Seute Deern (ship, 1919)

Seute Deern

From 1919 flag  United States (1919–1931) Finland (1931–1938)   other ship names Elisabeth Bandi (1919–1931) Bandi (1931–1938) Shipyard Gulfport Shipbuilding Co., Gulfport Launch 1919 Commissioning 1919 Whereabouts will be scrapped

From 1938 flag  Germany other ship names Seute Deern (1938–1954) Pieter Albrecht Koerts (1954–1964) Shipyard Blohm & Voss , Hamburg (renovation)

From 1919 length 61.45 m ( Lüa ) width 11.30 m Side height 5.00 m Draft Max. 4.00 m measurement 721.38 GRT / 630.26 NRT   crew 10 men

From 1939 length 75.70 m ( Lüa ) measurement 813.57 GRT / 690.18 NRT   crew 28 men

From 1919 Rigging More beautiful Number of sails 15th Sail area 1,107 m² Speed under sail Max. 10 kn (19 km / h)

From 1939 Rigging Barque Number of masts 3 Number of sails 23 Sail area 1,418 m² Speed under sail Max. 10 kn (19 km / h)

From 1919 Load capacity 914 dw

From 1938 Load capacity 970 dw

The Seute Deern ( Low German for sweet girl ) - originally Elisabeth Bandi , later Bandi and Pieter Albrecht Koerts - is a wooden barque and restaurant ship in Bremerhaven . The ship stands since 2005 as part of the overall system German Maritime Museum under monument protection . On August 31, 2019, the Seute Deern sank in the Old Harbor . According to the expert opinion, this accident is a "constructive total loss". The costs for a possible scrapping were estimated at 2.5 million euros. It has been planned to reconstruct the ship since November 2019.

history

Manufacturing and service

In 1919, the ship struck the Gulfport ship shipyard in the US state of Mississippi as Viermast- Gaffelschoner Elisabeth Bandi from the stack . It was made from fresh wood of the swamp pine in a Kraweel construction method without copper fittings ("worm skin"), which led to extreme problems in the period that followed. The ship was constantly leaking due to warping of the hull and damage by shipworms and had to be constantly drained and repaired after each voyage. In 1925 it was sold to Walter E. Reid in Bath , Maine . The ship transported wood under the US flag before it was sold to Europe in 1931 to the Finnish shipowner William Uskanen from Sotkoma, who now also used it as a bandi in the timber trade between Finland, Denmark and England . The cool and salty Baltic Sea water stopped worm and mussel damage, so that the pumping of the ship was significantly reduced (wooden ships always had to be puffed). In 1935 the Bandi came to the Finn Laiva Bandi as the new owner, who, however, left the ship to the brokerage company Yrjänen & Kumpp, Rauma , for chartering. After three years no more cargo could be found for the sailor and on November 7, 1938 it was sold for 26,500 Reichsmarks to the Hamburg shipowner John T. Essberger . He had the wooden ship overhauled by Blohm + Voss in Hamburg and converted into a barque with a steel rig . In six months of work (December 16, 1938 - June 15, 1939) a completely renovated ship was built. A noticeable innovation on the barque was a larger than life figurehead  - a "Seute Deern", which adorned the stem and gave the barque the name Seute Deern . Until the end of the Second World War , which the barque survived thanks to prudent captains, she was used as a freight training ship in the Baltic Sea and adjacent waters. At the end of the war it was in Lübeck .

