The later tanker Lützkendorf was built in 1945/46 in the Swedish shipyard Kockums Mekaniska Verksteds A / B in Malmö . The launch took place on January 14, 1946 with the construction number 286 and under the name Securus for the Swedish Rederi A / B Saturnus Mgr. Eman Högberg based in Stockholm. On June 17, 1960, the ship was bought by the GDR and put into service by the Deutsche Seereederei as Lützkendorf . The main reason for buying this ship was the so-called stern oiling device , which was used to lighten larger tankers in the roadstead of the port of Wismar . These large ships could not call at the Wismar port and the more modern overseas port of Rostock was still under construction in 1960.
Only later did it emerge that the former owner had already disarmed the ship for scrapping and that it had considerable deficiencies, especially in the mechanical engineering area. Due to the frequent and recurring defects on the ship, it was decommissioned on January 28, 1969 in Hamburg and sold to the company Eisen und Metall AG . However, this company did not scrap it, but passed it on to Blohm & Voss AG. As Hein Slop it was used, among other things, as a tank cleaning ship for large tanker repairs. High maintenance costs then led to the final scrapping in February 1970.
More ships of the Hobby Horse Movement
Cargo ship Kap Arkona (date of handover to the DSR: November 12, 1958)
German shipping companies Volume 23 VEB Deutsche Seereederei Rostock Author collective Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen ISBN 3-928473-81-6
Gerd Peters: The purchase of old tonnage ships for the GDR merchant fleet. Poetry and truth about the hobby horse movement. In: Full ahead. For sailors and friends of seafaring. Issue No. 12, May 2007, pp. 4/5. Type IV driving people eV (publisher), Rostock 2007
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