The stump chamber in February 1959 when the cargo was unloaded in Rostock
The cargo ship Stubbenkammer was launched on September 22, 1947 as hull number 285 in the Kockums M / VA / B shipyard in the Swedish port city of Malmö . In January 1948 it was delivered under the name Tilia Gorthon to the shipping company "Rederi A / B Gylfe, Mgr. Stig Gorthon" based in Helsingborg . It was the fourth ship in a series of four ships with almost identical dimensions and technical data. The ship had its own cargo gear with six masts and booms.
In the course of the hobby horse movement in the GDR, the ship was bought in December 1958 with the foreign currency provided and on December 17 of the same year it was added to the fleet of the German shipping company Rostock under the name Stubbenkammer . It was named after the striking chalk cliff formation Stubbenkammer on the island of Rügen. It is worth mentioning the typical appearance of the ships built in Scandinavia at that time with the teak-clad bridge fronts . The ship was mainly used in the Levant traffic. On February 16, 1964, there was a cargo fire of around 1,500 tons of cotton on board the freighter in the port of Piraeus . In order to at least save the ship, it was flooded in the shallow edge area of the harbor water and put on the ground, thus extinguishing the fire. After the salvage, the ship was transferred to Palermo and repaired there. The cause of the fire remained unclear. Due to the severe damage caused by the fire in the bridge area, the formerly typical teak-clad bridge was replaced by a more modern design.
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
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