The from Hamburg shipowner given Julius Hauschildt in order Grete Hauschildt completed their on February 9, 1963 launch and was delivered from the shipyard on 27 April 1963rd The ship management was taken over by the correspondent shipping company Küstenschiffahrt Bauer & Hauschildt.
During the hurricane on December 6, 1973 , the Grete Hauschildt was on her way from Ghent to Kiel with a load of phosphate fertilizer . At about 1950, the master made an emergency call north of Norderney at position 53 ° 50′N, 07 ° 05E, reporting that a hatch cover had broken in heavy seas and gone overboard. The bilge pumps were unable to move the amount of water taken in from the hold . Four helicopters and two planes of the Bundeswehr as well as several merchant ships, including the ferry Prince Hamlet (IMO 7320332) and the 220,000-ton tanker Fernhaven (IMO 6906854), set course for the damaged vessel. The Prince Hamlet reached the ship just before midnight. At that time, attempts were made to disembark the seven crew members by helicopter, but failed. The Grete Hauschildt sank on December 7, shortly after 3:00 a.m., around five nautical miles north of the lightship Elbe 1 to position 54 ° 05'06 "N, 08 ° 06'30" E. About 30 minutes after the sinking, three crew members were rescued alive from a life raft by helicopter , and two others were found dead in another life raft. The captain and the helmsman remained missing.
technology
The Grete Hauschildt had a length of 57.18 m (51.00 m Lpp , 53.79 m freeboard length ) and a width of 9.62 m. On delivery, she was measured at 424 GRT and a load capacity of 690 dwt . The ship had two holds without an intermediate deck . Grete Hauschildt received two cargo booms with a load capacity of two tons each as well as a 5-ton crane mounted amidships as loading gear on the shipyard . It was powered by a 300 hp six-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine from the manufacturer Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz (KHD), which acted on a fixed propeller . Her top speed was 10 knots .
literature
Gert Uwe Detlefsen: The type ships of the Sietas shipyard. Verlag HM Hauschild, Bremen, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89757-494-6
Individual evidence
↑ a b c Gert Uwe Detlefsen: The type ships of the Sietas shipyard. Verlag HM Hauschild, Bremen, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89757-494-6 , p. 156
