Alan Kurdi (ship)

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Alan Kurdi
The Professor Albrecht Penck in front of the Ozeaneum Stralsund (2008)
The Professor Albrecht Penck in front of the Ozeaneum Stralsund (2008)
Ship data
flag GermanyGermany Germany
other ship names

Joh. L. Krueger
Professor Albrecht Penck

Ship type Research ship
Callsign Y3CH
home port Rostock
Owner State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Shipyard Roßlau shipyard
Build number 234
Launch June 4th 1951
Decommissioning August 21, 2010 (as research ship)
As of 2011
home port Stralsund
Owner Robert Krebs KG (GmbH & Co.)
As of 2018
Owner Sea-Eye
Ship dimensions and crew
length
38.58 m ( Lüa )
width 7.28 m
Side height 3.50 m
Draft Max. 3.16 m
measurement 307 GT / 92 NRZ
 
crew 10 people
Machine system
machine 1 × diesel engine
Machine
performanceTemplate: Infobox ship / maintenance / service format 		221 kW (300 hp)
Top
speed 		9 kn (17 km / h)
propeller 1 × fixed propeller
Transport capacities
Load capacity 117 dw
Permitted number of passengers 9 to 11 scientists
Others
Classifications Germanic Lloyd
IMO no. 5285667

The Alan Kurdi is a seagoing ship sailing under the German flag . It bears the name of the drowned Syrian refugee child Alan Kurdi and has been used by the aid organization Sea-Eye for sea ​​rescue in the Mediterranean since 2018 . The ship was previously in service as an offshore supplier and as a research ship for the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

history

Research ship of the GDR

The ship was built in 1951 at the VEB Roßlauer shipyard . It was launched on June 4, 1951 from the pile and was completed in September 1,951th

The ship was part of a construction program to meet reparation claims from the Soviet Union , but then stayed in the GDR and became their first research ship.

Initially commissioned as a survey ship with the name Joh. L. Krueger (named after the land surveyor and co-founder of the modern earth survey Johann Heinrich Louis Krüger ), the ship belonged to the Sea Hydrographic Service of the GDR (SHD). On January 1, 1960, the Institute for Oceanography, where Joh. L. Krueger was based, moved from the SHD to the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . With the change, the ship was renamed Professor Albrecht Penck (after Albrecht Penck , the second director of the Institute and Museum for Oceanography in Berlin ).

The GDR used the ship not only for research trips in the North and Baltic Seas . The first GDR- Spitzbergen expedition was carried out with Professor Albrecht Penck in 1962 , and in 1964 the GDR's first Atlantic expedition led the ship into the Gulf of Guinea . After the Academy of Sciences of the GDR launched the research ship A. v. Humboldt had received, the Professor Albrecht Penck sailed mainly on the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

After German reunification , with the dissolution of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, the ship became the property of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and since 1992 has been available to the newly founded Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde (IOW). The ship, which was at sea around 200 days a year, was henceforth mainly used in the western Baltic Sea. It is equipped with a boom and a winch for research work and had four laboratories (wet, chemical, bio and computer laboratory ).

On August 21, 2010, the ship was decommissioned at the Warnemünde passenger quay. The plan was to then bring it to Stralsund and leave it to the local Nautineum for use. The state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania deviated from this plan and offered the ship for sale because it did not consider the financing of the operation in the Nautineum to be secured. It was then acquired in a bidding process by the Krebs Group, which in March 2011 agreed to cooperate with the Ozeaneum Stralsund for the use of the ship. After that, the ship was to be used in winter for “maritime education courses” and “research trips for school classes” and otherwise as a work platform for maintenance teams for offshore wind turbines . For financial reasons, the sponsoring association of the German Oceanographic Museum let the educational project and the cooperation with the cancer group expire in winter 2013. The Krebs Group, which bought the ship in 2011, used it for work on offshore wind farms and for environmental monitoring. In winter it was in Rostock .

Sea-Eye rescue ship

In autumn 2018, the ship was sold to the non-governmental organization Sea-Eye , which uses it as a rescue ship for refugees and migrants in distress in the Mediterranean .

On December 21, 2018, it sailed from Algeciras towards Libya. According to Sea-Eye, it is the first ship of a civil rescue organization to fly the German flag. On Sunday, February 10, 2019, the father of the late Alan Kurdi christened the ship in the presence of religious and political representatives, such as the Bishop of Mallorca Sebastià Taltavull i Anglada , in the port of Palma de Mallorca in the name of his drowned son.

On April 3, 2019, the ship picked up 64 people from a rubber dinghy off the Libyan coast after the Libyan authorities had not responded to radio messages, according to the ship's crew. Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini refused to land the people on the grounds that the ship was sailing under the German flag. The activists rejected the demand to go to Germany - there was not enough food and drinking water for the three to four week trip. Following an agreement, the people were brought to Malta on April 13, from where they will be distributed to Germany, France, Portugal and Luxembourg. The Alan Kurdi himself was not allowed in Malta einzulaufen.

