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The rescue cruiser Paul Denker is a museum ship in Bremen. It was the first ship of the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People (DGzRS) made entirely of aluminum and at the same time the smallest of all sea rescue units ever built in Germany with a daughter boat.
history
In the case of the rescue cruisers built in front of the Paul Denker , superstructures were partly made of aluminum, but the hulls were made of steel .
Built in 1967 by the Schweers shipyard in Bardenfleth under construction number 6398, the Paul Denker served as a kind of test vehicle for the then new light metal cruisers; the knowledge gained with it flowed into the development of the subsequent cruiser and lifeboat series. The DGzRS internal designation was KRS 01.
The daughter boat with the DGzRS internal designation KRT 01 was also built by Schweers under construction number 6399.
The daughter boat was replaced by a rubber boat in 1977.
Naming
The ship was christened in the name of the foreman of the rescue cruiser Adolph Bermpohl . The entire crew of the Adolph Bermpohl was killed in a serious accident on February 23, 1967 off Heligoland .
The daughter boat was named Eiswette from 1829 to commemorate the founding year of the Bremer Eiswette .
Stationings
From June 1967 to September 1969 the Paul Denker was stationed in Maasholm . In the same month it was relocated to Grömitz , where it was used until October 1975. The move to Travemünde followed , where she was stationed until February 2000. After that, the ship was used for training purposes at the SAR school in Neustadt in Holstein until June 2005 .
Whereabouts
Since July 2005 the Paul Denker has been exhibited as a museum ship in the Focke Museum in Bremen.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 5 '33.7 " N , 8 ° 51' 50.8" E