Seute Deern (ship, 1939)
The Seute Deern ( Low German for "Sweet Girl") - originally Havet , later Noona Dan - is a gaff - ketch (two-master) that was originally built as a cargo sailing ship.
In 1961/1962 she sailed around the world as the Danish research vessel Noona Dan and gave its name to the Noona Dan expedition in the Pacific that was carried out with her . In the following years she was used as the last full-time sailing training ship of the German merchant navy .
Since 1973 the Seute Deern has been used by the Clipper Club , the first German Sail-Training Club of its kind, to convey traditional seamanship to those interested on mostly one-week sailing trips . Today, the Seute Deern mainly sails the German and Danish Baltic Sea, with occasional trips to the Eastern Baltic Sea. In winter it lies in the hibernation port of Hamburg-Harburg . Her sails, traditionally tan-colored for many years , have now been gradually replaced by white sails.
Ship history
1939–1963: Under the Danish flag
If smoked was (under the name "Havet" dt. : Sea) in oak on the shipyard J. Ring-Andersen Skibsværft in the Danish Svendborg built for Captain Charles M. Lorenzen. Lorenzen, who had fished schooners off the coast of Alaska for several years , had a strong influence on the construction plans of the ship, which later became a prototype for three other sailors (including the Bel Espoir II, built by the same shipyard after the Second World War) . After it was launched in 1939, the ship made its first voyage to Lübeck to transport a load of coal to Denmark. Lorenzen used the ship for cargo travel in coastal waters for over 16 years.
In 1956 the ship was acquired by the Danish shipping company J. Lauritzen from Copenhagen and renamed “Noona Dan”. After some modifications, the ship was used as a training ship for the seafaring school in Svendborg. His travels led to the waters of Greenland , once even in winter.
In the fall of 1960, the J. Lauritzen shipping company agreed to provide the ship for a Danish state expedition to the South Pacific. Extensive renovations were carried out for this purpose: In addition to accommodation for a regular crew of six (captain, helmsman, machinist, cook and two sailors), rooms for six scientists as well as a laboratory and a darkroom were installed. In addition, there was a galley with a refrigerator and a new wheelhouse with modern navigation instruments on deck, including a radio direction finder, echo sounder and radio telephone. The old wheelhouse behind it was set up as a writing room for the scientists. In addition, an additional auxiliary engine room and - in today's exhibition - tanks for fuel and drinking water were installed.
On April 10, 1961, the Noona Dan sailed from the port of Copenhagen under Captain Jörgen Kaas Narup and First Officer Paul Majlund Nielsen. The expedition was considered to be internationally important, so that many onlookers came and even the UN flag was hoisted next to the Danish state flag, a university pennant and the shipping company flag . The route of the so-called Noona Dan expedition led via the Canary Islands and the Panama Canal to the Indo-Australian islands of Suva ( Fiji Islands), Bellona ( Solomon Islands ), then on to New Guinea and the Philippines . On the trip, the scientists carried out studies in the fields of zoology , geography , botany , ethnology and anthropology . During the one and a half year voyage, different scientists lived on board, whereas the permanent crew was not changed. The return to Europe took place around the Cape of Good Hope , so that the ship, which was painted mennig red at the time, had once circumnavigated the world in an east-west direction at the end of the voyage in late 1962. Then the Noona Dan was launched in Svendborg until April 1963 .
1963–1970: Training ship of the German merchant navy and launch
In the early 1960s, the German Training Ship Association was looking for a training ship. The association had not had a sailing training ship going to sea since 1944 and had trained prospective seafarers since 1952 as a "stationary form of training" on board the decommissioned Windjammer training ship Germany . In the 1950s there had been another attempt, most recently by the Foundation for Training Ships, to enable sailing training on a tall ship on the two four-masted barques Pamir and Passat . But since 1957 the Pamir sank and the Passat was decommissioned a few weeks later, there had been no more practical sailing training in the German merchant navy . Many seafarers and shipowners considered basic sailing training to be useful even in times of machine-operated ships in order to teach a feeling for wind, weather and waves and generally practical seamanship . Based on the experience with the Pamir and the Passat , the new ship should be significantly smaller than the two windjammers and no longer be used worldwide, but in the North and Baltic Seas . The German Training Ship Association approached the Foundation for Training Ships for financing, which had funds from the insurance premiums for the Pamir , which could only be spent on a training ship, and from the sale of the Passat to the city of Lübeck . Finally, the Noona Dan was considered as a suitable ship , which had proven to be very reliable on her previous voyages.
