Kümo 840

**North *Star* series**
Ship data
Ship type	Multipurpose dry cargo ship
Shipyard	VEB Peene-Werft, Wolgast ; MTW, Wismar
Construction period	1960 to 1963
Units built	25th
Cruising areas	Worldwide coastal travel
Ship dimensions and crew
length	59.44 m ( Lüa ) 53.00 m ( Lpp )
width	9.80 m
Side height	5.80 m
Draft	Max. 3.60 m
measurement	617 BRT ; 230 NRT
crew	19, later 10
Machine system
machine	1 × R8DV148 diesel engine
Machine ; performance	405 kW (551 hp)
Top ; speed	10.0 kn (19 km / h)
propeller	1 × propeller
Transport capacities
Load capacity	840 dw
Others
Classifications	DSRK
Remarks
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The coasters type Kümo 840, as a series North Star were known, a series of Peene shipyard in Wolgast from the time of the GDR .

history

The Algenib and Schedir

The series was manufactured from 1960 to 1963 in 25 units. The 23 ships delivered to the Deutsche Seereederei (DSR) were named after stars in the northern sky and after places in Mecklenburg. They were mainly used in the large coastal voyages in the North and Baltic Seas and up to the Mediterranean. The ship type was based on the Kümo 500 or the Wolgast series, also developed by the Peene shipyard .

The first ship and namesake of the whole series was the Nordstern with hull number 47, which was handed over to DSR on March 31, 1960. Two ships of the series, the Algenib and Schedir of the DSR stock, were sold to the Vietnamese state shipping company in 1960 as Thon Nhuit and Doc-Lap to hand over.

The end of the series was the goods delivered on June 4, 1963 with construction number 90.

The Bellatrix and the Malchin were later converted into glue tankers .

The Rostock-based Nordstern has been used as a workshop ship for VEB Binnenreederei Anklam since 1978.

In 1979 the Poel also went to Vietnam as a solidarity gift.

technology

The type designation was originally derived from the load capacity (839.6 tons). The technical changes initiated by the client, such as ice reinforcement according to Finnish ice class Ic, higher superstructures and more modern, heavier boat launching devices, however, reduced the calculated useful load to approx. 760 tons. The ships were therefore temporarily designated as Kümo 760, but this did not prevail.

The ships are propelled by a 405 kW four-stroke diesel engine of the type R 8 DV 148 from the Magdeburg manufacturer VEB Schwermaschinenbau "Karl Liebknecht", which acts directly on the fixed propeller (diameter: 2.10 m) .

The hulls are welded , the deck structure is made of light metal , as in the Kümo 500 series .

The cargo hold with a ball space of 1456 m ³ and grain space of 1550 m ³ had two hatches, an intermediate deck, was divided by a transverse bulkhead and sealed with conventional shear bars , lids and tarpaulins so that it is seaworthy. The loading gear consisted of two on- board luffing cranes supplied by VEB Kranbau , Eberswalde, each for a 3 tonne load.

Radio equipment

The ships received the following radio equipment when they were put into service

Main transmitter RFT 1410.17A5, 25 W.
Emergency transmitter RFT 1410.17A5 with battery
Receiver RFT 1410.17A6
Telefunken SE102 / 2 lifeboat station

