Heinrich Horn (ship)
 The wreck of the Heinrich Horn off Langeoog
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The Heinrich Horn was a freight steamer built by order of HC Horn from Schleswig at Henry Koch's shipyard in Lübeck .
She was 1431 gross register tons and had a load capacity of 2325 t at 881 NRT . It was powered by a III.-Exp. Machine from Ottensener Maschinenfabrik J. F. Ahrens in Altona with 625 PSi and delivered to HC Horn & Genossen on November 4th, 1900 .
The steamship became the property of the younger brother, and he founded in 1902 in Lübeck steamboat shipping company on May 27, 1903 "HC Horn" about Lubeck.
With a load of wood from Sweden on the way towards Delfzijl , the ship ran aground during a heavy storm on December 2, 1917 in Otzumer Balje near Langeoog . The Dr. Krause , the Langeooger rowing lifeboat , could weather conditions in the first on 4 December distressed vessel to be alongside. At that time, however, nobody was on board there.
From May 18, 1918, demolition work was carried out on the wreck.
literature
- Heinz Haaker: The "Ship Value of Henry Koch AG" - A Chapter Lübeck Shipbuilding and Industrial History , German Shipping Museum, Bremerhaven 1994, Ernst-Kabel-Verlag, ISBN 3-8225-0299-5 , p. 133.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ N , 7 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E