Hein Godenwind (ship, 1902)
Hein Godenwind 1933
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The Hein Godenwind was a full ship built in 1902 at the French shipyard Chantiers et Ateliers de Penhoët in Saint-Nazaire as Maréchal Souchet . The ship was used as the first floating youth hostel in the Port of Hamburg from 1933 to 1939 .
history
The ship was built in 1902 under the hull number 33 at the French shipyard Chantiers et Ateliers de Penhoët in Saint-Nazaire. It was launched as Maréchal Souchet for a French shipping company as a cargo ship . In 1904 and 1921 it was sold within France . In February 1909 the ship ran into a shoal off England and had to be abandoned. The damaged ship was recovered in March and then made afloat again. In February 1910 it ran aground off England again, but this time it was recovered and repaired.
In 1922, the ship was in the Gironde laid before it in July 1923 after Norway was sold. The ship's new name was Faith .
In July 1924 the ship was sold to Germany to the shipping company F. Laeisz in Hamburg and continued to be used as a cargo ship as Pellworm . However, the ship made only two voyages as Pellworm : First it was ordered in ballast to Taltal in Chile in July 1924 , but could not circumnavigate Cape Horn due to severe storms . Finally, in November of that year, Montevideo in Uruguay was called as a port of refuge after the ship was damaged, the crew exhausted and drinking water became scarce. The ship finally returned to Hamburg without success. The second voyage took the ship to Ecuador , which it reached in February 1925. On the return trip to Hamburg there were again incidents. Adverse winds prevented the trip from going on as planned. Eventually the provisions on board ran out. At the beginning of April 1925 the ship returned to Hamburg.
It was finally decommissioned in May 1925 and sold to the Syndikats-Rhederei. After being converted into a residential ship with space for 1200 people, it was used in the port of Hamburg. In the early 1930s, the Hamburg port operations association took over the ship, which in 1933 gave it to the Gau Nordmark of the Reich Association of German Youth Hostels . After another renovation at Blohm & Voss , it was put into service on April 8, 1934 under the name Hein Godenwind as a floating youth hostel. It offered accommodation for 514 people.
In early 1939, the ship was placed under the Hamburg Navy Service and used as an office ship. From November 1939 it served as a barge for the crew of the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper , which Blohm & Voss required some modifications. Then it served again as an office ship and for the construction supervision of the battleship Bismarck .
In 1942 it was placed under the 8th Warship Building Training Department. During the air raids on Hamburg in the summer of 1943, the ship was hit on July 25 and caught fire. As a result, it sank to the bottom of the harbor basin. It was lifted in early 1944 and the Hulk was hauled into the Curonian Lagoon in February as a target ship for the German Air Force . It was sunk there later during Luftwaffe exercises.
Web links
- Hein Godenwind , Historical Naval Archive
Footnotes
- ↑ a b Pellworm (1924 ~ 1933) Hein Godenwind SV (+1944) , Wrecksite. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
- ^ Maréchal Suchet , The Maritime History Virtual Archives. Retrieved May 23, 2018.
- ^ Hein Godenwind , State Archives of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , German Digital Library . Retrieved May 23, 2018.