Meteor (ship, 1964)

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meteor
Meteor-1964 hg.jpg
Ship data
flag GermanyGermany Germany
Ship type Research ship
Callsign DBBH
home port Hamburg
Shipyard Schichau Seebeck shipyard , Bremerhaven
Commissioning March 24, 1964
Whereabouts Canceled in 1993
Ship dimensions and crew
length
82.1 m ( Lüa )
width 13.5 m
Draft Max. 5.2 m
displacement 3,085 t
measurement 2,615 GRT
 
crew 55
Machine system
machine Diesel-electric , another 5 main engines with 600 HP each
Machine
performance 		2,000 PS (1,471 kW)
Top
speed 		14 kn (26 km / h)
Transport capacities
Permitted number of passengers 24 scientists
Furnishing
Laboratories

14th

Others
Classifications Germanic Lloyd
Registration
numbers 		IMO 6407573

The Meteor was a German research ship and the second research ship with this name.

history

The ship was built under construction number 889 at the Schichau Seebeck shipyard in Bremerhaven and put into service in 1964. The godmother of the ship , which was christened on February 8, 1964 and which took on the name of the first German research ship Meteor , was Wilhelmine Lübke , the wife of the then Federal President Heinrich Lübke .

The ship was operated by the German Hydrographic Institute (DHI) with funding from the German Research Foundation . The range of the ship was around 12,000 nautical miles . From 1964 until its decommissioning in 1985, the ship carried out a total of 73 expeditions in all marine research disciplines, mainly in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans . It covered a distance about 30 times the circumference of the earth.

Whereabouts of the ship

The ship was sold to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in New Zealand in 1985 and operated there until 1992 under the name Rapuhia by the Union Steam Ship Company. At the end of 1992 the ship went to Singapore and came under the flag of Honduras . In 1993 the ship was scrapped in India .

literature

  • DHI (1964). Research ship "Meteor" , supplement series A (8 °), No. 5 for the German Hydrographic Journal, German Hydrographic Institute, Hamburg, 39 pages (pdf 1.7 MB) (information on trips and tasks Meteor (1924), building history, Outline drawing and tasks Meteor (1964))
  • DFG (1972). 25 meteor expeditions 1964–1971, an interim balance sheet against the background of developments in international marine research , German Research Foundation, Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 120 p. (Pdf 4.3 MB)
  • DHI / DFG (1978). 50 trips by the research ship “Meteor” , German Hydrographic Institute, German Research Foundation; Harald Boldt Verlag, Boppard, 180 pp., ISBN 3-7646-1722-5 (pdf, 5.1 MB)
  • DFG / DHI (1985). Research ship Meteor 1964–1985 , German Research Foundation, German Hydrographic Institute, 146 pages (pdf 10.1 MB) (with an overview of the ships used as meteor)
  • Research results were mainly published from 1966 to 1986 in "Meteor" research results , published by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Gebrüder Bornträger, Berlin, in four series:
    • Row A (A / B) General, Physics and Chemistry of the Sea
    • Series B Meteorology and Aeronomy
    • Series C Geology and Geophysics
    • Row D biology
  • Sarnthein, M. , Seibold, E. , Grobe, H., Schumacher, S. (2008) Data Compilation of the Research Vessel METEOR (1964) , WDC-MARE Reports , 6 , 27 pp. (pdf 2.9 MB) (compilation of available retro-digitized data)

See also

Web links

Commons : Meteor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c Departmental investigation into the capsize of the crane barge Titan (PDF; 3.9 MB) , Marine Incident Investigation Unit, Department of Transport and Communication, October 18, 1993.
  2. ↑ a b New Zealand Maritime Index
  3. ↑ F / S METEOR trips 1976 - 1977 .
  4. ↑ Baptism 50 years ago was on February 8th , THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung, February 6th, 2014.
  5. ↑ a b c History of the second "Meteor" ( memento of the original from February 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifm.zmaw.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Institute for Oceanography at the University of Hamburg .
  6. ^ Science on the High Seas , THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung, January 31, 2014.