Wilhelm Krüger (ship)

Wilhelm Kruger

Wilhelm Krüger in Brunsbüttel (2013)

Ship data flag  Germany other ship names Port construction director Dr.hc Krüger Ship type Hopper excavator home port most recently Hamburg Shipyard Lübeck mechanical engineering company Build number 384 building-costs 4.8 million Reichsmarks Whereabouts Wrecked in 2016

Ship dimensions and crew length 102.50 m ( Lüa ) width 16.06 m Draft Max. 7.24 m measurement GT 2,645 NRZ   crew 7th

Machine system machine Diesel-electric drive Machine performance 3,784 kW (5,145 hp) Top speed 11.5 kn (21 km / h) propeller 2

Furnishing Hopper capacity 3,026 m³ Excavation depth 21 m

Others Registration numbers IMO 8650124

The Wilhelm Krüger was a hopper excavator that was last operated by STRABAG Wasserbau GmbH . The ship was named after the port construction director Wilhelm Krüger .

history

The ship was built from 1940 by the Lübecker Maschinenbau Gesellschaft (LMG) and put into service in February 1942 for the Wilhelmshaven naval shipyard . The construction costs amounted to 4.8 million Reichsmarks .

From 1949 the hopper dredger was as harbor construction director hc Kruger from the Water and Shipping Office Brunsbuettel in sluice ports of the North Sea-Baltic Canal used and in the 1970s in William Kruger renamed. After the decommissioning on March 31, 1982 and the sale to the then Josef Möbius Bau-GmbH , the Wilhelm Krüger continued to be used in the Brunsbüttel ports until the end of May 2014. In June 2014, the ship was first laid up in Reiherstieg and finally scrapped in 2016 .

technology

The Wilhelm Krüger had a diesel-electric drive and could with its rear suction pipe also vertical edge areas, e.g. B. in the locks, clear silt up to a water depth of 21 meters . Josef Möbius Bau-GmbH rebuilt Wilhelm Krüger and reduced the ship's crew from 20 to 7 men. After an extension at the Nobiskrug shipyard , the hopper space was enlarged in 1999 from 2,753 m³ to 3,026 m³.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Krüger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Suction excavator in Brunsbüttelkoog. Ditmarschen Wiki, accessed November 7, 2015 . 
2. ↑ TSHD WILHELM KRÜGER. STRABAG Wasserbau, accessed on November 7, 2015 .