Hagelstein shipyard

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The Hagelstein shipyard was a shipyard in Travemünde . The company, founded in 1949, specialized in the construction of barges , ships for long coastal travel and fishing trawlers . It closed in 1973.

history

The forerunner of the shipyard was a locksmith and repair company for automobiles founded by Alfred Hagelstein in 1919 . From 1923 ship engines were also repaired and from 1927 single-cylinder hot-head engines were built . 1930's representation was Deutz - marine diesel engines for fishery and coasters adopted and in the years to dry excavators, were harbor cranes and equipment developed for the extraction of peat and produced.

From 1948 Hagelstein operated a repair yard to convert steam ships to drive with diesel engines. Deutz diesel engines were used almost exclusively. After the Second World War, the demand for small cargo ships in particular was very high. In addition to the experience as a repair shipyard and the good location in Travemünde, this was a reason to open a new shipyard in 1949. In total, the shipyard built 30 new ships with a total of around 18,000  GRT, mainly for shipowners from Lübeck and Hamburg .

In 1954 construction machinery production was expanded in order to become independent of shipbuilding . In 1964 the shipyard was restructured into a construction machinery factory, whereby the boat building was retained. As a result, the sport boat series of HATRA day cruisers was developed and built. In 1973 the last ships were delivered and all operations were stopped.

Ships

The first ship, the Silbermöwe (299 GRT) was the complete renovation of a coaster for the Lübeck shipowner H. Krohn, which was carried out in 1952. Two new freighters with 999 GRT followed for the same shipowner, which were delivered in 1953 and 1954. Two government ships were delivered to the Federal Ministry of Finance in 1954. For the Lübeck shipowner K. Lafrentz, a total of five inland cargo ships with a load capacity of 600 t each followed in 1955.

From 1956 to 1959, a successful series of twelve largely identical freighters was delivered for various Lübeck and Hamburg shipowners, including the Inge Leonhardt . The ships were 67 m long, 10.85 m wide and had a side height of 5.35 m. The measurement was 999 GRT, the load capacity 1,650 tdw. The 1000 HP Deutz engine enabled a nominal speed of 11.5  knots .

From 1959 to 1969 another twelve ships were built, mainly coasters with 299 and 499 GRT, as well as the small Mecklenburg ferry for the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. The last nine ships were fishing trawlers of various sizes with 34, 80 and 100 GRT for fishing operations in Büsum , Kiel and Bremerhaven .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Hatra: 53 years of the machine works and shipyard Alfred Hagelstein , HATRA construction machinery archive, accessed on January 13, 2017.
  2. Mecklenburg , Car Ferries in Europe, accessed on January 13, 2017.