After the war, the barque was brought to the Schlichting shipyard in Travemünde in June 1946 with the help of a tug for conversion to a hotel ship. In 1947 the Seute Deern came to Hamburg in tow and lay as a hotel and restaurant ship in the harbor at the berth of the old ferry VII . Due to increasing unprofitability, the Essberger shipping company sold Seute Deern in 1954 for 40,000  marks in the Netherlands to Albert Jan Koerts, an American of Dutch origin. He donated it as a floating youth hostel in his hometown Delfzijl under the name of his father, Pieter A. Koerts (Pieter A. Koerts Foundation). After another ten years, the ship became unprofitable again due to the high maintenance costs and was sold again to Germany for 33,440 marks. New owners in 1964, the Emden hostess Erna Hardisty, new home port of Emden . The ship got its previous name Seute Deern again . Substantial expansion work on the restaurant ship was due, and the wooden ship, which was leaking again, sank at its berth, which ruined all plans. In 1965 it was sold to the businessman Hans Richartz from Helgoland for 61,000 marks. After lifting the ship, Richartz succeeded in developing the barque at the Schröder shipyard in Emden into a floating restaurant according to his own plans. On June 22, 1966 the barque was moved to her new berth in the old port of Bremerhaven.

Exhibit

In 1972 the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven received the barque as a founding gift from the city of Bremerhaven. Both cities in the state, Bremerhaven and Bremen, had the Seute Deern thoroughly overhauled again. This means that it is now one of the world's museum ships . The barque is a restaurant, museum and wedding ship in Bremerhaven in front of the Columbus Center . Over time it has become a landmark of the city of Bremerhaven.

Further extensive renovation work had to be carried out in order to maintain the Seute Deern. The ship was last docked at the beginning of the 21st century. In the 2010s it became clear that the ship had to be extensively restored in order to be preserved. So is z. B. the trunk leak . The ship was kept buoyant with the help of pumps that pumped up to 150,000 liters of water out of the hull every day.

Accident in the port

On reason

Sad ending

The last time it was repaired in 1978, 600 liters of water penetrated every day. Since there was no money, only the bare essentials were repaired. Six pumps were later installed, which finally carried 390 cubic meters of water per day outboard. On February 15, 2019, the foredeck between the inner and outer cladding not far from the galley caught fire for an unexplained cause. Planks were removed above the waterline to fight the fire. After all six pumps failed, the ship sank to the bottom of the port on August 30, 2019. A dam that was raised from harbor silt on the harbor side prevented the ship from tipping over and falling onto Columbusstrasse.

After experts analyzed the damage, the Board of Trustees of the German Maritime Museum decided in October 2019 that the Seute Deern should be scrapped. The damage was described as a "constructive total loss". The scrapping itself should take place in the port, as even a transport to a shipyard no longer seems possible. At the end of March 2020, the ship was towed into port to be scrapped.

In November 2019, the budget committee of the Bundestag decided to provide federal funds of 47 million euros for the reconstruction of the ship. The dismantling of the ship began in early 2020.

Ship data

Upper deck with main mast and wheelhouse

In square brackets as a schooner

• Construction : wooden hull as smooth decker in Kraweel , masts with rods; after conversion to a barque: steel masts, frame masts with mars and bram bars
• Rigg : Standardrigg four-masted gaff schooner with stagnation and gaff topsails; after renovation standard rig barque, double Mars , single Bramrahen , royals ; Mizzen mast with pole and 2 gaffs
• Mast sequence: as barque: fore, main and mizzen mast; as four-masted schooner: fore , main , cross and mizzen mast (German standard designation)
• Number of decks : two continuous wooden decks as schooners
• Maiden voyage : 1919 to Philadelphia
• Shipping company : Marine Coal Company, New Orleans ( Louisiana , USA)
• Other shipping companies: 1925 Walter E. Reid, 1931 William Uskanen, 1935 Yrjänen & Kumpp (Laiva Bandi), 1938 John T. Essberger, 1954 Stichting Pieter Albrecht Koerts, 1964 Erna Hardisty, 1965 Hans Richartz, 1972 German Maritime Museum Bremerhaven
• Home port : New Orleans , Bath ; Sotkoma, Rauma ; Hamburg; Delfzijl ; Emden , Bremerhaven
• Figurehead : initially none (as schooner); Female figure with headscarf ("Seute Deern") since conversion to Bark Seute Deern
• Room depth : 4.56 m [4.60 m]
• Sail area : 1,418 m² (23 sails: 10 square, 4 fore, 6 staysails , 2 besane, 1 gaff top sail ); [1,107 m² (15 sails: 4 gaff, 4 gaff top, 4 fore, 3 staysail)]
• Auxiliary drive : none
• Special features: restaurant and museum ship

