The Rothensee type is a series of four motor freight ships that were built in 1953 and 1954 in the VVW Staatswerft Rothensee VEB in Magdeburg- Rothensee in the GDR. The Rothensee was the type ship and at the same time the first new building for the DSU and the later state- owned German inland shipping company after the Second World War . The type designation was given to the ships after the name of the first ship in the series. Rothensee is a district in the north of the state capital Magdeburg. The three ships remaining in the GDR came to VEB Deutsche Binnenreederei Berlin from 1957 and were given new registration numbers MS 5 - 358 to 360 B , where MS stands for motor ship, 5 - is the name for ships with a length of 67 meters and B stands for covered holds.
The motor freight ships were built on an order from four, other sources five ships in the state-owned Rothensee shipyard, which was renamed "Edgar André" shipyard after Etkar André at the end of the construction series . It was built in cooperation with the Heinrich Weise shipyard in Frohse (Elbe) . The fourth, previously known ship of the type was transferred after completion in 1954 via inland waterways to Stralsund and handed over to the Soviet owners and from there sailed across the Baltic Sea to the USSR under its own power.
technology
The dimensions of the ships are based on the Gross-Plauer measure - they are 67.00 meters long and 8.16 meters wide. The empty draft is 0.62 meters and the maximum permitted draft is 2.00 meters. When they were put into service, they were driven by engines from SKL Magdeburg. The engine system is located in the aft engine room. The auxiliary diesel for power supply, the main switchboard, the bilge and fire-fighting pumps as well as other auxiliary units and a small workbench are also housed there. The hold is divided by a transverse bulkhead. The luggage compartment cover consisted of corrugated iron hatch covers made of aluminum. They were carried lengthways in the middle of the ship by the shear boom and lay on the outside of the hatch coaming. The individual hatch covers were removed and placed by hand. After renovations, hatch covers were introduced that extend from hatch to hatch and are removed and placed using a lifting device. The apartment for the sailor is in the foredeck and consists of a bedroom with two bunks, a small living room, a kitchenette and a toilet with washing facilities. The skipper's apartment is in the rear area between the hold and the engine room. It consists of a bedroom with a double bed, a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom. Until a few years ago, coal-fired stoves were used for heating and cooking. The wheelhouse is also placed far aft. Originally, the five parts of the wheelhouse had to be dismantled or folded down when the bridge crossings were expected to be low. During a later renovation, the wheelhouse was designed to be lowerable. Due to the scarcity of towing power, the motor ships were equipped with towing gear and could thus be used on the approved waterways such as the newly opened Havel Canal with up to four attachments.
Ships
Surname
Identification at the DSU / DBR
ENI
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Rothensee
2-345 B / MS 5 - 358 B
04030590
Carrying capacity 800 tons, home port Magdeburg, later Berlin / Malz, in service for Navitrans sro Praha (CZ). On 28 October 2014, came in the area of mooring site Bergfriede Mittellandkanal Km 269 (near the village Oebisfelde / Saxony-Anhalt) to a ship accident. The wrecked ship, loaded with 817 tons of iron ingot, sank and lay across the fairway.
Usedom
2-347 B / MS 5 - 359 B
04030680
Carrying capacity 824 tons, Stralsund home port, later Berlin, demolished in 1996
Berlin
2-349 B / MS 5 - 360 B
04030600
Carrying capacity 850 tons, home port Berlin, demolished in 1997
Wollin
GT (unknown sequence of digits)
Created under the construction name Wollin , delivered to the USSR, still in use in 2003
literature
Dünner, Hans-Wilhelm; Knoll, Horst-Christin: 50 years of the German inland shipping company . - from an East German inland shipping company to a European logistics service provider. 1st edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-7822-0757-2 .
Schönknecht, Rolf; Gewiese, Armin: Inland shipping between Elbe and Oder . The other German shipping area 1945-1995. Busse Seewald / DSV-Verlag, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 978-3-88412-218-1 .
↑ Dünner, Hans-Wilhelm; Knoll, Horst-Christin: 50 years of the German inland shipping company; Page 176
^ A b Dietrich Strobel, Günter Dame: Shipbuilding between Elbe and Oder: 1945 - 1992 . 1st edition. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1993, ISBN 3-7822-0565-0 .
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