Theodor Beyer ship

The Theodor Beyer ship is one of five after the Second World War as a self-drive developed types of ships of the German inland navigation.

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In the period after the Second World War, a large part of the units destroyed or damaged in the war had to be replaced in German inland navigation . To this end the Technical Committee took Central Association of German inland waterways his interrupted during the war back to work and developed in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Transport different to certain channel dimensions adapted standard ship types . The self-propelled committee (a sub-committee of the technical committee), under the leadership of chairman Ernst Weber, continued the interrupted pre-war work. With the cooperation of the shipyard owner Theodor Hitzler, whose concern was the typification of the inland vessels, the engineer Friedrich Kölln, who took over the construction, and the engineer Helm of the Hamburgische Schiffbau-Versuchsanstalt , who led the towing tests, the self-propelled committee developed the type Theodor Beyer ship . The dimensions of the ships, 38.50 meters in length, 5.05 meters in width and 2.30 meters in draft, were based on the dimensions of the peniche . They have a load capacity of around 274 tons. The drive power was around 200 hp. After completion of the development, the members were provided with building descriptions and line plans in order to be able to implement the construction of the ship type as uniformly as possible.

literature

H. Burmester: The German inland navigation in the course of modern technical development . In: Journal for Inland Shipping . Vol. 84, No. October 10 , 1958, p. 393-401 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Haas: Types of ships in inland shipping (PDF; 4.9 MB)