Heron (ship, 1914)
The Reiher was a fishing logger that was used by the Navy as an auxiliary warship during the Second World War and, after the war, initially under the German flag, from 1955 with multiple modifications and changing tasks under the Norwegian flag, until it sank in 1999.
Construction and technical data
The ship was in February 1914 on the yard of JS Figee in Vlaardingen ( The Netherlands ) as a sail lugger from the stack and was from the Bremen-Vegesack Fisheries Society in Vegesack with the name herons and the external identification provided BV 43 in service. It was 24.33 m long and 6.65 m wide, had a draft of 2.82 m and was measured with 99 GRT and 74 NRT.
fate
Under the German flag
The ship drove for the BVFG until the beginning of the Second World War. In June 1925 it was extended at the C. Lühring shipyard in Hammelwarden and equipped with a four-stroke two-cylinder diesel engine from Deutz with 100 hp . The previous sailing rigging has been removed. The ship was now 26.8 m long and measured at 120 GRT or 62 NRT.
On October 9, 1939, it was requisitioned by the Navy and put into service with the 2nd port protection flotilla in Wilhelmshaven under the designation H 244 . The flotilla was renamed the Wilhelmshaven harbor protection flotilla in early July 1942 and the heron was given the new name DW 44 .
After the end of the war, the heron was returned to its former owner in July 1945 - uninteresting as war booty because of its age - and used again in the herring fishery.
Under the Norwegian flag
In September 1955 the ship was sold to Norway and the new owners, Rasmus and Mikal Ellingsen on Utsira , had it converted into a fishing and cargo ship by Terje Welles Båtbyggeri in Egersund . The now Sirahav (Code: R-21-U) called ship with home port Haugesund was now 30.05 m long, measured with 113 GRT and 57 NRT, and had a carrying capacity of 155 dwt . In 1959, a two-stroke two-cylinder diesel engine with 150 hp produced by Finnøy Gear & Propeller in 1953 was installed. From 1963 the Sirahav , with a slightly reduced load capacity of 148 tdw, was operated by new owners, Lars Jektevåg in Steinesvåg on Finnøy and Odd Førre from Haugesund. In 1968 it was sold again, this time to Ivar Petterson from Vik i Sogn ; Haugesund remained home port, however. It was not until the sale to Agnar Aas from Stamneshella ( Vaksdal municipality ) in 1970 that the company moved to the home port of Bergen . In 1975 a two-stroke five-cylinder diesel from Wichmann with 375 hp was installed. In 1979 Agnar and Torbjørn Aas sold the ship to Ragnar Vatsö from Bremanger , who renamed it Frøysjø . After another change of ownership in October 1984 to Gunvald Sundsøy from Florø , a 1976 built 240 hp four-stroke eight-cylinder engine from Detroit Diesel was installed; Home port was now Florø.
Already in July 1987 there was another sale to Steinar Antonsen in Hammerfest , who renamed the ship Veronica and registered it in Hammerfest ( IMO number 5329865). His son Torgeir Antonsen had it converted into a live fish transporter in 1990 and installed a four-stroke six-cylinder diesel from Cummins with 507 hp; after the conversion, the Veronica had 125 GRT and 63 NRT. The owner of Veronica changed two more times : from May 1994 it was Veronica A / S in Hammerfest, from November 1998 Havfangst A / S in Hansnes .
The now 85-year-old ship sank off the Norwegian west coast in 1999.
Footnotes
- ↑ That she, as in the Ship History Archive Flensburg: Veronica ( Memento of the original from March 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. claims that it sank off Rügen in 1944, but was then lifted and repaired again during the war, appears unlikely.
- ^ Company website
- ↑ The Norwegian marine diesel manufacturer Wichmann was taken over by the Finnish Wärtsilä group in 1986 and has been run as Wärtsilä Norway ever since.
