Hobby horse (ship)
 Side view of the freighter Hobby Horse
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The cargo ship Hobby Horse was a merchant ship of the GDR - state shipping company VEB Deutsche Seereederei Rostock (DSR). It was bought abroad and paid for with convertible foreign currency from the Hobby Horse movement initiated by the Radebeul company VEB Hobby Horse.
history
The Hobby Horse was a ship built in 1936. The launch with hull number 628 took place on July 21, 1936 in Sunderland at the William Doxford & Sons shipyard . The ship went under the name Skipsea for the shipping company Sea Steamship Co. and with the home port Hull in Great Britain . In 1938 the ship became the property of BJ Sutherland & Co. Ltd. over and continued his journey under the name Cromarty . The new home port was Newcastle .
From 1954 the ship was operated under the name Ostbris for the Swedish company Rederi A / B Bris in Stockholm , which sold it to JE Manne & Co. in Gothenburg in 1958 .
In the same year it was bought with funds from the Hobby Horse Movement and initially rebuilt at the Warnow shipyard in Warnemünde and adapted to the state of the art at the time. On January 5, 1959, the ship was handed over to the Deutsche Seereederei Rostock as a hobby horse .
The “ceremonial commissioning of the flagship of the Hobby Horse fleet ” was filmed by DEFA and can be seen with the following scenes in the documentary Der Augenzeuge 1959 / A 5 : “Fleet in the port of Warnemünde, including the flagship on the quay; crew in 2 rows on the ship; Heinrich Rau (Minister for Foreign and Inner German Trade of the GDR) on the speaker's platform; Handover of the ship to the captain Walter Jenß; 2 sailors pull up a pennant with the inscription "DSR"; saluting captain; Heinrich Rau enters the flagship; Ship's control room; rotating antenna; Masts on the ship; View through the lifebuoy ”.
After mainly in Levante transport was used, which was hobbyhorse canceled and on 20 February 1968 from the fleet list of DSR sold. Then the freighter was used until June 1973 as Pelopidas 2 under the Cypriot flag with the home port Famagusta . The owner at this time was the Mgrs. Alassia Steamship Co. Ltd. in London . In 1973 the ship went to Kaohsiung (Taiwan) to be scrapped .
More ships of the Hobby Horse Movement
- Cargo ship Kap Arkona (date of handover to the DSR: November 12, 1958)
- Cargo ship Stubbenkammer (December 17, 1958)
- Cargo ship Stoltera (February 26, 1959)
- Tanker Rositz (March 28, 1960)
- Tanker Schwarzheide (April 30, 1960)
- Tanker Lützkendorf (June 17, 1960)
photos
10,000 ton freighter Hobby Horse handed over to its destination. (far right in the picture the bow of the ship)
Hobby horse
literature
- German shipping companies Volume 23 VEB Deutsche Seereederei Rostock Author collective Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen ISBN 3-928473-81-6
- Gerd Peters: The purchase of old tonnage ships for the GDR merchant fleet. Poetry and truth about the hobby horse movement. In: Full ahead. For sailors and friends of seafaring. Issue No. 12, May 2007, pp. 4/5. Type IV driving people eV (publisher), Rostock 2007