figurehead

figurehead

A striking detail of the Seute Deern , the figurehead of the Bark, appeared on a German postage stamp. The Seute Deern Bremerhaven long-term stamp was released for issue on March 6, 2003, which the German Maritime Museum had declared “Museum Ships Day”. The value of the stamp is 2.60  euros .

literature

• Peter Gording (pseud. Von Helmut Schultz): Course Goldland Alaska. Lengerich: Klein 1964; extended new edition: The hellish spook began in Frisco. Balve: Engelbert 1972. (Autobiographical youth novel about the mutiny on the Elisabeth Bandi in 1919.)
• Dirk J. Peters: OCEANUM. The maritime magazine KOMPAKT. The SEUTE DEERN. Sailors in distress. Oceanum Verlag eK, Wiefelstede. ISBN 978-3-86927-702-8
• Dirk Peters : The historic barque SEUTE DEERN. 50 years in the old harbor and museum harbor in Bremerhaven . In: Men from Morgenstern , Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 797 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven May 2016, p. 3 ( digital version [PDF; 814 kB ; accessed on July 27, 2019]).
• Dirk Peters: The Bark SEUTE DEERN provided the impetus. 50 years of the Bremerhaven Shipping History Society (1966–2016) . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 802 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven October 2016, p. 1–2 ( digitized version [PDF; 10.1 MB ; accessed on July 23, 2019]).
• Hans Graulich: The story of the “Presidential Lab”. The former head chef at Seute Deern remembers . In: Men from Morgenstern, Heimatbund an Elbe and Weser estuary e. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 824 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven August 2018, p. 1–2 ( digitized version [PDF; 4.5 MB ; accessed on January 19, 2019]).

Web links

Commons : Seute Deern  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Restaurant on the Seute Deern
• The last trip of the “Seuten Deern” - in fast motion on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ^ Monument database of the LfD
2. ^ ^{A b} Heiner Otto: Sailing ship "Seute Deern" in a threatening slanting position. In: NWZ Online website. August 31, 2019, accessed August 31, 2019 .  
3. ↑ Expert opinion: "Seute Deern" is "constructive total loss"
4. ↑ Reviewers attest "Seute Deern" total loss
5. ↑ This is how complex it is to scrap the "Seute Deern"
6. ↑ New construction of the "Seute Deern" should take place in public
7. ^ Wilfried Moritz: Waiting for the shipyard date. (PDF; 1.4 MB) In: Sunday journal of the Nordsee-Zeitung . August 24, 2014, accessed June 16, 2019 .  
8. ↑ Bremerhaven: 30 million for the renovation of "Seute Deern"? In: website buten un binnen , Radio Bremen . October 18, 2017, accessed June 16, 2019 .  
9. ↑ Nina Willborn, Vanessa Ranft: Fire on the museum ship "Seute Deern" in Bremerhaven. In: Weser-Kurier website . February 16, 2019, accessed February 16, 2019 .  
10. ↑ Heiner Otto: Fire on the museum ship in Bremerhaven: Fears about the "Seute Deern". In: Website Nordwest-Zeitung . February 18, 2019, accessed February 19, 2019 .  
11. ^ Message from Peter Raap
12. ↑ Bremerhaven's landmark "Seute Deern" is being scrapped. October 23, 2019, accessed October 23, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Ailing sailing ship “Seute Deern” on its last haul
14. ↑ Federal government gives millions of euros for a replica of the "Seute Deern" - buten un inside. Retrieved November 15, 2019 . 

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 26 "  N , 8 ° 34 ′ 42"  E