Wilhelm Pieck (S61)
Typ ship Wodnik of the Polish Navy
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The Wilhelm Pieck (S61) was the first newly built engine training ship of the People's Navy , the 1976-1990 military for practical training of students schools, primarily for the training of cadets was used. It was named after the former SED chairman and only president of the GDR, Wilhelm Pieck .
draft
The Wilhelm Pieck was the hull number 3 on the Northern Shipyard in Gdansk built Wodnik class (Project 888), a training ship based on the also in Poland for the Soviet Navy built survey vessels of the Moma class (Project 861).
The hull was designed as a fore decker and divided into eleven watertight compartments by ten bulkheads . The superstructures contained the main command post , technical rooms, the so-called teaching cabinets, a library and other training rooms. The officer students were each accommodated in a 26-, 21- and 16-man deck. The other facilities of the ship allowed the "unlimited voyage".
Of the Polish sister ships Wodnik and Gryf the difference Wilhelm Pieck by an additional pole on the back , the absence of the bulwarks on the bow and the other bridge structures. Two other ships of this class, Luga and Oka , were built for the Soviet Navy.
Training trips
The commissioning of the new motor training ship made it possible for the Volksmarine to take training trips to distant waters. The first trip was to Leningrad on July 25, 1976, and the first “Great Trip” (always the highlight of the third year of study) took place in 1978. The following table lists the known training trips.
Period | Ports |
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4th - 24th April 1977 | Gdynia - Tallinn - Riga |
10-23 June 1977 | Leningrad - Gdynia |
June 29 - August 7, 1978 | Murmansk |
May 17 - July 3, 1979 | Sevastopol - Constanța - Varna |
May 10 - June 4, 1980 | Murmansk |
June 16 - August 5, 1981 | Sevastopol - Split |
June 13 - July 18, 1983 | Leningrad - Riga - Turku |
August 16 - September 8, 1983 | Gdynia - Tallinn |
May 3 - June 30, 1984 | Tripoli - Sevastopol - Piraeus |
June 4 - July 25, 1987 | Latakia - Sevastopol - Varna - Constanța |
1988 | Gdynia - Tallinn |
June 3 - July 15, 1988 | Murmansk - Tallinn - Gdynia |
1988 | Gdynia - Leningrad |
May 23 - July 14, 1989 | Algiers - Sevastopol - Piraeus - Split |
1989 | Leningrad - Gdynia - Riga |
11-26 June 1990 | Plymouth - Gdynia - Riga |
On the Mediterranean voyages in 1979 and 1981 , the Wilhelm Pieck was accompanied by the rescue ship Otto von Guericke , in 1984 by the workshop ship cooling and in 1989 by the high-seas supplier Darss . During the last voyage, the ship moored in Warnemünde to change money on the way to Riga ( D-Mark introduction).
Whereabouts
The Wilhelm Pieck was not from the German Navy adopted and in Kröslin launched . On May 8, 1991 she was towed to the Olpenitz naval base and in 1993 to Flensburg . The ship was most recently in the Tirpitzhafen in Kiel . In the Naval School Mürwik there is still an anchor with a Polish signature.
The plans of a Danish businessman to use the former training ship as a hostel for Vietnamese street children have failed because of the considerable exposure to asbestos . So the ship was ultimately sold through VEBEG and towed to Santander to be scrapped .
Others
With reference to the hull number S61, the Wilhelm Pieck was also called Sidol 61 in naval jargon . Sidol was a "popular" cleaning agent in the GDR and was sufficiently available on board to keep the officer students busy.
literature
- Hans Mehl, Knut Schäfer, Ulrich Israel: From the coastal defense boat to the rocket ship . Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-327-00075-1 .
- Siegfried Breyer, Peter Joachim Lapp: The People's Navy of the GDR . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1985, ISBN 3-7637-5423-7 .
Web links
- Wilhelm Pieck. Retrieved October 14, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Gerhard Koop, Siegfried Breyer: The ships, vehicles and aircraft of the German Navy from 1956 to today. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-7637-5950-6 .
- ↑ Marineforum 5/1997 p. 36