Jens (ship, 1922)
_auf_der_Medem-_by_RaBoe_001.jpg) The Jens in 2007
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The Jens is a former Hamburg port launch that has had two serious ship accidents.
history
The ship was built in 1922 by Carl Heidelmann in Lauenburg / Elbe and initially sailed under the name Wilhelm Helmke . Later it was named Caesar II , after which it was renamed Hubert and finally it was named Jens . It has been used on the Medem River since 1980 .
Sinking in the Elbe in 1972
On February 15, 1972, the ship, then known as Caesar II , was involved in a serious accident. Against 6:45 put the barge under Captain Rudolf Hierl with 45 passengers on board at Baumwall from. Like numerous other launch operators , Hierl headed for the fairway in the Norderelbe and apparently overlooked the HADAG ferry Eppendorf , which had the right of way and which had set off a little further up the Elbe and was headed for the jetties by Captain Robert Marschatz . She should then continue to Waltershof . There were no passengers on board the ferry. When Hierl noticed that he was on a collision course with the ferry, there was no more time to evade. The Caesar II was rammed by the Eppendorf . The Eppendorf pushed the launch a few meters in front of her, then the stern was pushed under water. The Elbe was eleven meters deep at the site of the accident and had a temperature of just under 1 ° C at the time of the accident.
Some of the passengers had escaped from the launch into the water; recognizing them in the twilight, however, was difficult for the skippers of other launches who hurried to help. The fire brigade was alerted at 6.52 a.m. and came ashore with a fire boat and vehicles, and police boats , a helicopter and divers were used to find and rescue survivors. In the end, 28 people, including Captain Hierl, were rescued alive, 17 people were killed. The last victim could only be recovered nine weeks after the accident.
The collision between the HADAG ferry and the port launch was the most momentous ship accident in the port of Hamburg since the Second World War .
Hierl, who had practiced his profession without accidents for twenty years before the collision, was held responsible by the Hamburg Maritime Administration. Unlike the other launch operators, he had only noticed the approaching Eppendorf on the unlucky morning when she was only 40 meters away from his launch. The 55-year-old barge captain received an eight-month suspended sentence for negligent homicide in 17 cases.
The Caesar II was lifted on the day of the accident. It had suffered only minor damage, was repaired and continued to be used under Hierl on the Elbe.
The Eppendorf , which had rammed and sunk a launch, the Erich , in 1965 , also remained in use in Hamburg. Eight years after the collision with the Caesar II, she collided again with a launch, the port captain . A person died in this accident.
Sinking in the Kiel Canal in 1977
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When the barge was used as a ferry on the Kiel Canal between Wik and Kiel-Holtenau a few years after the accident with the Eppendorf , it still had its Hamburg port vehicle number HB 20, but had been renamed. She now drove under the name Hubert .
On January 28, 1977 the Hubert , which had only been providing ferry service on the canal for a few weeks, got in the way of the Soviet freighter Baltiyskiy 37 , was rammed and sank. One passenger was killed and two people were saved.
Use for tourist purposes
Even after the second accident, the ship could be lifted and repaired. Meanwhile it is used as Jens for tourist trips on the Medem to the Otterndorf lock and into the Hadelner Land.
Web links
- Short presentation of Jens on www.schifffahrt-otterndorf.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short history of Jens on www.elbdampfer-hamburg.de
- ^ A b Curriculum vitae of the HADAG ferry Eppendorf , November 6, 2006 at www.elbdampfer-hamburg.de
- ↑ Axel Franz, February 15, 1972: Death in the icy Elbe , February 14, 2012 at www.ndr.de
- ↑ Dieter Wöhlk and Hannelore Pieper-Wöhl, Der Nord-Ostsee-Kanal , Sutton Verlag, 7th edition 2016, ISBN 978-3866804685 , p. 86
- ↑ The Holtenau-Wik canal ferry at www.apt-holtenau.de
- ↑ Boat trips on the Medem at www.otterndorf.de