Hermione (ship)
 The Hermine as a memorial at Schleusenpriel in Cuxhaven
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The Hermine is a German gaff schooner built in 1904 and the only type of ship of this type in Germany that has survived entirely from wood. The ship first served as Hermine , from 1907 as Emma and from 1934 as Swedish Wega in coastal shipping on the North and Baltic Seas. In 1979 it was rediscovered in Sweden and transported to Hamburg , but could not be made seaworthy again and is a memorial in a park in Cuxhaven .
Construction and technical data
Which commissioned the Hermione was 1904 Fischer Hinrich Bardenhagen connected to the ship in the coastal trade was boarding. In September of the same year that ran Hermione on the Behrens Shipyard in Hamburg-Finkenwerder (formerly on the floor Lüneburg-Finkenwerder) from the stack . As was customary at the time, he named the ship after his wife. It is the only structure in this shipyard that has survived today.
The ship measured 71 GRT and was 35.20 meters long, 6.00 meters wide and 2.30 meters deep. Under sail it reached a speed of 9 knots . A small diesel engine with 50 hp supported the sailor. The crew consisted of two to three men.
history
From 1904 to 1907 Bardenhagen used the Hermine in coastal trading, but sold it after three years and stayed on land. The new owner gave the ship the name of his own wife Emma . The cargo ship continued to be used in coastal trading until he sold it to Sweden in 1934.
Here the ship was named Wega . In the island world of the country with its many small ports and just such freight, smaller ships were profitable for a long time. In the meantime, Vega had received an auxiliary diesel engine and had changed hands several times. In 1962, profitability was no longer guaranteed, and the ninth owner, Frank Carlson, sold the ship to a sailing club on Öland .
In 1979 the yacht schooner was rediscovered in Sweden by the ship historian and journalist Joachim Kaiser. The young educational scientist Jörg W. Ziegenspeck became aware of the article in the magazine “Yacht” . Since he was looking for a sailing ship for socio-educational group work, he initiated a fundraising campaign to have the hull transported back to Germany. The required amount of 30,000 DM came together so that Hermine , the ship's original name was supposed to bear again, could be transported back to Hamburg in the hold of a coaster in late summer 1980.
At the Jochen Behrens shipyard in Finkenwerder , the ship was waiting for the restoration plans to be finalized . On closer examination it was found that the reconstruction of the wooden hull true to the original and the reconstruction of the rigging would require considerable financial resources. A large donation campaign was started, but an early onset of winter in 1981 with ice drift on the Elbe caused the pumps to freeze, the hull was dented by the ice, so that the ship sank. Reconstruction was out of the question. Divers compacted the leak makeshift down, and the ship was lifted. All plans to reactivate had to be abandoned. The ship was given to the wreck museum in Cuxhaven.
With the help of vocational programs from the employment office , it was possible to restore the ship as a museum object. The Hermine is now a maritime monument in downtown Cuxhaven on Schleusenpriel and can be viewed from the outside.
Hermine became the namesake of the Lüneburg association Jugendschoner 'Hermine' e. V. , which was founded by Jörg W. Ziegenspeck in 1981 and recognized by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture as a non-profit and particularly worthy sponsor of free youth welfare .
literature
- Otmar Schäuffelen, Herbert Böhm: The last great sailing ships . Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-7688-3191-8 .
- Reinhart Schmelzkopf: Ships and Cuxhaven . Wilhelm Heidsiek Verlag, Cuxhaven 2012, ISBN 978-3-935459-23-5 .
- Jörg W. Ziegenspeck: Museum ship 'Hermine'. In: JW Ziegenspeck: experiential education. Review - inventory - outlook. Pp. 49-52, edition erlebnispädagogik, Lüneburg 1992, 4th edition, ISBN 978-3895690822 .
Web links
- Homepage of the shipyard
- Details about the ship in the ship history archive in Flensburg
- Eckhard Zerth: Hermine: a listed gaff schooner on the Schleusenpriel near Kämmererplatz . (PDF; 116 kB)