Ondo (ship)

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Wreck of the Ondo on the Großer Vogelsand in summer 2007

Ondo is the name of a British freighter that ran aground on December 6, 1961 in the treacherous grinding sands of the Großer Vogelsand in the Elbe estuary, about 1000 meters north of buoy 4.

history

The Ondo ran on June 7, 1956 in the shipyard Harland & Wolff in Belfast from the stack . She had a measurement of 5435 GRT and a load capacity of around 8000 tons. It had belonged to the Elder Dempster Line of Liverpool since October 24, 1956 .

When it was stranded in December 1961, the cargo consisted of cocoa . Most of the Ondo was scrapped in the months and years that followed . On February 18, 1962, during the storm surge caused by the hurricane Vincinette , a dramatic rescue operation took place. Five men from the Bugsier salvage shipping company , who had stayed on the wreck since the storm surge began , were rescued by the rescue cruiser Ruhr-Stahl , exhausted .

Remnants of the wreck can still be seen at low tide .

literature

  • SAGES, Gerhard: Ocean ships run aground off Cuxhaven . 2nd Edition. Self-published by Sübers, Hanover 1970.
  • Schwabedissen, Tim: Stranded . Ship accidents off the North Sea coast. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-7822-0893-5 (Contains detailed chapters on Ondo with numerous illustrations.).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The drama on the "Großer Vogelsand" ( memento from September 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) , NDR.de, December 5, 2011.
  2. ↑ Ondo. Stadtwiki Cuxhaven, accessed on September 10, 2013 .
  3. ↑ C. Wiemeler, chapter: A ship disappears ( memento from August 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on the ONDO homepage ( memento from August 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).

Coordinates: 54 ° 0 ′ 31 ″  N , 8 ° 26 ′ 18 ″  E