Polstjernan (ship)

Polstjernan

The wreck of the Polstjernan on the beach at Blankenese

Ship data flag  Finland Ship type Auxiliary sailors , cargo sailors home port Mariehamn , Finland Owner Edgar Erikson, Mariehamn Shipyard Dragsfjärd, Finland Launch November 29, 1919 Whereabouts Burned out and stranded on October 20, 1926

Ship dimensions and crew length 67.06 m ( Lüa ) width 12.90 m Draft Max. 5.49 m measurement 1,600 GRT / 733 NRT

Machine system machine Four-cylinder hot-bulb crude oil diesel engine from Bergsunds Mekaniska Verkstads , Stockholm Machine performance 240 hp (177 kW) Top speed 6 kn (11 km / h) propeller 1

Rigging and rigging Rigging More beautiful Number of masts 4th

Others

The Polstjernan was a Finnish four-masted gaff schooner with an auxiliary engine that has been lying in front of the Hamburg district of Blankenese as a wreck and photo motif since 1926 .

history

The keel-laying of the Polstjernan took place in 1919 at the shipyard in Dragsfjärd , it was launched on November 29, 1919 and in 1920 it was handed over to the owner Gustaf Erikson . When it was launched , it was considered the largest wooden ship built in Finland in Finland.

The shipwreck

The Polstjernan was on her way from Finland to England with a cargo of wood on October 20, 1926, when the machine exploded in the Kiel Canal and the ship caught fire. In order not to disturb the canal as an important waterway, the ship was towed through the locks in Brunsbüttel to the mouth of the Elbe. The rescue company based in Blankenese , Friedrich Matthias Harmstorf , towed the ship to the Falkenstein site after receiving the rescue order . It has been there since October 27, 1926, initially with stones, then weighted down with submarine scrap in 1947 and serves as a breakwater. Position of the wreck: 53 ° 33 ′ 35 "  N , 9 ° 47 ′ 11"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 35 "  N , 9 ° 47 ′ 11"  E

Namesake

The ship is named after the North Star .

Trivia

According to the Hamburg Port Authority (HPA), the Polstjernan will not be affected by the deepening of the Elbe and will therefore be preserved.

See also

The wreck of the ship Uwe is in the immediate vicinity .

literature

• Alexander Anthony Hurst: Square Riggers: The Final Epoch, 1921-1958 . Teredo Books, Brighton 1972, ISBN 0-903662-00-0 , pp. 132 .
• Jochen Stüsser-Simpson: Hanseatic monument protection poems : Exemplary from 1974 to 2020 . BookRix, Munich 2020, ISBN 978-3-7487-2876-4 .

Web links

Commons : Polstjernan (ship, 1920)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Polstjernan. In: DigitaltMuseum. (English, Norwegian, Swedish, picture of Polstjernan). 

Footnotes

1. ↑ SV Polstjernan (+1926). In: Wrecksite. April 30, 2013, accessed February 22, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Herbert Karting: POLSTJERNAN - A hapless four-masted schooner from Finland . In: Arbeitskreis Historischer Schiffsbau (Ed.): The Logbook . No. 4 , 2006, ISSN  0175-7601 , p. 177–181 ( table of contents [accessed February 22, 2020]).
3. ↑ The four-masted schooner "Polstjernan". Retrieved February 14, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Archive December 2019. Wrecks in Blankenese not affected by Elbe deepening. In: European Sailing Information System (ESYS). December 4, 2018, accessed February 22, 2020 .