The later tanker Schwarzheide was built in 1947 in the Swedish shipyard Kockums Mekaniska Verksteds A / B in Malmö . It was launched on July 9, 1947 as Gauthiod for the Scandinavian shipping company Rederi A / B Svea , based in the Swedish capital Stockholm . In October of the same year, it was already operational by the shipping company.
The increasing demand for mineral oil in the GDR led to the decision to buy another tanker. Gauthiod was chosen in April 1960 . An important reason for buying this ship was the so-called stern oiling device , which was used to lighten larger tankers in the roadstead of the port of Wismar . These large ships could not call at the Wismar port, and the more modern overseas port of Rostock was still under construction in 1960. On April 30, 1960, the flag change took place in Bremerhaven , and the ship went under the name Schwarzheide . It was named after the town of Schwarzheide in the south of Brandenburg in what is now the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district because of the Schwarzheide synthesis plant located there .
After almost nine years of service for the German shipping company Rostock, the Schwarzheide was decommissioned on January 15, 1969 and deleted from the fleet list. She was sold to the Spanish company Recuperaciones Submarines SA. based in Santander . On February 18, the ship reached Santander to be scrapped.
More ships of the Hobby Horse Movement
Cargo ship Kap Arkona (date of handover to the DSR: November 12, 1958)
German shipping companies Volume 23 VEB Deutsche Seereederei Rostock Author collective Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen ISBN 3-928473-81-6
Gerd Peters: The purchase of old tonnage ships for the GDR merchant fleet. Poetry and truth about the hobby horse movement. In: Full ahead. For sailors and friends of seafaring. Issue No. 12, May 2007, pp. 4/5. Type IV driving people eV (publisher), Rostock 2007
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