Pollux (ship, 1940)
 The Pollux
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The Pollux is an Amsterdam- based barque that was operated as a stationary sailing training ship .
history
The 1940 in Amsterdam at the Verschure - Shipyard built ship was in early 1941 as a training ship of the Dutch Matrozen Instituut put into service and had since 1849 five previous ships of the same name. It was planned from the beginning as a stationary training ship and therefore only has a very flat underwater ship. The height of the main mast above water is 31.50 m, but the draft is only 0.60 m.
In 1943, during the Second World War , the ship was dismantled and towed to IJmuiden , where it served the German crew. After the end of the war, it served briefly as accommodation for the British and Dutch navies until the Pollux was brought back to Amsterdam in autumn / winter 1945 and was completely overhauled by the Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland . She then served until 1989 as a training ship for the Zeevaart School van de KNZ & RV. Berth was the Amsterdam Oosterdok until 1984. From 1984 to the spring of 1993 she was in a different place in Amsterdam until the ship was moved to a berth in IJmuiden.
At that time there were plans to convert the Pollux in the underwater area in order to be able to actively sail with her, but these were not implemented. In IJmuiden the ship served the International Maritime Training Instituut as a training ship for ship safety equipment and boarding ship until 2004 , after which it was brought back to Amsterdam and renovated there. Today's berth is the former operation of the NDSM in Het Ij, Amsterdam, where the Pollux is used as a floating restaurant.
literature
- Schäuffelen, Otmar: The last great sailing ships . Delius Klasing publishing house, Bielefeld 1994, ISBN 3-7688-0860-2 .
Web links
- Homepage of Pollux (Dutch)