Youngest
As the youngest was the herring loggers the youngest novice called. He usually had more than two years of driving time.
The herring catchers began their vocational training after leaving school at the age of 14 to 15 as a cabin boy or boy for short. The fishing season for herring catchers lasted from May to November; regular attendance at a vocational school was not possible. For this reason, the ship's boys and light seamans who were required to attend vocational school went to rural vocational schools in the winter without vocational training.
Therefore, around 1910, fishing schools were founded in the homeland of the herring catchers ( Windheim , Niederwöhren , Stolzenau ), and lessons also took place in winter.
In Westphalia, where many logger crews lived here, a preschool was established for future ship boys around 1930 in the Heringsdörfern on the Weser. For the practical instruction there was a training ship, the Bark Klar for turning , which was berthed in Emden.
literature
- Jens Rösemann: Kok-in-Ruum on the herring logger. A youth at sea or the pursuit of perfection. Johann Heinrich Döll, Bremen 1996, ISBN 3-88808-227-7 .
- Dieter Finnern: Knowledge store, fishing expertise . 2nd, revised and supplemented edition. Transpress, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-344-00359-3 .