23.2 meter class of the DGzRS
 HH Meier, exhibited in the Deutsches Museum in Munich as Theodor Heuss
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The 23.2-meter class was a series of four rescue cruisers of the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People (DGzRS) and a ship of the Guardia Costiera . The ships of this class were built between 1957 and 1960 by the Schweers shipyard and boatyard in Bardenfleth and Abeking & Rasmussen in Lemwerder and decommissioned in the 1980s. The type ship is the cruiser Theodor Heuss , which is why one speaks of the Theodor Heuss class . It was the world's first class of modern sea rescue cruisers with a new drive and daughter boat concept.
Development and equipment
The development of the class was based on the findings of the experiments with the Bremen , which had encouraged the DGzRS in its will to use cruisers with daughter boats, as well as the findings from the development of the first ship of the so-called "new generation", Hermann Apelt . The ships were equipped with a mid-engine with an output of 993 kW (1350 PS, the same 12-cylinder diesel V-engine as in the DB series V 100/211) as well as two external engines, each 147 kW, with one screw each drive. The ships were also equipped with fire extinguishing systems and external bilge pumps.
The ships
Theodor Heuss
The Theodor Heuss was built under the hull number 6320 for ship and shipyard Schweers and in 1957 as lead ship of the class in the name of the first German President baptized . The godmother was the daughter-in-law of Theodor Heuss.
From March 7, 1957 to June 17, 1963 the Theodor Heuss was stationed on the island of Borkum . Then the relocation to Laboe took place . The ship was used here from June 21, 1963 until it was decommissioned on May 29, 1985. After being taken out of service, it was sold to a private person and was converted into a cabin cruiser and in a different color scheme on the Weser until 2008 under the name Frido Spatz . In 2008 she was sold to a Hamburg shipowner and completely renovated in Hirtshals / Denmark. The ship was now in January renamed.
In 2015/16 the ship was renovated in a shipyard in Finkenwerder and on May 5, 2016, under the new name THeuss, it accompanied the parade for the Hamburg port birthday.
The DGzRS internal designation was KRS 2, its call sign DBAG.
The daughter boat Tedje , a Northern German trivialization of the first name Theodor, had the internal name KRT 2. The daughter boat Tedje was first exhibited as an exhibit with the name Roland in Norddeich in front of the rescue shed there, also sold to a private person in 1996 and now bears the name Tedje again .
Ruhr steel
The Ruhr-Stahl was founded in 1958 by the Schweers shipyard under shipyard no. Built in 6337. The cruiser got its name when it was baptized on April 15, 1958, due to the support of the DGzRS from the steel industry, which is mainly based on the Ruhr . From April 1958 to May 1965 the Ruhr-Stahl was stationed in Cuxhaven . It was transferred to the DGzRS station on the island of Amrum , where the ship was in service until May 1985. Up to this point in time the ship carried the callsign DBAA. In 1985 the ship was sold to Uruguay , where it was used as the Ades III as a rescue cruiser. It was later sold on within Uruguay, and since then the ship has been used under the name Ana Isabel in Montevideo as a dive support ship and offshore supplier.
The Ruhr-Stahl was the filming location and the setting for the 13-part German television series From the Peter Petersen's Logbook with Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum in the role of foreman, produced in 1977 and broadcast on ZDF in 1977/78 . Peter Petersen was the serial name of the ship.
The DGzRS internal designation was KRS 3.
The daughter boat Tünnes (hull number 6342, call sign DA 6212) was named after the popular figure of the same name from the Rhineland. It was also used as Henry Cotelo in Uruguay as a SAR unit until 2006 and is now available to the Ugandan sea rescue service NLRI on Lake Victoria .
It had the internal name KRT 3.
HH Meier
The HH Meier was also sold by Schweers in 1960 under the shipyard no. Built in 6353. The baptism took place on March 11, 1960 in Bremen-Vegesack . The ship was named in honor of consul Hermann Henrich Meier , a Bremen shipowner, founder of the North German Lloyd and first chairman of the DGzRS after its foundation in 1865. From March 1960 to August 1985 the HH Meier was stationed in Bremerhaven . From 1985 to 1987 she served as a reserve ship under the callsign DBAE of the DGzRS. When it was decommissioned in August 1985, the cruiser was renamed Theodor Heuss . The background to this was the intention to exhibit a type ship of the class of the first “real” German rescue cruiser in the Deutsches Museum in Munich . The renaming is therefore to be seen as a reference to the class name. The renamed HH Meier and its daughter boat were brought to the German Museum in Munich in March 1987 . The journey to Munich was initially made by water - over the Rhine , the Main and the Main-Danube Canal - to Nuremberg , from there by heavy goods transport to Munich.
