Vinnen schooner
 The Carl Vinnen on a postcard from 1922, the foremast with the curtain sails in place
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As Vinnen-saver a series of five is Auxiliarseglern type a topsail schooner called. For this type of ship, a special form of combination of square and sling sails was chosen in the rigging . In 1922, the shipping company F. A. Vinnen & Co. , based in Bremen, had five five-masted gaff schooners built with jib and middle wire mop. These ships also drove four square sails each like the topsail schooner on the jib and on the central mast instead of the gaff top sail. This type of rigging is also called vinnen rigging .
The ships of the series
| Object / building number |
Surname | blown sound character |
Launching / commissioning |
later names | Whereabouts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 422 | Carl Vinnen | QLNT / DONZ | 1922 | During the Second World War the ship was in Spain and was handed over to the Allies in 1945. The German shipowner Schliewen bought the Carl Vinnen from the British. In 1952 the ship came to Hamburg in tow. Resale to Swedish shipowner Glücksmann (Gothenburg). Further whereabouts unknown | |
| 423 | Werner Vinnen | QLWN / DOHL | 1922 | Was converted to a motor ship and was lost on May 24, 1944 by a mine hit on the Elbe | |
| 420 | Christel Vinnen | QLPK / DOMP | 1922 | The ship was dismantled and converted into a motor ship in the 1930s. It was bombed in an air raid in Bremen on March 29, 1944 and sank as a total loss | |
| 421 | Susanne Vinnen | QLPT | 1922 | Patria , Imperatore | Sold to Italy before World War II |
| 424 | Adolf Vinnen | QLRG | 1922 | Lost in 1923 on her maiden voyage due to stranding in the English Channel |
The Vinnen rigging
The rigging of the Vinnen schooner can be described as a mixed form of the rigging of a yard schooner and a staysail schooner, based on the rigging of the Jackassbark . In front of the foremast of the Vinnen schooner, the outer jib, the jib, the inner jib and the forward stem sail were usually driven. The masts of the ships are named in the order from bow to stern as follows:
- Foremast with jib staysail, Fockrah with jib , the curtains sailing , on-Marsrah with on-topsail, on-Bramrah with pre- topgallants , on-royal yard with on-Royal sails;
- Main mast with main staysail and main gaff topsail;
- Middle mast with middle staysail, middle yard with middle sail, the curtain sail, middle marsrah with middle topsail, middle Bramrah with middle bramble sail, middle royalrah with middle royal sail;
- Cross mast with cross staysail and cross gaff top sail;
- Mizzen mast with mizzen staysail and mizzen gaff top sail;
The main mast, the mizzen mast and the mizzen mast are driven as pure schooner masts . They only sell protective products, which are a gaff sail and a gaff top sail. The foremast and the middle mast, as a protective mast with a small rigging, drive four yards on the stern with corresponding top sails of different sizes. The sail guided by the lower yard is also known as a curtain sail or a lined brig sail .
photos
Five-masted schooner Carl Vinnen at anchor on the Río de la Plata (approx. 1930–31)
Flag of the German shipping company FA Vinnen & Co. (founded in Bremen in 1819)
The Adolf Vinnen shortly after being stranded
Example of jackass rigging
literature
- Alfred Dudszus, Ernest Henriot, Friedrich Krumrey: The great book of ship types. Ships, boats, rafts under oars and sails. Historical ship and boat finds. Famous sailing ships. 3. unchang. Ed., Transpress VEB Verlag für Verkehrwesen, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-344-00312-7 .
Web links
- Portrait of the five-masted topsail schooner accessed on May 22, 2011