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Example of a tug with a Voith-Schneider drive (here the Regina , museum ship in Bremen)

The Uhu was the first ship to be powered by Voith Schneider . The push ship was delivered from the Deggendorf shipyard in 1930 and converted into a tug in 1939 .

Construction of the push boat

The new drive was tested by Voith in 1929 in the 13-meter boat Torque together with the Lürssen shipyard . The torque had a 60 hp gasoline engine that worked on a Voith-Schneider drive with a diameter of 800 mm and four blades with a length of 350 mm. The positive results led to Bayerischer Lloyd receiving an order from Deggendorfer Werft und Eisenbau Gesellschaft in the same year for the construction of a push boat - officially known as the push truck - with a 700 hp MAN type W7V28 / 38 diesel engine and two Voith Schneider drives, each with issued six wings and 350 hp. The ship was delivered in 1930 and at that time was 26.2 m long, 9.00 m wide and had a draft of 1.90 m. As a result, many test drives were carried out with the new type of propulsion and the transition from towing to the new type of pushing of ships.

In 1934 the ship was rebuilt and was then 43.0 m long, 7.60 m wide and had a draft of 2.35 m. The original drive engines of the type MAN W 7V28 / 38 were replaced by engines of the same power of the type MAN G 8Vu33. Three tank barges with a length of 43.0 m, a width of 7.0 m and a load-bearing capacity of 285 tons were built for pushing operations. The association drove in a dovetail formation.

Conversion to a tractor

Due to frequent damage to the propulsion system, the push boat was converted into a two-screw tug in 1934 and renamed Danzig . In 1944 the Danzig sank by a mine hit; In 1945 it was lifted and repaired by a Yugoslav company. After that, the boat went under the name Zlatibor until 1970.

See also

literature

  • Friedberg Barg, Sandro Cambruzzi: Push units and coupling formations; 1991, Koehler-Verlag, Herford
  • Ingo Heidbrink: German inland tanker shipping. (Writings of the German Maritime Museum Volume 51) Convent Verlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-934613-09-8 .
  • Gerhard Hutschenreuther: Danube Shipping; 1990, publisher of the Mittelbayerische Zeitung, Regensburg. published as Volume 5 of the series of publications of the Schiffahrts-Museum Regensburg working group

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