1946 at the former Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven .

The ship was on a four-stroke - eight-cylinder - Diesel engine manufacturer's MaK Maschinenbau Kiel with a power of 552  kW driven, who worked on a fixed-pitch propeller. The ship also had a bow thruster .

The ship was used for sea surveys in the North Sea and for surveying the Lower Elbe and the East . With the data obtained on this ship, the changes in depths due to dredging work are controlled. The ship was u. a. equipped with an echo sounder and a DGPS system. For use in shallow water, the ship had two DF dinghies built by Fassmer in 1983 . The boats were 6.70 m long, 2.30 m wide and had a draft of max. 0.90 m. The boats were powered by six-cylinder diesel engines made by Volvo Penta with an output of 110 kW, which acted on a Z-drive . Like the Griffin , they had a. via an echo sounder and a DGPS system.

The Greif covered approx. 22,000 DF kilometers annually in the area of ​​the WSA Cuxhaven.

The ship was decommissioned on January 10, 2011 and then sold to a Dutch company via VEBEG GmbH for 100,000 euros. The ship left Cuxhaven on March 7, 2011 and was sold to a Dutch scrapping yard in 2014 .

Web links

Commons : Griffin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sounding ship "Greif" at the WSA Cuxhaven

Individual evidence

1. ^ "Greif" left Cuxhaven , Cuxhavener Nachrichten , March 9, 2011. Retrieved on May 5, 2017