Paul Beneke (ship, 1936)
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The Paul Beneke was a passenger ship built in 1936 that the German Navy used as a station tender from 1937 and as a navigation training ship from 1939. Previously it was used by the Atlantic shipping company F. & W. Joch in the North Sea. After 1945 it served as a survey ship for the German Hydrographic Institute , was sold to the Netherlands in 1953 and again to Germany in 1959 and renamed Tabu . At least until 2000 was it launched and was scrapped of 2002.
The ship was named after Paul Beneke , the privateer captain of the Hanseatic League and councilor of Danzig in the 15th century.
Construction and technical data
In 1930, on behalf of the Chilean government, a ship with hull number 54 was laid down at the Lindenau shipyard in Memel , which was to serve as the state yacht Presidente Ibanez for the then President Carlos Ibáñez . After Ibáñez was forced to resign and go into exile in Argentina on July 26, 1931, the construction of the ship was stopped and the unfinished hull was left lying on the slipway . A buyer was not found until 1936: the Hansa-Tank-Reederei GmbH from Hamburg acquired the hull for the Atlantic-Rhederei F. & W. Joch as a correspondent shipping company and had it completed as a passenger ship with the new hull number 71. The ship was launched on June 13, 1936 under the name Admiral .
Its length was 50.29 meters, it was 7.60 meters wide and had a draft of 2.80 meters. The design displacement was 469 tons with a measurement of 477 GRT . The drive consisted of a Sulzer 6-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine , which made 800 hp and acted on a screw . The ship thus reached a speed of 12.5 knots . It had a range of 1070 nm at a cruising speed of 12 knots. The ship had no armament even during its later service in the Navy.
history
Passenger ship Admiral
The handover of the Admiral from the shipyard in Memel to the Atlantic-Rhederei F. & W. Joch in Hamburg took place on August 23, 1936. After the commissioning, the Admiral drove for the Nazi organization " Kraft durch Freude " on the routes Hamburg - Helgoland and Cuxhaven - Amrum . She could carry up to 343 passengers and had a crew of 13.
As early as May 31, 1937, the shipping company sold the ship again because of the losses incurred, and the buyer was the Navy. This assigned the ship to the Mürwik Naval School in Flensburg on July 28, 1937 , had it converted into a station tender by Howaldtswerke Hamburg and put it into service on January 31, 1938 under the new name Paul Beneke . During the Kieler Woche 1938, the ship was used by party officials of the NSDAP as accommodation and observation platform. From February 12, 1939, it served as a navigation training ship for the Mürwik Naval School, the training area for the Navy. The crew now consisted of 1 officer and 39 men, and 6 officers and 66 men could find space on board as instructors or trainees.
There is no information about its further use until the end of the Second World War . In May 1945 the ship became British spoils of war.
Survey ship of the German Hydrographic Institute
The British assigned the ship to the German Hydrographic Institute , in whose surveying association it was put into service in June 1945 and was used until it was decommissioned on December 6, 1949.
The surveying activities also took place off the coast of what was then the Soviet occupation zone . From 25 July to 31 October 1947, the surveyed Paul Beneke the Wismar Bay and the ports of Wismar , Tarnewitz , Timm village and Rerik . The planned continuation of the planned work in front of Warnemünde , in the fairways to Stralsund and in front of Saßnitz , planned for 1948, was no longer possible due to the negative decision of the Soviet naval command.
Sales, name changes in taboo and whereabouts
At the end of 1949 the Paul Beneke was handed over to the water and shipping administration in Hamburg. After an overhaul at the Saatsee State Shipyard in Rendsburg , it was used in May 1952 for the reconstruction of Heligoland and for surveying work in the German Bight . In 1953 the ship was first laid up in Kiel and then sold towards the end of the year by the British Naval Craft Disposal Group to the Scheepvaartbedijf “Walcheren” in Amsterdam for resale. A planned sale to the Rogaland Sjöguttskole (Rogaland Seaman's School) in Norway was not realized, but then a Dutch buyer was found who wanted to convert it into a combi- ship at A. van der Grijp in Sliedrecht ( province of South Holland ) . Soon after the start, the work was stopped again and the ship was laid up again.
In 1959 the ship was sold to Germany, renamed Tabu and launched in Leer . A conversion to a cruise ship was planned, but not carried out . The ship lay unused in Leer for more than 20 years. During this time, a fire on board had to be extinguished on February 1, 1970. On March 2, 1979, the ship sank due to broken seawater valves during a severe frost period; it was not lifted again until January 18, 1980. At the end of 1981 an entrepreneur from Munich bought the old ship and had it towed to Emden in order to have it converted into a luxury cruise ship, but this project was not carried out either. Instead, the ship caught fire again at its berth at the railway dock, capsized and sank. A new buyer was not found until 1990; the ship was lifted again in September 1990 and towed to the south quay, but then laid up again. After that, the ship was there until at least 2000. In October 2002 the ship was scrapped in Leer .
literature
- Maria Möring: Atlantic-Rhederei F. & W. Joch, Hamburg, 1919–1969. Self-published, Hamburg 1969.
- Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 5: Auxiliary Ships II: Hospital Ships, Residential Ships, Training Ships, Research Vehicles, Port Service Vehicles. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1988, ISBN 3-7637-4804-0 .
- Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships. Volume 9: Historical Overview. Collective chapter landing craft, mine ships, minesweepers, speedboats, training ships, special ships, tenders and escort ships, torpedo boats, supply ships. Mundus Verlag, 1999, OCLC 247353137 .
- Hans-Jürgen Brosin: On the history of marine research in the GDR. (= Marine Scientific Reports. No. 17). Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Warnemünde 1996, io-warnemuende.de (PDF)
- Jens Voitel: The arduous return of the 'Tabu' to life: the bath ship 'Tabu'. In: Emder newspaper. Easter 1998.
Web links
- Lloyd's Register (1938), "Steamers & Motorships". (PDF) plimsollshipdata.org; accessed on August 21, 2017
- forum-marinearchiv.de accessed on August 21, 2017
- Training ship Paul Beneke. shipsnostalgia.com (with photo of Paul Beneke)
- picclick.de accessed on August 21, 2017
- arkivi-bildagentur.de. Retrieved on August 21, 2017
- mantz-uwt.de accessed on August 21, 2017 (photos from the salvage of the ship in 1980)
- Taboo, at www.shipspotting.com (with photo of the burned-out ship in Emden)
- 41k0.org accessed on August 21, 2017 (private website with pictures of the wreckage posted in 2002)
Individual evidence
- ↑ forum-marinearchiv.de
- ↑ Gröner, p. 109; Hildebrand, p. 159.
- ↑ Hildebrand, p. 159; Gröner, p. 109.
- ↑ Gröner, p. 109; Hildebrand, p. 159.
- ↑ Gröner, p. 109, Hildebrand, p. 159.
- ↑ Brosin, p. 13, p. 18.
- ↑ Hildebrand, p. 159; Gröner, p. 109, cf. mantz-uwt.de forum-marinearchiv.de
- ↑ Erich Gröner , Peter Schenk, Reinhard Kramer: The German Warships 1815-2015. Volume 9/1: The ships and boats of the German Navy, their predecessors after 1945 and the German Navy. Edition Erich Gröner, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-9813904-4-5 , p. 49.