Adolf Vinnen (barquentine)

The Adolf Vinnen, stranded on the Lizard Peninsula

The Adolf Vinnen was a five-masted topsail schooner, which already ran aground on its maiden voyage and was lost.

Rigging

The ship, named after the Bremer shipowner Adolf Vinnen, was one of the so-called Vinnen - saver, a class of five Auxiliarseglern, which was built by the Bremen-based shipping company F. A. Vinnen & Co. 1922. The ships were distinguished by their particular combination of Rah and Schratsegeln in the rigging of the so-called Vinnen - rigging. It was five-masted gaff schooner with Fock and Mittelrahtopp, each of which had four square sails like a topsail schooner on the Fock and the center pole instead of Gaffeltopsegels.

Construction and technical data

The Adolf Vinnen ran in December 1922 with the hull number 424 at the Friedrich Krupp Germania shipyard in Kiel on the stack. She was 97 m long and 13.5 m wide, had 5.8 m draft and was measured with 1827 GRT and 1524 NRT. With at least 20 sailing on her five masts could have 2320 m² sail area. It also was equipped with a 4 -cylinder diesel engine Germania of 350 hp, which allowed a speed of 7 knots with a fixed pitch propeller.

Maiden voyage and sinking

The ship was put into service in early February 1923. The maiden voyage went from Kiel to Barry (Wales ), where coal was to be loaded. After only one week voyage, on February 9, 1923 suffered in a storm at the western exit of the English Channel rudder damage and was the Hot Point, just a mile east of Lizard Point, at position 49 ° 57 ' 54 " N, 5 ° 11' 1 " W49.965 - 5.1836111111111 driven on the rocky coast of the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall. The 24 members of the crew were rescued by breeches buoy from the cliffs above the wreck. The ship had to be abandoned. The Adolf Vinnen was the last large sailing ship that went down at the Lizard.

The wreck, broken into two main parts and many smaller items, depth is still about 12 m from the coast on the partly rocky and partly sandy sea bottom.