Rudolf Breitscheid (ship)

Rudolf Breitscheid

The Rudolf Breitscheid in the Rostock overseas port

Ship data flag  GDR Ship type Cargo ship class Type X Callsign DEVG / Y5MG home port Rostock Owner VEB German shipping company Shipyard VEB Warnow shipyard , Warnemünde Launch March 21, 1964, build no. 516 Whereabouts aborted after stranding

Ship dimensions and crew length 142.20 m ( Lüa ) width 18.67 m Draft Max. 8.55 m measurement 7,723 GRT   crew 43 (with trainees)

Machine system machine 1 two-stroke seven-cylinder diesel engine, VEB Dieselmotorenwerk Rostock license MAN Machine performance 5,850 hp (4,303 kW) Top speed 15 kn (28 km / h) propeller 1

Transport capacities Load capacity 10,419 dwt Permitted number of passengers 4th

Others Classifications DSRK Registration numbers IMO no. 6423864

The cargo ship Rudolf Breitscheid was a merchant ship of the Deutsche Seereederei Rostock (DSR), the state shipping company of the German Democratic Republic , and the sixth of a series of sixteen Type X ships . It was built at the VEB Warnow shipyard in Rostock .

history

The cargo ship, originally planned as the Scholl sibling , was launched on March 21, 1964 under the name Rudolf Breitscheid . The Warnow shipyard in Rostock-Warnemünde handed over the finished ship with the construction number 516 to the DSR on August 31, 1964. Due to a change in the shipping company structure and renaming to Deutfracht / Seereederei Rostock, the ship was transferred to the new company on January 1, 1974. The Rudolf Breitscheid was used worldwide, especially on lines between European ports, the Gulf , India and Southeast Asia . The decline in conventional general cargo shipping led to renovation measures. The ship was supposed to be used for the transport of metal between the Lithuanian port of Klaipėda in the former Soviet Union and Rostock. On August 15, 1985, it entered the “Brodogradilište Victor Lenac” shipyard in Rijeka . There, the load compartment floor was reinforced, the loading gear removed and modern navire hatch covers installed. In December 1985, the renovation work was completed and the ship was back on the road. It was used on the planned route in the Baltic Sea.

The accident and the loss

Leaving Memel on September 24, 1988, a heavy storm pushed the deeply laden ship out of the fairway. At 9:03 p.m. there was ground contact with the following inability to maneuver. The Rudolf Breitscheid stranded on the morning of September 25 at 7:01 a.m. on the north pier in Klaipėda. Despite the rescue attempts, the ship was no longer free and broke apart. The crew was completely rescued. In December 1988 the forecastle was made buoyant and towed to Hamina in Finland to be scrapped . In the summer of 1989 the cargo consisting of 10,000 tons of sheet steel and semi-finished products was recovered. The rear part of the hull is still at the port entrance ( 55 ° 43 ′ 51.4 ″  N , 21 ° 4 ′ 44.3 ″  E Coordinates: 55 ° 43 ′ 51.4 ″  N , 21 ° 4 ′ 44.3 ″  O ) before Klaipėda.

photos

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  Rudolf Breitscheid in Rostock

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  Rudolf Breitscheid in the port of Matanzas (Cuba, summer 1973) loading sugar

literature

• German shipping companies Volume 23 VEB Deutsche Seereederei Rostock Author collective Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen, Bad Segeberg 2005, ISBN 3-928473-81-6 , page 168 ff

Web links

Commons : Rudolf Breitscheid (ship, 1963)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

1. ↑ Report on the accident ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.