Schulschiff Deutschland
Career (Germany)
Builder - Tecklenborg Shipyard, Geestemünde
Launched - June 14, 1927
Commissioned - Delivered: late 1927
Fate - Moored in Vegesack, as a museum ship
Status - Museum Ship in Vegesack, Bremen, Germany
General chacteristics
Class and type - Sail training ship
Displacement -
Length - 86m/282 ft.
Beam - 12m/39 ft.
Propulsion - Steam, propeller, ship’s sail rig
Complement - 158 - 8 officers, 110 petty officers, 140 enlisted and merchant marine cadets.
The Schulschiff Deutschland ("School Ship Germany) was employed as a school ship for the merchant marine beginning in 1927. This last German full rigged-ship is maintained as a memorial and museum ship located at Vegesack, in the Federal State of Bremen, Germany. Since the name Deutschland was at the time of its building assigned to an unbuilt naval war ship (a pocket battleship, later renamed Lützow), its official name is Schulschiff Deutschland.
The ship carries 25 sails with an area of 1950 square meters.
The top speed on engines is 12 knots, and on sails 18.2 knots.
History
The Schulschiff Deutschland was given in 1927 by the German Training Ship Club as the fourth merchant marine training ship in series.
From 1927 to 1939 she undertook training trips overseas in the North and Baltic Seas.
During WWII cruises were limited and these trips were only held in the Baltic Sea. After the war the ship was delivered up as war reparations and was returned in 1952.
Between 1949 and 1952 she served as a hostel before it was subsequently used in Bremen as a stationary training ship for seaman students. In 1952 she was recognized as a floating monument and renovated in 1995/1996 in Bremen-Vegesack. Until July of 2001 ships mechanics students lived on board, taking their classroom training in a school centre in Bremen. With the cessation of such training in Bremen, this aspect of the ship’s Nautical School was closed. Today, Schulschiff Deutschland in Bremen-Vegesack is located where it can be viewed as a maritime memorial or used as overnight accommodations. It can be booked for celebrations, seminars and exhibitions for events. Once a month (all year), civil weddings are performed and participants can stay overnight in 30 double cabins and in the master’s suite.
Travel
For training in maritime practice up until the Second World War the ship made regular ocean voyages. In winter the destinations would have been overseas (mostly in German colonial Africa and in South America), while in the summer tours were made in the North and Baltic sea ports. Between trips, Elsfleth was the ship’s base as owing to the draft of the ship its registered home port of Oldenburg could not be used. For "Sail Bremerhaven", the Schulschiff Deutschland was re-entered on the ships list.
Captains
Reinhold Walker (1927-1933)
Walter von Zatorisk (1933-1936)
Ernst Sieck (1936-1938)
Otto Bauer (1938-1945)
O. Hattendorf (1945-1953)
K. Köppl (1953-1961)
O. Hattendorh (1961)
The shirt pictured here appears to be for a child. Possible used on board the ship for programs. It has a dry cleaners tag inside so it was probably used o board on more than one occassion.
Regards,
Gordon
Career (Germany)
Builder - Tecklenborg Shipyard, Geestemünde
Launched - June 14, 1927
Commissioned - Delivered: late 1927
Fate - Moored in Vegesack, as a museum ship
Status - Museum Ship in Vegesack, Bremen, Germany
General chacteristics
Class and type - Sail training ship
Displacement -
Length - 86m/282 ft.
Beam - 12m/39 ft.
Propulsion - Steam, propeller, ship’s sail rig
Complement - 158 - 8 officers, 110 petty officers, 140 enlisted and merchant marine cadets.
The Schulschiff Deutschland ("School Ship Germany) was employed as a school ship for the merchant marine beginning in 1927. This last German full rigged-ship is maintained as a memorial and museum ship located at Vegesack, in the Federal State of Bremen, Germany. Since the name Deutschland was at the time of its building assigned to an unbuilt naval war ship (a pocket battleship, later renamed Lützow), its official name is Schulschiff Deutschland.
The ship carries 25 sails with an area of 1950 square meters.
The top speed on engines is 12 knots, and on sails 18.2 knots.
History
The Schulschiff Deutschland was given in 1927 by the German Training Ship Club as the fourth merchant marine training ship in series.
From 1927 to 1939 she undertook training trips overseas in the North and Baltic Seas.
During WWII cruises were limited and these trips were only held in the Baltic Sea. After the war the ship was delivered up as war reparations and was returned in 1952.
Between 1949 and 1952 she served as a hostel before it was subsequently used in Bremen as a stationary training ship for seaman students. In 1952 she was recognized as a floating monument and renovated in 1995/1996 in Bremen-Vegesack. Until July of 2001 ships mechanics students lived on board, taking their classroom training in a school centre in Bremen. With the cessation of such training in Bremen, this aspect of the ship’s Nautical School was closed. Today, Schulschiff Deutschland in Bremen-Vegesack is located where it can be viewed as a maritime memorial or used as overnight accommodations. It can be booked for celebrations, seminars and exhibitions for events. Once a month (all year), civil weddings are performed and participants can stay overnight in 30 double cabins and in the master’s suite.
Travel
For training in maritime practice up until the Second World War the ship made regular ocean voyages. In winter the destinations would have been overseas (mostly in German colonial Africa and in South America), while in the summer tours were made in the North and Baltic sea ports. Between trips, Elsfleth was the ship’s base as owing to the draft of the ship its registered home port of Oldenburg could not be used. For "Sail Bremerhaven", the Schulschiff Deutschland was re-entered on the ships list.
Captains
Reinhold Walker (1927-1933)
Walter von Zatorisk (1933-1936)
Ernst Sieck (1936-1938)
Otto Bauer (1938-1945)
O. Hattendorf (1945-1953)
K. Köppl (1953-1961)
O. Hattendorh (1961)
The shirt pictured here appears to be for a child. Possible used on board the ship for programs. It has a dry cleaners tag inside so it was probably used o board on more than one occassion.
Regards,
Gordon
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