Strelasund (ship, 1883)

Strelasund

Ship data flag  German Empire other ship names Peene Ship type Seebäderschiff home port Stralsund Owner August Prätz, Stralsund Shipyard Stettiner Maschinenbau-Anstalt and Schiffsbauwerft AG Launch 1883 Whereabouts Scrapped in 1923

Ship dimensions and crew length 27.08 m ( Lüa ) width 4.5 m measurement 58.61 GRT   crew 4th

Machine system machine 1 compound steam engine Machine performance 80 hp (59 kW) Top speed 6.5 kn (12 km / h) propeller 1

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 110

The Strelasund was a German seaside resort ship that was used in the liner service between Stralsund and Hiddensee .

history

The steamer ran in 1883 in Szczecin Maschinenbau-Anstalt and shipyard-Actien Society in Grabow as Peene launched . Until 1906 she was at the Szczecin shipping company Wilhelm Lüdke & Co. as a cargo steamer in use. Then the boatman Gustav Bentzien from Rügen bought them . He wanted to secure a larger share of the excursion traffic between Stralsund, Rügen and Hiddensee with the ship renamed Strelasund . As early as 1907 he sold the Strelasund to his Stralsund competitor August Prätz.

By 1923, the shipping company Praetz put the now remodeled and advertised as Salondampfer Strelasund together with the Hiddensee a scheduled and excursion service. It ran on weekdays from Stralsund via Neuendorf and Schaprode to Kloster . On Sundays she also drove directly from Stralsund to Kloster. On occasion, day trips were made to Wiek (Rügen) , Breege and Zingst , on the Baltic Sea and to the Danish island of Møn .

The Strelasund was occasionally used as a tug for salvaging ships. On February 4, 1923, the Strelasund suffered machine damage while towing an old minesweeper from Stralsund to Kiel during a storm. The mine sweeper sank and the Strelasund ran aground near Neuhaus near Dierhagen . After the ship was made afloat again by the salvage steamers Hans and Rügen , it was towed to Rostock and later scrapped.

technology

The steamship was 27.08 meters long and 4.50 meters wide. As Peene it was measured with 59  GRT , after the rebuilding in 1906 as Strelasund with 58.61 GRT. A compound steam engine with an output of 80 hp brought the ship to a speed of 6.5  knots with one screw . The crew consisted of four men. About 110 passengers could be carried.

literature

• Claus Rothe: German seaside ships. 1830 to 1939 (= library of ship types ). transpress Verlag für Verkehrwesen, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-344-00393-3 , pp. 42–43.