In April 1963, the German training ship association and the foundation for training ships bought the Noona Dan for a price of 14,000 pounds sterling , which they raised in equal parts, and transferred the ship to Travemünde . After several months of negotiations between the two owners, the federal states and the Federal Ministry of Transport about assuming the costs for a conversion and the intended use, the German Training Ship Association took over the costs for the conversion of the ship. In October 1963 the Noona Dan was transferred to the Lürssen shipyard in the Bremen suburb of Vegesack , then extensive changes began according to the plans of Captain Otto Hattendorf, which gave the ship its present appearance. After the Pamir capsized and the Passat had a near-accident in 1957, particular importance was attached to the stability (security against capsizing) of the ship: The keel of the ship was made of iron and the ballast of the ship was reinforced (16 tons in the keel, 18 tons in the floor walls , i.e. in strong cross members in the double floor of the ship). Representatives of Germanischer Lloyd and the See-Berufsgenossenschaft later assessed the stability after a test drive with the highest rating (class GL + 100A4). In addition, the ship was now rigged as a ketch with ten sails , and accommodations were created for a five-man crew and 24 cadets (including in hammocks). After the renovation, the ship was renamed “Seute Deern” by the godmother Mrs. von Rantzau. Home port was Oldenburg , where traditionally all ships of the German School Ship Association were registered.
On April 30, 1964, the Seute Deern was put into operation under Captain Günter Ulrichs and First Officer Hartmut Schäfer as a sailing training ship for the German merchant navy. Over the next three years, more than 1500 prospective deck officers were trained on 75 voyages. In 1967 the trips were stopped because the German Training Ship Association and the Foundation for Training Ships could no longer bear the annual expenses. From June 1967 onwards, Norddeutsche Lloyd (NDL) chartered the Seute Deern and carried out four to six weeks of hard training trips on it under the direction of Captain Wende and later Captain Schäfer. By December 23, 1969, 420 sailor students drove the Seute Deern on journeys totaling 9400 nautical miles (approx. 17,400 km). - On January 1, 1970, training at the nautical schools was reformed. The Seute lass was alongside the former sail training ship training ship Germany in Bremen launched . In 1971 a group around Günther Ohlf planned to let the ship go again. but the plan failed at the first exit, when the Seute lass in an accident in Bremerhaven her bowsprit lost.
From 1972/73: Traditional training ship for recreational sailors
In 1972 the Seute Deern was temporarily put back into operation on the initiative of former cadets: She sailed on the regatta of the Sail Training Association (STA) from Cowes on the Isle of Wight in southern England to Malmö in Sweden and then on to Kiel for the windjammer parade Operation Sail , which took place in Kiel in 1972 on the occasion of the Olympic Games. It was the first time that so many tall ships had arrived in a German port since the end of World War II. Even before the end of the event, some of the participants wished to “enable young people who are enthusiastic about seafaring to experience traditional sailing”. Since there were no organizations in Germany at that time that offered anything comparable, the founding meeting of the Clipper DJS - Clipper Deutsches Jugendwerk zur See e. V. - held, who should perform this task.
From July 1973 the club chartered the Seute Deern for its sailing trips. Since then, the Seute Deern has been used from spring to autumn for trips with paying - especially young - guests. From 1979/1980 to 1990, the ship was also transferred to the Canary Islands every two years in winter , otherwise it is mainly used on the German and Danish Baltic Sea from April to October, with occasional trips to the eastern Baltic Sea.
