Norderney (ship, 1950)

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Norderney
Norderney 3 - Maurice van Bruggen.jpg
Ship data
flag GermanyGermany Germany Netherlands
NetherlandsNetherlands 
other ship names

Paul J. Muller

Ship type Logger
Shipyard German shipyard , Hamburg
Launch 1950
Ship dimensions and crew
length
44.05 m ( Lüa )
width 8.22 m
measurement 399 GRT

The Norderney ( Fischereinummer HH 294) is a logger type ship with built-in diesel engine , which was built in 1950 as a fishing cutter , later used as a transmission ship for a pirate transmitter on the high seas and is now operated as a floating café.

history

construction

The HH 294 Paul J. Müller was built in 1949/1950 at Deutsche Werft AG in Finkenwerder for the Paul Meyer shipping company in Hamburg. The logger had a survey of 399  GRT , was 44.05 meters long and 8.22 meters wide.

Fishing trawler

The ship was used from 1951 to catch herring in international waters off Iceland . In July 1956 the Niedersächsische Hochseefischerei GmbH from Cuxhaven bought the logger and renamed it after the island of the same name on Norderney .

Sending ship

In 1960 the ship was sold to the Netherlands for scrapping . First, the flight recorders was in IJmuiden and later in Haarlem and Spaame where the Radio Veronica - Consortium (VRON) the ship as a substitute for the pirate radio Veronica acquired.

At this point the mast and the bridge had already been scrapped. In Zaandam , the necessary renovations were carried out on behalf of the new owners. The engine was removed and the vacant space of 10 found  kW strong medium-wave transmitter into place. There were also two 24 meter high wooden masts for the transmitting antennas .

From September 1964, the fully equipped transmission ship was firmly anchored three nautical miles from Scheveningen and thus replaced the lightship Borkumriff III . Until August 31, 1974, the Norderney served as a floating base station for the sea transmitter.

Restaurant ship

After the pirate broadcasting time off the Dutch coast came to an end, the ship was converted into a restaurant, which then appeared at many events in the ports of the Netherlands and in Emden . It kept all of its broadcast equipment.

On August 31, 2003, the now legal Veronica Rundfunk-Organization (VOO), 29 years after its cessation as an illegal sea broadcaster, received a day license to broadcast a historical radio program for six hours from aboard the traditional ship.

Today the ship is moored in the city harbor of Amsterdam and is operated as a floating café.

Web links

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

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Jim Parkes: The years of Radio Victoria , soundscapes.info (English).