Uncle Otto (ship)
Uncle Otto (2010)
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The Uncle Otto is a cargo ship that supplies the North Sea island of Langeoog .
history
The ship was built in 1959/1960 under the construction number 830 on the Schiffs- und Maschinenbau AG Mannheim as a river ferry for the Bundeswehr . The keel was laid on March 1st, the launch on July 1st, 1959. It was completed on January 1, 1960.
The landing craft was used by the Wiesbaden river pioneers until 1988 . In early 1986 it was rebuilt for the first time. At the beginning of 1988 the landing craft was sold to the shipping company of the island community of Langeoog , which had it extended by six meters in March 1988 at the J. Diedrichs shipyard in Oldersum . It also received a crane and a transverse thruster . On March 8, 1988, the former landing craft of the Bundeswehr in Oldersum was christened Uncle Otto .
use
The uncle Otto is used as an island utilities, goods loaded in Bensersiel in small truck trailers, they are brought on board, pulled in Langeoog ship and to its place of use (mostly in) from the port Langeoog with electric carts pulled.
