Mircea (ship, 1939)

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Mircea
The Mircea at Sail Amsterdam (2005)
The Mircea at Sail Amsterdam (2005)
Ship data
flag RomaniaRomania Romania
Ship type Sail training ship
class Gorch-Fock class
Shipyard Blohm & Voss , Hamburg
Build number 519
Launch September 22, 1938
Commissioning January 25, 1939
Ship dimensions and crew
length
74.0 m ( Lüa )
62.0 m ( KWL )
width 12.0 m
Draft Max. 4.8 m
displacement Construction: 1,354 t
Maximum: 1,500 t
 
crew 210 men
Machine system
machine 1 diesel engine
Machine
performance 		520 hp (382 kW)
Top
speed 		9.5 kn (18 km / h)
propeller 1
Rigging and rigging
Rigging Barque
Number of masts 3
Number of sails 23
Sail area 1,748 m²

The Mircea is a 1938 from the stack overflowed Bark , which intermittently until today as a training ship of the Romanian Navy is used.

history

The ship, built by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg from 1938 to 1939 , was put into service as a sailing training ship for the Romanian Navy and is named after Mircea cel Bătrân , one of the most important voivodes in Wallachia . After the Second World War , it was briefly confiscated by the Soviet Union . In 1966 the Mircea was given a general overhaul at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg and is still in active service today.

In 1976 Mircea took part in the celebrations marking the 200th anniversary of the US independence. In 2004 she crossed the North Atlantic again, this time as part of the Regatta Tall Ships' Challenge 2004 , in which she finished fifth overall. In 2005 the ship sailed through the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic to the North Sea . It visited ports from France to Norway on the way and took part in the Tall Ships' Races in 2005. In 2008 she took part in the Hanse Sail Rostock.

In March 2017 it became known that the German Navy wanted to send cadets to training on this ship due to the unplanned long failure of the Gorch Fock as a sailing training ship. However, the ship is not to be chartered and the original crew remains on board. The background to this mixed occupation is the ship's safety standards, which do not correspond to the German ones. Therefore, the rigging is operated exclusively by the Romanian crew. The German cadets take on deck service and nautical tasks. The first cadets of the German Navy went on board on August 11, 2017.

See also

The predecessor of the Mircea was also called Mircea and was a brig built in 1882.

literature

  • Otmar Schäuffelen, Herbert Böhm: The last great sailing ships, Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-7688-3191-8

Web links

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

Footnotes

  1. ^ Romanian Ministry of National Defense (July 12, 2006): Romanian School-Ship Marches in the Black Sea. Military Newsletter, Issue No. 21 ( Memento from September 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Officer training: "Mircea" takes over "News" from April 28, 2017 for "Gorch Fock"
  3. ↑ Author: Vicky Stöpler: Training for officer candidates at sea: "Mircea" instead of "Gorch Fock". Federal Navy, August 24, 2017, accessed on March 26, 2018 (gE).