Regina (ship)

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Regina
REGINA 6440.jpg
Ship data
Ship type tractor
Owner MTV-Nautilus eV
Shipyard Bremen volcano
Build number 900
Commissioning March 1966
Decommissioning February 1987
Whereabouts Technical monument in Vegesack
Ship dimensions and crew
length
18.50 m ( Lüa )
width 6.50 m
Draft Max. 2.65 m
displacement 99.60 t
 
crew 2-3 men
Machine system
machine Voith-Schneider drive
Machine
performance 		600 hp (441 kW)
Top
speed 		10.50 kn (19 km / h)

The Regina is a former shipyard tug and is now a technical monument on the Maritime Mile in the Vegesack City Garden in Vegesack .

history

The Regina was built in 1965/66 with the construction number 900 on the Bremer Vulkan for personal use. It was used to fish larger pieces of wood and chains from the Weser after the launch. The next task was to move the shipyard's own floating crane . Occasionally the Regina was also used for company excursions and business trips.

As a result of serious machine damage, it was taken out of service in 1987, as the operational requirements had changed in the meantime after a fundamental modernization of the shipyard. In 1988, the Bremer Vulkan transferred the tug to the MTV Nautilus association , which had been founded the year before, and which over the next two years completely restored it and converted it into a technical monument.

At the end of 1990 the Regina was erected as a technical monument on the Weser promenade in Bremen-Vegesack with the help of the Athlet II floating crane . From 2003 to 2008 the tug was used by the MTV youth group as a club house, until they moved to the club's new nautilus house.

The former on-board workshop as an amateur radio club station.

Since September 2017, the Regina has been used by members of the German Amateur Radio Club eV (DARC, local association I14) as a club radio station. The Vegesack radio amateurs , in cooperation with the MTV Nautilus, have converted the former workshop room of the tugboat into a radio room from which they can use various analog and digital modes of operation worldwide (on shortwave, but also e.g. in 2 m and 70 cm tape). The club station has the call sign DK0MTR (the suffix MTR of the call sign stands for "Maritime Tradition Regina").

From spring to autumn, the Regina is open to the public every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (or until dusk falls). The visitors can then inspect the tractor from inside and outside free of charge and, if interested, have the radio system demonstrated.

literature

  • Shipyard tug Regina. History and technology of the ship on the Vegesack Weser promenade. Published by MTV Nautilus: Bremen 2009

Web links

Commons : Regina  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MTV Working Group on Maritime History, Ekkehard Büge: Shipyard tug REGINA - history and technology of the ship on the Vegesack Weser promenade . Ed .: Maritime Tradition Vegesack Nautilus eV 2nd edition. Bremen November 2013, p. 72 .
  2. ↑ The tug REGINA on the promenade is now equipped with a radio station | VEGESACK MARITIME. Accessed April 4, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ DARC OV I14 - Clubstation DK0MTR. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ DARC OV I14 - Dates. Retrieved April 4, 2019 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 10 ′ 20 "  N , 8 ° 36 ′ 31.8"  E