List of German school ships

The following list gives an overview of German training ships , both military and civil.

designation	Ship type	Class / type	Construction year	Shipyard	Owner	period of service	Whereabouts	image
Amazon	corvette	Single ship	1843	Carmesins Shipyard, Grabow	Prussian Navy	1850 to 1860	Sunk November 14, 1861
Mercury	Frigate ship		1847	JW Klawitter, Danzig	Prussian Navy		Canceled in 1861
Niobe	Sailing frigate		1849	Royal Dockyard, Portsmouth	Imperial Navy	1863 to 1890	Canceled in 1908
Renown	Ship of the line		1857	Chatham Dockyard, Chatham	Imperial Navy	1871 to 1881	Canceled in 1892
Mars	Artillery training ship		1877	Imperial shipyard, Wilhelmshaven	Imperial Navy	1881 to 1908	Canceled in 1921
Blucher	Cruiser frigate	Bismarck class	1877	Norddeutsche Schiffbau AG, Kiel	Imperial Navy		Sold in 1908 and the Hulk exhausted
Undine	brig		1869	Royal Shipyard, Gdansk	Imperial Navy	1871 to 1884	28 October 1884 stranded
Black hussar	Three-masted gaff schooner		1902	Holm & Gustafsson, Råå	German Navy	1940 to 1945	Wrecked in 1947, hull sunk in 1949
Niobe	Jackass barque		1913	Frederikshavn Værft and Flydedok	German Navy	1923 to 1932	Sunk in 1932
Gorch Fock	Barque	Gorch-Fock class	1933	Blohm & Voss	German Navy		Museum ship under reconstruction
Horst Wessel	Barque	Gorch-Fock class	1936	Blohm & Voss	German Navy		in motion
Albert Leo Schlageter	Barque	Gorch-Fock class	1937	Blohm & Voss	German Navy		in motion
brake	Artillery training ship	Single ship	1931	Marine shipyard, Wilhelmshaven	German Navy	1932 to 1941	Sunk September 6, 1941
Grunt	Artillery training ship	Single ship	1935	Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft, Bremen	German Navy	1936 to 1940	Sunk April 14, 1940
Hugo Zeye	Torpedo training ship		1940	AG Neptune in Rostock	German Navy	1942 to 1945	Sunk March 14, 1945
Trave	Outpost boat	Eider class	1942	Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon	Federal Navy	1956 to 1963	November 25, 1971 Decommissioned, then sold for scrapping
Eider	Outpost boat	Eider class	1942	Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon	Federal Navy	1956 to 1969	April 1978 decommissioned, then sold for scrapping
North wind	War fish cutter	368	1945	Burmester shipyard	Federal Navy	1956 to 2006	German Naval Museum
Gneisenau	frigate	Hunt class	1943	Yarrow & Co. Ltd.	Federal Navy	1958 to 1966	Wrecked in 1977
Gorch Fock	Barque	Gorch-Fock class	1958	Blohm + Voss	Federal Navy	since 1958	in motion
Hipster	frigate	Black Swan class	1945	John I. Thornycroft & Company	Federal Navy	1959 to 1964	Sold for scrapping in 1967
Count Spee	frigate	Black Swan class	1939	Yarrow & Co. Ltd.	Federal Navy	1959 to 1964	Sold for scrapping in 1967
Scheer	frigate	Black Swan class	1943	A. Stephens & Sons	Federal Navy	1959 to 1964	Sold for scrapping in 1968
Scharnhorst	frigate	Black Swan class	1943	Denny & Brothers	Federal Navy	1959 to 1964	Sold for scrapping in 1989
Brommy	frigate	Hunt class	1942	J. Samuel White	Federal Navy	1959 to 1965	Broken down in 1979
Raule	frigate	Hunt class	1941	John Brown & Company	Federal Navy	1959 to 1967	Wrecked in 1972
Germany	Training ship	Class 440	1960	Nobiskrug	Federal Navy	1963 to 1990	Canceled in 1994
Danube	tender	Rhine class	1960	Schlichting shipyard	Federal Navy	1964 to 1968	Decommissioned in 1994, then sold to Turkey
Dysentery	Training ship	Class 401	1960	Schlieker and Blohm + Voss	Federal Navy	1964 to 1971	Delivery to Turkey
Ems	Diving school boat	Class 754	1940	DW Kremer, Elmshorn	Federal Navy	1964 to 1978	Sale, Puddefjord / Panama
Inger	Multipurpose landing craft	Class 520	1966	Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft , Hamburg	Federal Navy	1974 to 1992
Baltrum		Class 754			Federal Navy	since 1974
Juist		Class 754			Federal Navy	since 1978
Langeoog		Class 754			Federal Navy	since 1978
Ernst Thalmann	Training ship of the People's Police Lake	Single ship	1928	Orlogsværftet , Copenhagen	People's Navy	1952 to 1961	Sunk in 1965 during target practice in the Baltic Sea