In 2000, the Clipper DJS association bought a proportion of Seute Deern : It then belonged to an owner association of Clipper DJS and the Foundation for Training Vessels until it was fully owned by the association in 2010, in accordance with the contract.
Repeatedly has Seute lass of tall ships events Select as the Tall Ships 'Races (formerly Cutty Sark Tall Ships' Races ) participated. In 2003 the ship won the Florence Cup on this windjammer regatta from Gdynia in Poland to Turku in Finland and from Riga ( Latvia ) to Travemünde - the prize for the best ship in its size class (so-called class B: ships between 30.5 and 46.5 Meters in length) on both sections.
In winter, the Seute Deern lies most of the time in the wintering port in Hamburg-Hafen, where the annual maintenance work (e.g. preserving the wood) is carried out on a voluntary basis. In addition, she regularly drives to J. Ring-Andersen Skibsværft for professional maintenance tasks (e.g. caulking in the dry dock ) , on which she was once built. Over the past few years, the Seute Deern has also been equipped with modern navigation instruments including a computer, and it is also equipped according to German safety standards for traditional ships. Outwardly, the Seute Deern largely retains the image of a traditional wooden sailor.
Ship data
| Type | Gaff - ketch |
| Callsign | DDGU (since 1963) |
| home port | Bremen |
| Hull | Wood |
| measurement | originally 97 gross register tonnes (GRT) from 1963: 105 GRT |
| Length over all (Lüa) | 36 m |
| width | 7.15 m |
| Draft | 3.4 m |
| Height of the main mast | 26 m |
| Sail area | 332 m² |
| Machine ("motor") | Volvo Penta 290 hp |
| sail | 9; Usually up to 7 are set (2 gaff sails , 4 headsails , 1 topsail ) |
| crew | Today 30 berths, mostly 6 men permanent crew (captain, 3 helmsmen, 1 machinist, 1 cook) |
See also
- Clipper DJS
- Training ships for merchant shipping
- Consequences of the sunset of the Pamir - the end of the German merchant navy's sailing school shipping
swell
- This article was created using material from Seute Deern on clipper-djs.org ( Memento from August 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), www.tallship-fan.de and www.schulschiff-deutschland.de . The following should also be mentioned in detail:
- ↑ a b c d e f newsletter "Yellow Post" No. 34 of the Clipper DJS association : The story of the sailor Seute Deern ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed December 1, 2006)
- ^ German School Ship Association - the story: What remained is "School Ship Germany". The German School Ship Association was founded 100 years ago ( Memento from February 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed December 1, 2006)
- ↑ Circular “Yellow Post” No. 34 from the Clipper DJS association : Speech by the chairman of the ship's council, Nikolaus E. Kern, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of “Clipper - Deutsches Jugendwerk zur See e. V. "on the occasion of the annual general meeting 1998 in Bremen ( Memento from July 19, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed December 3, 2006)
- ^ Website of the Clipper DJS association : This is CLIPPER ( Memento of December 6, 1998 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed December 1, 2006)
- ↑ Circular "Yellow Post" No. 44 of the Clipper DJS Association : 30 Years of Clipper (1973–2003) ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed December 1, 2006)
- ↑ Knut Frisch: Seute and Jonny right in the middle. STA Regatta 2003. ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) “Yellow Post” circular No. 44 from the Clipper DJS association (accessed January 11, 2007)
literature
- Arvid Klemensen: Med Noona Dan in Sydhavet. Grafisk forlag, Copenhagen 1964, OCLC 15001875 . (Klemensen took part in the journey of the Seuten Deern - then Noona Dan - to the South Seas)
- German-language edition: People in the South Seas. A journey of discovery. Translated from Danish by FK Henriksen. Leopold Stocker Verlag , Graz / Stuttgart 1965, DNB 452446473 .
Web links
- Today's owner's website
- Short portrait of Seuten Deern on tallship-fan.de , with further references