Senator (ship)

senator

The Senator 2013 in Hamburg at the Mäuseturm

Ship data flag  Germany other ship names Electricity and port construction Hamburg Ship type Launch home port Hamburg Shipyard Burmester shipyard , Bremen

Ship dimensions and crew length 23.47 m ( Lüa ) width 5.12 m Draft Max. 1.62 m

Machine system machine 2 × MAN diesel engines Machine performance 284 kW (386 hp)

Others Registration numbers ENI number 05108760

The Senator is a former Hamburg Senate launch.

history

The ship was built in the early 1940s for the Gauleiter of Hamburg, Karl Kaufmann , but it was never completed. After the war, the Hamburgische Strom- und Hafenbau had the Hamburg built from the hull at the Burmester shipyard in Bremen , which the water police took over as a passenger ship for official guests a little later .

On January 1, 1972, it was again taken over by the electricity and port construction department and was extensively modernized at the Pohl & Jozwiak shipyard . There was an elegant large salon and a small salon. From September 1972, the Senate launch under the name Strom- und Hafenbau was used to tour the Port of Hamburg by senate guests, including the Queen of England and the King of Tonga.

At the end of 2002 the Senate launch was decommissioned by the city for reasons of economy, and the tradition that began with the Schaarhörn came to an end. Most recently, operating costs of around 290,000 euros a year were incurred. The ship was taken over at the beginning of March 2003 for around 150,000 euros by a Hamburg launch operator who, as a Senator, got it back on the road.

Web links

• Data sheet of the ship (PDF; 240 kB)

Footnotes

1. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt , Historical Archive, No. 136 of June 14, 1973, page 4
2. ↑ Elisabeth Stimming: Saved? Senate barge is on the strike list , Hamburger Abendblatt, June 24, 2002.
3. ^ Veit Ruppersberg: Lack of money: Hamburg sells its Senate barge , Hamburger Abendblatt, February 12, 2003.
4. ↑ Sale of the Senate Barge  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , Small written question from MP Ingo Egloff (SPD) from February 18, 2003, printed matter 17/2256, Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, February 28, 2003.
5. ↑ Senate launch is now called "Senator" , Die Welt , March 5, 2003.