Wilhelm Pieck	Motor training ship	Vodnik class	1975	Stocznia Północna (North Shipyard), Gdansk	People's Navy	1976 to 1990	After 1993 scrapped in Santander
Wilhelm Pieck	Sail training ship		1951	Warnow shipyard Warnemünde	Society for sport and technology	1951 to 1990	in motion
Grand Duchess Elisabeth	Full ship		1901	Joh. C. Tecklenborg, Geestemünde	German school ship association	1901 with interruptions until 1945	Museum ship in Dunkirk
Grand Duke Friedrich August	Barque		1914	Joh. C. Tecklenborg	Statsraad Lehmkuhl sailing ship foundation	since 1914 with interruptions until today	in motion
Admiral Karpfanger	Barque		1908	Rickmers Reismühlen-, Rhederei & Schiffahrts AG	HAPAG	1937 to 1938	1938 lost on her first training trip
Training ship Pomerania	Barque		1893	Kingston Yard, Russell & Co., Glasgow	German School Ship Association	1928 to 1928	Stranded in 1928, scrapped in 1930
Pamir	Barque		1905	Blohm & Voss	Pamir and Passat Foundation	1951 to 1957	1957 sunk
Passat	Barque		1911	Blohm & Voss	Hanseatic City of Lübeck	1925 to 1932 1951 to 1957	Museum ship in Travemünde
Training ship Germany	Full ship		1927	Tecklenborg shipyard	German School Ship Association	1927 to 1944, 1952 to 2002	Museum ship in Bremen-Vegesack
Seute Deern	Ketch		1939	J. Ring-Andersen Skibsværft	until 1967 German School Ship Association until 1969 North German Lloyd	1964 to 1969	Sail training ship, on which anyone interested can learn traditional seamanship through the Clipper association
Grand Duchess Elisabeth	Gaff saver		1909	Jan Smit shipyard in Alblasserdam	Training Ship Association Grand Duchess Elisabeth e. V.	until 2007	in motion
Aurora	Buoy laying machine		1952	Jade shipyard	Förderkreis Seefahrtschule Leer e. V.	until 2007	in service in Belize since 2011
Greundiek	Coaster		1950	Rickmers shipyard	Maritime school in Grünendeich	1986 to 1994	Museum ship
Dragon	Gunner		1908	Friedrich Krupp Germania shipyard , Kiel	Imperial Navy, Reichsmarine, Kriegsmarine	1908 to 1914, 1928 to 1945	Sunk April 18, 1945
Mars	Cargo steamer		1937	North Sea Works Emden	Navy	1941 to 1944	Sunk April 11, 1944
Diver	Diving training ship	Single ship	1935	Stülcken shipyard , Hamburg	Reichsmarine / Kriegsmarine	1935 to 1945	unknown
North country	Coastal armored ship		1918	Orlogsværftet , Copenhagen	Navy	1944 to 1945	Sunk on May 3, 1945
Paul Beneke	Navigation training ship	Single ship	1936	Lindenau shipyard , Memel	Navy	1938 to 1945	Published until at least 2000, then unclear

Inland navigation training ship Rhine

In the city port of Duisburg-Homberg lies the Rhine training ship , on which prospective inland waterway skippers are accommodated while they are completing their theoretical training in the RHEIN vocational training college . The ship was built in 1984 by the Meiderich shipyard. Legally, the ship is declared as a floating facility together with Rhine II , but the ship still has a European number .

literature

• Gerhard Koop, Siegfried Breyer: The ships, vehicles and planes of the German Navy from 1956 until today. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-7637-5950-6 .
• Gerhard Eckhardt: The sailing ships of the German training ship association. A documentation. Hauschild, Bremen 1981, ISBN 3-920699-37-8 .
• Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 . Volume 5, Auxiliary Ships II: Hospital Ships, Residential Ships, Training Ships, Research Vehicles, Port Service Vehicles . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1988, ISBN 3-7637-4804-0 .
• Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships . Volume 9: Historical overview, collective chapter landing craft, mine ships, minesweepers, speedboats, training ships, special ships, tenders and escort ships, torpedo boats, supply ships . Mundus Verlag, 1999, OCLC 247353137 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ schulschiff-rhein.de