JG Fichte (ship)
 The JG Fichte 1973
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The JG Fichte was a cargo and training ship of the VEB Deutsche Seereederei Rostock (DSR). It was named after the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte . From 1974 to 1976 the DFF television series Zur See was produced on the ship .
history
The ship was on 31 October 1948 as Claude Bernard at Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire in Saint-Nazaire from the stack and belonged to Lavoisier - class . The commissioning took place in February 1950 at the shipping company Maritime de Chargeurs Réunis in Le Havre . From 1950 to 1962 she was used in liner service to South America , at times also to Africa .
On August 7, 1962, Claude Bernard was taken over by VEB DSR. Renamed in J. G. Fichte , she was put into service as the third training ship of the DSR, after the Theodor Körner and the Heinrich Heine . It was used on the GDR - Cuba / Mexico line. In addition to first-year sailors , nautical officers and radio officers were trained on board.
The JG Fichte was made on 9 July 1979 by the DSR decommissioned and put up for sale. It was initially acquired by Estrella Christal Nav. S.A. , based in Panama , and renamed Sunrise . In 1980 it was named Sunrise IV . In 1981, S. Athanasiou became the registered owner of the ship, which was renamed Pegancia . However, it did not go under this name, but was towed from Colombo to Gadani for scrapping , where it arrived on May 24, 1981.
Furnishing
When it was commissioned in 1950, the Claude Bernard was measured at 12,021 GRT. It had 94 seats for first class passengers and 230 seats for second class passengers. As a training ship of the DSR, she was measured with 11,045 GRT and had accommodation for 289 trainees and trainers on board.
Worth mentioning
On August 1, 1973, the J. G. Fichte ran under the leadership of Captain Lothar Prause with an aid cargo consisting of food from Rostock to Chile to support the socialist government of the Unidad Popular . The crew consisted of 257 crew members, including 101 sailor apprentices and about 50 interns from the Warnemünde / Wustrow University of Engineering for Maritime Studies . On the way a port was called on Cape Verde and Montevideo . At the beginning of September 1973 the ship passed the Strait of Magellan and reached the port of Coquimbo in northern Chile in the first week of September . The unloading of the auxiliary cargo began there. On September 11, 1973, the occupation was surprised by the military coup . The JG Fichte stood when staying at the Chilean ports of Coquimbo, Antofagasta and Valparaíso under constant guard of heavily armed posts of the military junta. Searches were carried out on board every day. Many crew members witnessed violent attacks on parts of the population. After the cargo was unloaded, a partial load of copper could be taken on board and the ship left Chile via the Strait of Magellan. With a short stopover in Santos , the ship reached the home port of Rostock on November 8, 1973.
photos
The JG Fichte at night in the port of Rostock
JG Fichte 1973 Rotterdam
Partial view of the bridge structure
literature
- Claus Rothe: German ocean passenger ships. 1919 to 1985. In: Library of Ship Types. transpress publishing house for traffic, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-344-00164-7 , p. 34, p. 145-146.
- German shipping companies Volume 23 VEB Deutsche Seereederei Rostock Author collective Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen ISBN 3-928473-81-6 Page 148
Web links
Footnotes
Remarks
- ↑ One of the last photographs of the ship before it was towed to the scraper . At maritime-connector.com, accessed on April 23, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ PEGANCIA - IMO: 5166574 . Retrieved April 23, 2019 from shipspotting.com