At the beginning of July 2019 - shortly after the conflict between the rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 and the Italian authorities - the crew decided to approach the self-selected search and rescue zone off the Libyan coast; A journalist from the FAZ was also on board . On July 5, 2019, the Alan Kurdi took 65 people on board from an inflatable boat in international waters off the Libyan coast. According to the accompanying journalist, “39 were minors among those rescued. The youngest is only twelve years old. ”They came from twelve different countries, 48 ​​from Somalia, six from Sudan, the rest from Libya, Cameroon, South Sudan, Mali, Chad, Nigeria, Benin, the Ivory Coast and Guinea-Bissau . The refugee boat is said to have been overloaded, without a GPS-enabled phone or other navigation aids; there was apparently only ten liters of drinking water on the rubber dinghy, which had already been at sea for 12 hours. Attempts by Alan Kurdi to contact the Libyan authorities and the Italian rescue coordination centers were unsuccessful, according to Sea-Eye. The ship set course for Lampedusa and initially remained waiting in international waters off the Italian coast. After the ship was refused entry into the port of Lampedusa on the instructions of the Italian Ministry of the Interior, the Alan Kurdi set course for Malta. From there, entry into the port was initially prohibited, but the crew hoped to get permission to moor through international commitments to help. On July 7, 2019, the Alan Kurdi was allowed to hand over all migrants to Maltese ships after the crew had reported three medical emergencies on board.

Shortly after the ship left the waters off Malta, on July 8, 2019, according to reports, in cooperation with the Maltese authorities, it rescued 44 other people who had been discovered by the private Colibri search plane on a wooden boat. They came from Libya, Syria, Palestine and Pakistan. Again the crew was able to hand over the recovered migrants to the Maltese coast guard. The crew then decided to end their mission in the Mediterranean for the time being.

On July 31, 2019, the Alan Kurdi rescued migrants from a rubber dinghy, according to its own information, about 30 nautical miles off the Libyan coast. The 40 people stated that they came from Nigeria, Ghana, Mali, Cameroon, the Congo and the Ivory Coast. These rescued people were also initially handed over to the Maltese coast guard; however, they are to be distributed to other EU member states. At the beginning of September, the crew took in 13 migrants from Tunisia , who were gradually brought ashore as emergencies in Malta. On September 10, the last 5 migrants left the ship.

On October 26, the crew claimed to have rescued 90 people within the Libyan search and rescue zone outside of Libyan territorial waters. Libyan speedboats with armed men fired warning shots, threatened rescuers and migrants and even brought migrants on board, who then jumped back into the water and were taken on board the Alan Kurdi . After more people were taken in, the captain steered the ship with 88 migrants into Italian territorial waters near Marzamemi on November 1 without permission . The reason given was bad weather. The authorities allowed the ship to enter Taranto on the same day . The bulk of the migrants are to be brought to France and Germany, five would be distributed to Portugal and two to Ireland, according to press reports.

On November 28, the ship took 84 migrants on board off Libya, some of whom were brought to Lampedusa a little later for medical reasons. The remaining 61 were allowed to land in Sicily on December 4th.

On December 26, the crew announced that they had received an emergency call that had been relayed by the Alarm Phone Initiative . Then 32 people posing as Libyans were rescued from a plastic boat off the Libyan coast. The Alan Kurdi set course for Lampedusa. The Italian authorities finally allowed the 32 Libyan migrants to be disembarked in Pozzallo, Sicily . The migrants are to be distributed to other EU states according to the provisions of the agreement from Malta.

On January 25, the crew picked up a total of 78 people off the Libyan coast in several individual missions.

In mid-March 2020, the ship was stuck in Burriana , Spain , because the travel restrictions imposed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic made it difficult for a crew to contract.

At the beginning of April, under the command of Bärbel Beuse, the ship went again to the sea area off the Libyan coast. A little later they were informed by activists of the Alarm Phone Initiative about a call from a boat and on April 6, 2020 they recovered 68 migrants from a wooden boat. Most of the people come from Bangladesh, plus Algeria, Sudan, Guinea, Syria, Chad, Ghana and Burkina Faso. According to their own information, they were in international waters, but were harassed by a ship flying the Libyan flag, firing shots in the air. Hours later, 82 people were taken over from another boat. These come from Morocco, Bangladesh, Somalia, Senegal and Gambia. Italy and Malta refused to accept the ship on medical grounds. The Italian ministers of medicine, transport, home affairs and foreign affairs had signed the order to block it. The aid organization appealed to Germany to take the people in because the Alan Kurdi is sailing under the German flag; In addition, around 150 cities in the Safe Haven Alliance have declared their willingness to take in refugees. On April 14, 2020, German authorities reported that “a transfer to an Italian ship was specifically in preparation”. On April 17, the people were taken to the operator Tirrenia's ferryboat Rubattino , where they are to be quarantined one nautical mile off the Sicilian coast and subjected to virus tests under the supervision of the Red Cross. The church activists from United4Rescue immediately agreed to transfer 79,000 euros in order to let the Alan Kurdi expire as soon as possible.

After a quarantine period had expired, the Italian authorities imposed a ban on Alan Kurdi and Aita Mari in the first week of May 2020 because they doubted the suitability of both ships for rescue missions.

Technical specifications

The ship has an eight - cylinder four-stroke diesel engine made by VEB Schwermaschinenbau "Karl Liebknecht" with an output of 221  kW (type: 8 NVD 36-1 U). The motor acts directly on the drive shaft with a fixed propeller .

Two diesel generators , each with an output of 67 kW, are available for power supply.

See also

Web links

Commons : Professor Albrecht Penck  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Research ship is retired , Schweriner Volkszeitung , August 17, 2010. Retrieved May 26, 2015.
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  4. ↑ Ralph Sommer: Happy End for "Penck" , Schweriner Volkszeitung, March 10, 2010. Retrieved May 26, 2015.
  5. ↑ Prof. Albrecht Penck , Krebs Group (PDF, 0.7 MB). Retrieved March 9, 2016.
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