Xarifa (ship)
 The Xarifa in the port of Monaco, 2007
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Xarifa (Arabic for "The Beautiful") was the name of a former research ship owned by Hans Hass . With the three-masted topsail schooner , he undertook two oceanographic expeditions in the 1950s.
history
In September 1951 Hans Hass bought the steel hull of a sailing ship in Copenhagen for 150,000 Danish kroner , which he wanted to have built as a research ship . It came from one of the largest sailing yachts: The American sewing machine manufacturer Singer had it built as a racing yacht by J. Samuel White in 1927 at the English shipyard . After Singer's death, the yacht was purchased by the English Lord Edward Mauger Iliffe, who called her Radiant . It then went through different hands and went under the names L'Oiseau Blanc , Georgette and Capitana . Once in Canada it burned out and sank; During the war, their masts and the valuable 70-ton lead keel were dismantled. After all, the ship drove for Tuxen & Hagemann in Copenhagen as a coal transporter.
Hass had the hull rebuilt in the Norderwerft according to old plans. Initially, the ship was to be named Manta , because Hass owed the ship to the main characters in his last film, Adventure in the Red Sea . But then he gave the ship its original name Xarifa back.
After its completion in the Norderwerft, the three-masted schooner weighed 350 tons. The tallest mast was 33 meters high and the sail area was 550 square meters. With the 170 kW auxiliary engine, the ship could run up to nine knots , and under sail up to twelve. Overall, the Xarifa was more than 43 meters long, had a maximum draft of four meters and was the largest European sailing yacht - slightly larger in tonnage than the Creole of Stavros Niarchos .
During the renovation of the Xarifa in Hamburg, Hass stood by Bernhard Rogge as a consultant. As captain of the Xarifa , Hass was able to win Johannes Diebitsch , who was first officer under Rogge on a training ship and served on the auxiliary cruiser Kormoran during World War II . Diebitsch also took over the selection of the other crew and hired the two officers Marsil Graf von Geldern-Egmond and Heinrich Becker as well as engineer Gerhard Biastoch. Diebitsch died in 1957 when the Pamir sank .
Research trips
On August 23, 1953, the Xarifa set out on her first research voyage from Hamburg. The route first led to the Azores , on October 10th we arrived in Tenerife and then it went through the Caribbean and the Panama Canal to the Galapagos Islands and back to Europe to Genoa. The voyage lasted until June 1, 1954 and during this time she carried the flag of Germany with her home port of Hamburg.
The second Xarifa expedition lasted from October 15, 1957 to October 14, 1958 and went from Cannes through the Red Sea and the Maldives to Singapore . The shortlist to act as captain on this voyage was initially Hans Freiherr von Stackelberg, who later became the commandant of the Gorch Fock . Heinrich Becker then became the captain. He had sailed as an officer on the first voyage and had in the meantime received his captain's license. During this voyage, the Xarifa carried the flag of Austria with the home port Vienna.
Whereabouts
Since such a large project could not be financed by a private individual in the long term, and Hass wanted to turn to new research, he sold the ship in 1960 to the Italian real estate agent and Coca-Cola licensee Carlo Traglio. Traglio had the ship restored to its original form as a historic racing yacht.
The Xarifa lay in the Monaco marina between 1960 and 2013 with only a few interruptions. It was rarely used for trips. After Traglio's death, the heirs sold the ship to a major Spanish industrialist in 2013. The ship is now in the port of Valencia , is not in charter operations and is sailing under the flag of Panama .
Models
An approximately two-meter-long, true-to-scale model of the Xarifa has been in the Minimundus miniature park since 1993 . In the Natural History Museum in Vienna a duplicate was erected this model. A smaller model on a scale of 1:75, worked out by Hans Unger (Bonn), is in the permanent exhibition of the Hessian State Museum in Darmstadt .
In the model technology issue No. 11/1959 there was a large construction plan for the Xarifa to be rebuilt.
Name and owner
- 1927–1930: Xarifa , FM Singer (New York)
- 1930–1933: Radiant , Sir Edward Iliffe (Southampton)
- 1934: Radiant , Lord Iliffe (Southampton)
- 1935: Radiant , Camper & Nicholson (Southampton)
- 1936–1938: L'Oisseau Blanc , Baron Louis Empain (Brussels)
- 1939–1940: Georgette , Mrs. Georgette Malou (New York)
- 1941–1942: Capitana , Antonio Miguel de Carvalho et Cie. (St. Vincent, Cape Verde Island)
- 1943–1947: Capitana , Magnus Andersson (Reykjavík)
- 1948–1951: Capitana , Tuxen & Hagemann (Copenhagen)
- 1951–1960: Xarifa , Hans Hass (Hamburg and Vienna)
- 1960–2013: Xarifa , Carlo Traglio (Monaco)
- since 2013: Xarifa , NN (Valencia)
literature
- Hans Hass: Expedition into the Unknown . Berlin, 1961
- Michael Jung: Hans Hass. A lifetime on an expedition, a portrait . Naglschmid, Stuttgart, 1994, ISBN 3-927913-63-4 .
- Michael Jung: Fifty years of the Xarifa research vessel . In: Divemaster , Stuttgart, issue 3/2001. Pp. 59-60.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Silent World, The Mother of All Safari Ships , undated
- ↑ Xarifa, Hass and Diebitsch. Retrieved January 25, 2018 (Spanish, 10/13/1953 in "Falange: diario de la tarde" - page 4).
- ↑ luxury charter: Xarifa. Retrieved January 25, 2018 .