KFK 185
 KFK 185 as cutter Wilhelm Peter in Bremerhaven
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KFK 185 was a German war fishing cutter and thus belongs to the largest shipbuilding series in German seafaring.
history
Second World War
The cutter was built in 1943 at the Burmester shipyard in Swinoujscie- Ostswine and served as an outpost boat in both the North and Baltic Seas during the Second World War . After the end of the war, the cutter was owned by the Bremer Treuhand until 1949.
Fishing service
In 1949 the cutter was renamed BX 454 Wilhelm Peter and was under charter from Wilhelm Kuhn in Bremerhaven from July 2, 1949 to September 16, 1949. Here he was used for the first time as a salmon catcher. He held this position under various charterers until 1955.
From September 17, 1949 to August 4, 1951, he was in service as BX 454 Wilhelm Peter at Charter Hans Garling in Hamburg.
From August 5, 1951 to April 27, 1955, he was in service as BX 454 Wilhelm Peter for charterer Bernhard Kohnk. In 1953 the cutter received its second machine, a Demag-Modag low-speed machine with 180 hp.
From April 28, 1955, the cutter was owned by Bernhard Kohnke and Herman Richert in Kiel-Friedrichsort as SO 272 Wilhelm Peter .
On June 21, 1955, it was removed from the BX register.
Conversion to an expedition ship
In 1983 the club “Monte Christo” from Krefeld acquired the cutter.
From 1983 the cutter Wilhelm Peter was converted into an expedition ship by the Club “Monte Christo”. The home port was now Bremerhaven.
To enable use in tropical waters, several fully air-conditioned cabins were installed. As part of these renovations, the superstructures were also expanded. Despite extensive changes, the original structure was retained.
In addition to living and sleeping cabins, the technical facilities were also fundamentally upgraded. Greatly enlarged bunker and cooling options now enabled worldwide use. The maximum autonomous service life of the ship was now several months on the high seas.
Use as an expedition ship
In the course of the following years the ship was used as an expedition ship off Cape Verde , Porto Christo and Corsica , among others . The main task was finding wrecks and exploring marine historical cultural sites. For this purpose, the ship experienced the installation of various technical equipment such as a metal detector.
Use as a floating restaurant
The cutter Wilhelm Peter has had a permanent berth in Fischereihafen I in Bremerhaven since 1998 .
Between 1999 and 2001 the ship was used temporarily for catering purposes.
From 2001 to 2015 the cutter was used continuously as a floating restaurant and catering ship "Kutter Wilhelm Peter" in the fishing port in Bremerhaven. On February 3, 2015, a floating crane hoisted the now ailing cutter out of the water because there was a risk of sinking. The Wilhelm Peter was dismantled in October 2015 .
literature
- Erich Gröner, continued by Dieter Jung and Martin Maass: The German Warships 1815–1945 ; Volume 8/2 Outpost boats, auxiliary minesweepers, coastal protection associations (part 2), small combat units, dinghies. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn, 1993, ISBN 3-7637-4807-5
- Herwig Danner: war fish cutter . Mittler & Sohn Verlag, 2001, ISBN 978-3-8132-0729-3
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ BX register
- ↑ Nordsee-Zeitung , April 9, 1999
- ↑ HG Prager: Hurricane at Bear Island. Seven weeks of the Arctic Ocean . Frank'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1958, p. 167 pp
- ↑ Interview with Herbert Gregor on March 7, 2009
- ↑ dike Mirror: War Trawler "William Peter" does not float more