Griffin (ship, 1935)

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Ship data Ship type Motor boat with screw home port Constancy Owner German State Railroad Company Shipyard Bodan shipyard, Kressbronn takeover 1935 Whereabouts Confiscated in 1945 and used as a launch in France

Ship dimensions and crew length 20.075 m ( Lüa ) width 4.21 m Draft Max. 1.10 m displacement 23.425 t

Machine system machine Diesel engine Machine performance 225 hp (165 kW) Top speed 13.34 kn (25 km / h) propeller 1

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 25th

The Greif was a rescue, recovery and inspection boat of the Deutsche Reichsbahn .

history

The service boat Greif was to be built by the Bodan shipyard for the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Lindau from a conversion of the unsatisfactory town of Radolfzell . However, the shipyard built a significantly smaller new building without correctly informing the client. The shipyard in Lake Constance is said to have sunk the unusable old hull . When it took over, the Reichsbahn accepted the shipyard's variant. Despite some built-in original parts, the Greif was not a conversion, the ship's dimensions were too different.

The motorboat was equipped with a patented tow hook and was used, among other things, to haul other watercraft such as steamers and barges. It was equipped with a self-priming centrifugal pump with an hourly output of 200 m³ for the recovery of damaged vehicles . The connection nozzles to which suction hoses could be connected for drainage were on deck. A fire extinguishing device for an hourly output of 60 m³ and a long range was also installed.

The ship was used as a service boat on Lake Constance with its home port of Constance until 1945 and was confiscated by the occupying forces at the end of the war and transported to France. There it is said to have been used as a launch in Rouen until the 1990s .

photos

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  The motorboat Greif in the list of ships on Lake Constance from around 1944 in the Constance Machine Office of the Deutsche Reichsbahngesellschaft

literature

• Michael Berg: Motor shipping on Lake Constance under the Deutsche Reichsbahn and in the post-war period . regional culture publisher, Ubstadt-Weiher et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-89735-614-6 .
• Dietmar Bönke: paddle wheel and impeller. The shipping of the railway on Lake Constance . GeraMond Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86245-714-4 .
• Werner Deppert: The white fleet - interesting facts about shipping on Lake Constance . Friedr. Stadler, Konstanz 1977, ISBN 3-7977-0018-0 .

Footnotes and individual references

1. ↑ Not to be confused with the Bregenz service boat Greif (1930), which was also transported to France in 1945. See Dietmar Bönke (literature) p. 249
2. ↑ See data comparison in Dietmar Bönke (literature) p. 255 and the detailed building history based on the files of the Reichsbahn in Michael Berg (literature) p. 192–196.
3. ↑ According to the shipyard brochure of the Bodan shipyard Kressbronn from 1935