Weser (ship, 1938)
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The Weser was a Wesermünde fish steamer . In 1940/41 it was converted into the first modern German fishing and factory ship.
history
In 1938, the Hanseatic Deep Sea Fishery in Wesermünde put the fish steamer Weser , which was unusually large for the time, with the fishing license number BX267 into service. On November 25, 1939, the vehicle was badly damaged by a mine explosion.
The necessary repairs were taken as an opportunity to convert the trawler into a test ship for the deep-freeze preservation of fish fillets produced on board. For this purpose, the Freezing Technology Society of German Deep Sea Fisheries was founded in Wesermünde, in which all well-known fishing steamer shipping companies participated. During the renovation, the ship was equipped with a Baader filleting machine for a processing capacity of 1.6 tons per hour, an extensive refrigeration system for frozen food temperatures of −20 ° C and corresponding deep-freeze holds as well as a fish meal system. With the exception of the stern catcher design , the ship essentially had all the facilities that were only to become established on comparable fishing vessels 25 years later.
Since the ship was unable to work on the intended fishing grounds due to the war and no sales market with the necessary cold chain had been established in the post-war period, the special equipment was removed in 1945 and the ship was used as a conventional fish steamer until it was demolished in 1962.
See also
literature
- Yearbook of the Shipbuilding Society . Vol. 98, 2004, ISSN 0374-1222 , pp. 238-239.
- Wolfgang Walter: German fish steamer. Technology, development, use, ship register (= publications of the German Maritime Museum. Vol. 50). Carlsen / Die Hanse, Hamburg 1999, ISBN 3-551-88517-6 .