The ships

Building name	Construction number	IMO number	Launching / delivery	Auftrag- donor	Renaming and whereabouts
*The ships of the Kümo 840* series**
Arcturus	48	5022558	- 01/14/1960	DSR	1980 Manal S (Lebanon) sunk after explosion
Gemma	50	5127504	- 3.03.1960	DSR	1981 Merdeka , scrapped in 1984
Vega	51	5387221	March 19, 1960	DSR	Al Wafa (Syria), 1983 total loss.
North star	47	5255741	March 31, 1960	DSR	From 1978 used as a workshop ship of the VEB inland shipping company Anklam and scrapped in 1991
Algenib	63	5910830	- April 20, 1960	DSR	1960 as Thon Nhuit to Vietnam
Schedir	66	5315199	- April 20, 1960	DSR	1960 as Doc-Lap to Vietnam, Thong Nhat Tk-154 , 1994 Visal 09 , 1995 total loss
Denebola	49	5088617	- July 25, 1960	DSR	1981 My Charm , scrapped in 1985
Atair	60	5028071	- 23.08.1960	DSR	1979 Avon (Panama), 1980 My Destiny (Cyprus), 1983 Afedula M (Cyprus), 1988 Theofania I , 1992 Vema , 1995 Gwendolen (Honduras), 1995 Wilhelmina , 1995 Penny , 2001 Elpidoforos (Honduras), 2002 Lisa Star (Tonga ), 2004 Fair Jane (Tonga), 2005 Hamada I (North Korea), 2008 Reda (Sierra Leone), 2013 Rose
Deneb	61	5088590	- 9.09.1960	DSR	1979 Mersey , 1982 Hye Meng I , 1992 Coral Yellow
Markab	62	5225772	October 29, 1960	DSR	1977 Eurabia Lake , 1978 Adera , 1989 Voyager , canceled in 1989.
Sirrah	64	5330278	- November 15, 1960	DSR	1979 Palma (Honduras), 1979 Humber (Panama), 1980 Palma (Greece), 1980 Alexandros G (Greece), 1986 Nicholaos D (Greece), 1990 Atlas (Greece), 1991 Titan (Honduras), 1996 Agios Gerassimos (Belize) , 2001 Izo Star (Tonga), 2002 Agios Nikolaos (Comoros), 2003 Al-Aabed (North Korea)
Aldebaran	67	5009518	- April 19, 1961	DSR	1977 Eurabia Bay (Lebanon), 1978 Athlos II (Cyprus), 1982 Stavros V (Honduras), 1989 Tai Pan , 1989 Aldebaran (Honduras), 1991 Tai Pan , 1993 Taipan , 1993 Pearl
Capella	72	5062106	05/25/1961	DSR	The Capella , which was leaked in the hurricane named after her, capsized and sank in January 1976 while attempting to enter the Borkum protective harbor. All eleven crew members were killed.
Bellatrix	73	5039850	November 10, 1958 August 23, 1961	DSR	In 1965 converted into a glue tanker by the Mercantile shipyard in Antwerp, from February 1985 workshop ship in Wismar, from May 8, 1992 scrapped by J. Bakker & Zoon in Bruges.
Malchin	74	5218298	February 20, 1959 August 25, 1961	DSR	In 1974 converted into a glue tanker by the Aalborg shipyard in Aalborg, converted into a cattle transporter in 1992, Bader II in 1993 , Angus in 2000 , Santa in 2004, scrapped in India from September 13, 2004.
Poel	75	5280198	- 9.12.1961	DSR	February 19, 1979 as a solidarity gift to Vietnam Song Ba , 2009 Hong Shu Lin
Putbus	76	5287550	- 9.12.1961	DSR	1979 Aurora (Honduras), 1980 Shark (Honduras), 1981 Archon (Greece), 1984 Putbus (Honduras)
Riems Island	77	5161811	June 3, 1959 December 27, 1961	DSR	1981 Ari , 1988 El Ri , 1988 Lupus , 1989 Carlsberg , 1989 Navigo , 1994 Watering Bay , 1994 Nordia , 1997 Watering Bay , deleted from the register on January 12, 2012.
Rerik	78	5293303	- 29.12.1961	DSR	1981 Norma
Stavenhagen	86	5339298	- 29.12.1961	DSR	Peter scrapped in 1983
Ückermünde	87	5371961	March 31, 1962	DSR	Orzival scrapped in 1988.
Vilm	89	5414270	04/29/1963	DSR	Frederique Leonie scrapped in 1980.
Vitte	88	5414311	May 10, 1960 March 31, 1963	DSR	Completed as hull number 701 by MTW, 1979 Sunship , wrecked off Lossiemouth on March 14, 1980 and scrapped from May 27, 1980 at the Thomas W. Ward shipyard in Inverkeithing.
Zinnowitz	97	5414464	February 10, 1961 April 13, 1963	DSR	Completed as hull number 704 by MTW, 1981 Queen Vassiliki , 1985 Diana Adual , 1985 Capetan Nicholas , 1986 La Paz , 1986 Ortano , 1990 Alisios , 1997 Saoseo , 2002 Ovarb , 2004 Sporades Star , 2006 Hong Shulin .
Were	90	5422992	4th June 1963	DSR	Completed as hull number 703 by MTW, Sea Carrier in 1980 , Sea Carrier I in 1981, Betty S in 1981, sank on December 21, 1982 on a trip from Aveiro to Rochester with paper rolls after flooding in tow.

literature

Manfred Neumann, Dietrich Strobel: From the cutter to the container ship . Ships from GDR shipyards in text and images. 1st edition. VEB Verlag Technik, Berlin 1981, DNB 810797593 .