Rantum (ship)
 The Rantum in the NOK
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The Rantum was built in 1953 by the Nobiskrug shipyard for the Thomas Entz & Sohn shipping company as a cargo ship. The correspondent owner was the Nordfriesische Reederei GmbH in Rendsburg.
history
Born in 1899, Thomas Johann Gottfried Entz worked for the shipping company Zerssen & Co. in Rendsburg, which his father ran from 1924 . With the "Glückauf" he acquired his first cargo steamer and acquired three more ships by the beginning of the Second World War. With the support of the shipping company Harald Schuldt from Hamburg, Thomas Johann Gottfried Entz achieved his resumption as a shipowner after the Second World War with the Hörnum (2350 GRT) in 1948 . The later new buildings also bore the names of existing or submerged places on the island of Sylt . The Rendsburg shipping company Thomas Entz & Sohn ordered the freighter Rantum in 1952 , which completed its test drive in June 1953 and was then delivered.
On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of Zerssen & Co., the Minister of the Interior of Schleswig-Holstein granted the shipowner Thomas Johann Gottfried Entz the right to use the suffix “von Zerssen” with immediate effect. The name was changed at the request of the von Zerssen family.
Ship description
The Rantum had a length Lpp of 103.5 m and a width of 15 m. She was measured as a freighter with 4235 GRT as a full-decker and had a load capacity of 5930 tdw. The low-speed two-stroke engine Fiat-Borsig type 686 T, built under license by Borsig in Berlin, had a rated output of 2648 kW. It was the first heavy oil engine built in Germany, it gave the ship a nominal speed of 14 kn with a daily fuel consumption of 13 t. The ship had a crew of 37 and facilities for 10 passengers.
swell
- Ship list 1957, Eckardt & Messtorff Verlag, Hamburg 11 Steinhöft 1
- Zerssen & Co 1839 1964, 1964; Heinrich Möller Sons, Rendsburg