The DGzRS internal designation was KRS 4.
The daughter boat Roland (hull number 6356, call sign DA 6211) had the internal designation KRT 4. It was named after the city of Bremen 's landmark of the same name . Also in August 1985, the daughter boat was named Tedje .
Hamburg
The Hamburg was the only ship of the class 1960 from Abeking & Rasmussen in Lemwerder under the shipyard no. Built in 5468. She had the callsign DBAF. The cruiser was the third DGzRS vehicle that was baptized in the name of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg , and is therefore also known as Hamburg III. The baptism took place on March 11, 1960 in Bremen . From March 1960 to July 1975 the Hamburg was stationed in Burgstaaken , in the same month it was moved to Grömitz , where the ship was stationed until it was decommissioned in October 1985.
The DGzRS internal designation was KRS 5.
In late 1985 the ship was sold to the Caribbean , where it was operated commercially under the name Sea Wolf . In 1990 the ship returned to Germany and was privately owned there in the Baltic Sea ( Neustadt in Holstein ). In the following period, the owner and berth changed several times, so it was in the Baltic States, in Sassnitz (Rügen) and finally until 2004 as the Ostseebad Kühlungsborn in the town of the same name on the Baltic Sea, later in Wilhelmshaven. In autumn 2004, the Hamburg was taken over by the current owner. He transferred the ship to Stralsund , where it was revised. A side machine, a Mercedes OM 355, was removed and completely overhauled. The Hamburg was a museum ship in the Hamburg museum harbor Oevelgönne until mid-June 2007 , after which it was relocated to Rostock . The rescue cruiser is approved as a traditional ship and can be chartered for up to 20 people as part of the traditional shipping. The cruiser was last moored in the port of Stubbekøbing under the name Seewolf .
The first daughter boat (hull number 5551, DA 6208) was named after Hamburg's Michaeliskirche , popularly known as Michel . It had the internal designation KRT 5. The daughter boat was removed from the cruiser after returning from the Caribbean and sold to Mannheim , where it - now in private ownership - was renamed August-Wilhelm . The daughter boat later exhibited at Hamburg was not the original, but a lifeboat built by Fassmer in 1955 for the Borkumriff lightship .
Bruno Gregoretti
The Bruno Gregoretti is not part of the DGzRS class in the strict sense, as it was manufactured directly for the Italian coast guard . However, the ship was built according to the already available plans of the 23.2 m class and can therefore be seen at least as part of the Theodor Heuss class .
The construction took place due to the special interest of the Italian coast guard in the post-war period for the rescue cruisers of the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People. In the mid-1960s, she ordered the Michele Fiorillo (CP 307), the first rescue cruiser from Schweers, which was launched in 1967 and remained in service from 1968 to 2001. At the beginning of the 1970s, the order for a second boat followed, the Bruno Gregoretti (internal identification: CP 312), which was launched in Bardenfleth in 1972. It was named after an officer of the Italian coast guard who fell off Pelješac in February 1943 . From 1975 to the end of 2007 the ship was in service with the Guardia Costiera. It carried the callsign IHXR. Home port of Bruno Gregoretti was and is Livorno even after the decommissioning . The local Autorità portuale took over the boat in 2012 and made it available for visits by school classes and other visitor groups.
In 2014 the local Lorenzoni shipyard was commissioned with the restoration of the rescue cruiser, which is to be used as a museum ship in the new port center of the port . In September 2019, the Gregoretti was given the original color scheme, which largely corresponds to that of the DGzRS.
In addition to the Fiorillo , the Gregoretti was the only sea rescue cruiser of German manufacture that was in service with the Italian coast guard.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Info on Seenot.Spuelsaum.de
- ↑ Overview of the ships operated by the operating company. Retrieved November 2, 2016 .
- ^ Forum Schiff , notification of July 28, 2015.
- ↑ Details on naviecapitani.it ( Memento from September 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
