Micalvi
 The former freighter Micalvi in Puerto Williams
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The Micalvi is a Chilean museum ship that is moored in the port of Puerto Williams .
history
The freighter was built in 1925 as Bragi under construction number 8 for the Stettiner shipping company Emil R. Retzlaff by the company's own Baltic Sea shipyard in Frauendorf near Stettin, today's Golęcino . The 621 GRT ship was propelled by a triple expansion machine of 450 hp, which was manufactured by the iron foundry & machine factory Paul Heinrich Podeus in Wismar . With her it reached a speed of 9.5 knots . Like numerous other ships of the shipping company, the steamer got a name from Norse mythology . It was named after the Germanic god of poetry .
A year after commissioning, the ship moved to the Otto A. Müller shipping company in Hamburg, which operated it under the name Bostonlines . In 1928 the freighter was sold to the Chilean Navy and renamed Micalvi . The Chilean Navy used the freighter as an auxiliary ship. For the next three decades it was used as a supply ship in the Magallanes region , in Tierra del Fuego . After decommissioning in 1961, the ship served as a jetty in Puerto Williams for many years, for which the freighter was apparently set aground. After a repair in 2007, the Micalvi is now used by the local yacht club as a clubhouse.
literature
- Reinhart Schmelzkopf: Die deutsche Handelsschiffahrt 1919-1939, Volume 2 - List of all ships over 500 GRT with all technical and historical data , Oldenburg and Hamburg 1975, p. 62f.
Web links
- Micalvi, transporte (2do) page of the Chilean Navy (Spanish) ( page no longer available )
Coordinates: 54 ° 56 ′ 6.5 ″ S , 67 ° 37 ′ 6.6 ″ W.