Johannes Krüss

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Johannes Krüss p1
Ship data
flag GermanyGermany Germany
Ship type Side catcher
Callsign DEQW
home port Bremerhaven
Owner Carl Kämpf, Bremerhaven
Shipyard Seebeck shipyard , Bremerhaven
Build number 816
Launch June 25, 1956
takeover August 1956
Whereabouts In the North Atlantic west lost Islands
Ship dimensions and crew
length
60.40 m ( Lüa )
width 9.19 m
Side height 4.38 m
measurement 650.29 GRT, 265.52 NRT
 
crew 23
Machine system
machine Steam engine with exhaust turbine
Machine
performanceTemplate: Infobox ship / maintenance / service format 		1,250 hp (919 kW)
Top
speed 		12.4 kn (23 km / h)
propeller Fixed pitch propeller
Others
Classifications Germanic Lloyd
Registration
numbers 		Fishing license plate BX 651

The Johannes Krüss was a West German fish steamer built in 1956, which in the spring of 1959 played a decisive role in the search for the crashed Danish Greenland steamer Hans Hedtoft , through which the ship and crew became known nationwide. Presumably at the end of February 1967 the Johannes Krüss itself was lost west of Greenland under circumstances that have not yet been clarified.

The misfortune

On Tuesday, February 21, 1967, the fishing steamer set sail under Captain Rudolf Starossek on another fishing trip in the waters around Iceland. The reason for the trip was a catch for the business during Holy Week . On the trip to the fishing area, a crew member suffered so badly from his stomach that he had to be dropped off in Stornoway in the Hebrides . The Johannes Krüss left Stornoway on February 25, 1967 and continued her journey.

On February 28, the stern catcher Sirius of Hochseefischerei Nordstern AG received a last radio message from the steamer, which indicated its position as 38 ° West, approx. 300 nautical miles east of the southern tip of Greenland. At that time, the temperature was 22 degrees Celsius below zero, the weather maps of Greenland recorded a westerly storm with wind force 10 in the region for that day.

Since this report, there has been no trace of Johannes Krüss . When the shipping company had not yet received a catch report from the radio operator Rudolf Kunz on March 5, 1967, it tried to establish contact via Norddeich Radio ; but the sender returned the cable as undeliverable.

On March 7th, the trawler JH Wilhelms of the Kämpf shipping company sent a message to all fishing vessels: Who saw Johannes Krüss? . There was no positive answer. On March 8, the shipping company applied to the Federal Ministry of Transport , Maritime Transport Department, for a search. This was approved the next day. The large-scale search and rescue operation was coordinated by the Danish authorities in Godthaab . The West German fishing vessels Jochen Homann , Seydisfjord and Braunschweig as well as several aircraft were involved in the search .

Since the search was unsuccessful, they were discontinued on March 21, 1967. The ship and crew have been lost since then.

literature

  • Wolfgang Walter: "Deutsche Fischdampfer", Die Hanse, Hamburg, 1999, p. 298. (Ship data)

Web links

Memorial at the cemetery in Geestemünde