Mermaid (ship, 1939)

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mermaid
Mermaid on the move
Mermaid on the move
Ship data
flag GermanyGermany Germany
Ship type Tour ship
Owner LWL Industrial Museum , Waltrop
Shipyard Nobiskrug , Rendsburg
Commissioning 1939
Whereabouts Museum ship in Waltrop
Ship dimensions and crew
length
24.30 m ( Lüa )
width 4.55 m
Draft Max. 0.85 m
displacement 93.982 m³
 
crew 4th
Machine system
machine 2 × three-cylinder steam engines Übigau, Dresden
Machine
performance
110 hp (81 kW)
propeller 2
Transport capacities
Permitted number of passengers 58
Others
Registration
numbers
ENI: 04029460

The Nixe , hull number SS 501, was built as a steam- powered tour boat in 1939 by the Nobiskrug shipyard in Rendsburg for the canal authorities and used on the Elbe and the Mittelland Canal . Until 1945 the ship was subordinate to the Prussian mechanical engineering office Magdeburg - Rothensee and after the war until 1971 to the water and shipping office Hitzacker . Then the mermaid was sold to the Netherlands and later came back to Germany. The ship is now part of the Westphalian Industrial Museum Altes Schiffshebewerk Henrichenburg and is located there in the museum harbor. The mermaid has been operational again since 1998 ; it is approved for use on federal waterways .

Mermaid left in the foreground

construction

The hull is welded from shipbuilding steel. In the foredeck, there are accommodations and sanitary facilities for the four-person crew as well as a small kitchen for catering to passengers. The high chimney can be folded down to pass under low bridges . There is a towing device on the aft superstructure. The crew consists of the skipper, a stoker, a machinist and a sailor.

drive

The ship is equipped with two 55 hp, standing three-cylinder composite steam engines from the mechanical engineering institute Übigau , which act on two fixed propellers. For steam generation it has a horizontal flame tube boiler with 34 m² heating surface and a maximum operating pressure of 16 atm, made by Christiansen and Mayer, Hamburg. The coal bunker held six tons and the ballast tank 7000 liters.

literature

  • Eckhard Schinkel and Norbert Tempel: Historic barges for the Henrichenburg ship lift museum. Small series issue 2 Dortmund 1998

Web links

Commons : Nixe (Schiff, 1939)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files