Seefalke (ship, 1924)

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The Seefalke rescue tug in the museum harbor of the German Maritime Museum
The Seefalke rescue tug in the museum harbor of the German Maritime Museum
Ship data
flag GermanyGermany Germany
Ship type Salvage tug
Callsign DDSR
Shipyard Joh. C. Tecklenborg , Geestemünde
Whereabouts Museum ship , German Maritime Museum
Ship dimensions and crew
length
58.50 m ( Lüa )
width 9.00 m
Draft Max. 4.40 m
measurement 509 GRT
after conversion 619 GRT
 
crew 19th
Machine system
machine 2 × diesel engine
Machine
performance 		3300 hp
Top
speed 		13.5 kn (25 km / h)

The Seefalke is a former salvage tug that was built in 1924 at the Tecklenborg shipyard for the W. Schuchmann shipping company .

technology

Engine room of the sea ​​falcon

The ship was initially equipped with two MAN engines. 1942 they were during a reconstruction of the ship by two six-cylinder - diesel engines of the manufacturer Deutz , each with 1,650  hp power replaced.

history

The tug was mainly used in Europe to rescue ships in distress. In 1928 the Seefalke towed the large cruiser SMS Moltke , which was sunk in Scapa Flow in 1919, to Rosyth, Scotland, for scrapping.

In 1945 the tug was sunk in the port during an air raid on Kiel . When the victorious powers wanted to fill the harbor basin in which the tug had sunk with rubble after the Second World War, the shipping company had the ship secretly lifted and sunk again in the outer fjord . After the allies lifted the rescue bans in 1950, it was lifted again and repaired at the Seebeck shipyard in Bremerhaven , before being put back into service.

The tug has been in the museum harbor of the German Maritime Museum in the old harbor in Bremerhaven since 1970 .

The tugboat has been under monument protection since 2005 as part of the cultural monument "German Maritime Museum and Museum Fleet" .

Since March 1, 1976, the club station of the Bremerhaven branch of the German Amateur Radio Club has been located in the former radio room of the ship .

literature

Web links

Commons : Seefalke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tug "Seefalke" , Seefunk & Seeschiffahrt. Retrieved November 2, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c Sea rescue tug "Seefalke" ( Memento from June 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Werften & Stadtgeschichte Bremerhaven. Retrieved November 2, 2011
  3. ^ A b c Sea rescue tug "Seefalke" , German Maritime Museum. Retrieved May 13, 2019.
  4. ^ Monument database of the State Office for Monument Preservation Bremen
  5. ^ Local association Bremerhaven , German Amateur Radio Club e. V. Accessed November 2, 2011

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 29 "  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 38"  E