Alexander von Humboldt (ship)
- Keel
- Reserve Sonderburg
- Reserve Holtenau
- Reserve Fehmarn Belt
- Confidentia
Germanischer Lloyd
IMO no. 8626886 STA- nautical emblems TSG404 (until October 2011)
The sailing ship Alexander von Humboldt is a German steel barque that was built in 1906 as a fire ship under the name Reserve Sonderburg. Mid-1980s, it was placed as a fire ship decommissioned and converted into a sailing ship. Until decommissioning on October 9, 2011, she served as a youth and a training ship.
Description
The ship was designed in 1906 as a reserve lightship Reserve Sonderburg by the Prussian Maritime Ministry and commissioned. On September 10, 1906, ran at the Weser shipyard, later AG Weser, with the hull number 155 from the stack. It was the first of four sister ships; the other three were the Norderney ( I) (now a museum ship in Wilhelmshaven ), the Norderney ( II) and the Amrumbank (I ) (both destroyed in the Second World War).
Planning basis was, as with many other lightships also a seaworthy sailing ship hull ( often named after the leading designer at Tecklenborg, Georg Wilhelm Claussen, " Claussen- hull " ), to which, however, instead of three normal Segelmasten two masts ( fore and mizzen ) and a lamppost was placed on the main mast position. Lightships that time were virtually rigged as a schooner, ie they also had the corresponding sail on board for all masts. Like all lightships it was painted red and wore white characters.
In the course of the conversion to a training ship with Barkrigg it was a long poop deck to accommodate the teams, new rigging, a longer jib boom, a green coat and a green sails as well as additional iron ballast in the hull. The present name of Alexander von Humboldt, often referred to as " Alex ", carries the sailing ship since 1988.
History
Purpose of a reserve lightship was the representation of a " parent" lightship during the annual dockyard periods. In what name it was christened exactly is not entirely clear; both the name of reserve Fehmarn Belt (after the first location), as well as Reserve Sonderburg (also Reserve.Sonderburg with Name Reserve, home port of Sønderborg) appear. Based on the ship's bell, however, is the latter possibility, so just reserve with home port of Sønderborg, most likely to accept.
From 1920, after Sonderburg had become Danish (see Sønderborg ) was called, the ship reserve Holtenau.
After the decommissioning of the lightship was ( among other things worn by the automobile shipper EH Harms GmbH & Co. and of Beck & Co.) on 30 September by the " Deutsche Stiftung Sail Training ", a foundation to promote youth sailing purchased. The " German Sail Training Foundation " is organized in the Sail Training Association Germany ( STAG ), a national association of sail training ships. She left the ship with a lot of initiative and in cooperation with the MET engine works Bremerhaven to the plans of the Polish naval architect Zygmunt choirs for 2.2 million DM a tall ship ( barque ) rebuild. As a reference to the sailing ships of the Rickmers shipping company in the hull was painted green.
After the test drive on 3 March 1988, on 20 May 1988, the baptism of the finished ship after the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt on the name, and thus the official commissioning ceremony by the " German Sail Training Foundation ". The lantern of the lightship was placed in front of the Kiel Maritime Museum ( in the former fish market right on the harbor of Kiel ).
Since its renovation, the Alexander von Humboldt has traveled well over 300,000 miles, this corresponds to about fourteen times, equatorial circumference. Highlights include the Tall Ships 'Races (formerly Cutty Sark Tall Ships ' Races ), regattas, which meet in front of all tall ships, and especially its youth teams from around the world, as well as the winter cruises to the Canary Islands around every year. In the summer, the ship sails mainly in the North and Baltic Sea. The Alexander von Humboldt also serves as a " Windjammer for the youth " as a training ship for paying guests of all ages who want to learn to sail on tall ships.
One of the longest trips led by the Alexander von Humboldt on von Humboldt's tracks ( in memory of his Latin American expedition 200 years ago from 1799 to 1804 ) to South America and the Caribbean from October / November 2003 to May 2004. There ceremony of commissioning before 100 years launched the Alexander von Humboldt in autumn 2005 again on a trip to South America. The stations of the anniversary trip were Bremerhaven, St. Malo, Lisbon, Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Ushuaia ( Tierra del Fuego ), Valparaíso, Callao, Balboa ( Panama Canal ), Havana, Bermuda, Azores, St. Malo and again Bremerhaven. As part of this journey the ship on 13 January 2006 occurred at 7:03 local time clock under the leadership of Captain Klaus Ricke Cape Horn, the southern tip of South America. The Alexander von Humboldt was the first tall ships ( and until January 2011, when the Gorch Fock circumnavigated the Cape, the only one) under the German flag, which has orbited since 1949 Cape Horn. She passed under sail the Cape in the east-west direction, in spite of wind force 10 Beaufort, Beaufort gusts 11, from West. On 14 January 2006, the crew landed on the island of Hoorn, contributed themselves into the visitors' book of the weather station of the Chilean Navy and visited the Cape Horn Monument to the in this area sailors who lost their lives. One exchanged on 17 January 2006 crew succeeded two days later under Captain Ulrich Lamprecht once again landing on the famous rocks.
In July 2011, she won under Captain Mike Vosgerau in the subscriber class A ( tall ship ), the Tall Ships Race Lerwick to Stavanger.
Internationally known the ship was, inter alia, as a commercial ship for the brewery Beck & Co. ( " Beck's beer " ) and for its green sails, a promotion of Beck & Co. The sails of the ship remained green after the advertising contract had expired with the brewery.
On 9 October 2011, the ship was decommissioned and sold in late December to a Bremerhaven entrepreneur who stationed the ship in March 2012 in Freeport in the Bahamas. Successor in the operation of the Foundation is the Alexander von Humboldt II
The Alexander von Humboldt left Bremerhaven on 10 January 2013. From Freeport from it was used with a local crew to go sailing with tourists. After the concept to use the ship for sailing trips around the Bahamas, was not risen, it was until the beginning of April 2013 moved to the Mediterranean, to be overtaken in Seville in a shipyard by the middle of March. Since the technical conditions were not suitable at the shipyard for overhaul of a sailing ship, it finally in early May was transferred to Bremerhaven. Since September 2013 the ship is without its masts in Bremerhaven and is for sale.
Awards
- Trophy for the fastest ship on the Atlantic race from Portugal to Madeira (2008)
- Loyalty Trophy the International Sail Training & Tall Ships Conference 2008 in Halifax ( Canada )
- The Shipping Federation of Great Britain Perpetual Trophy, 2008
- Winner JadeWeserPort Cup 2009
Other ship data
Gallery
The Alexander von Humboldt in Bremerhaven; Adoption of Cape Horn circumnavigation in 2005/2006
The Alexander von Humboldt in the home port of Bremerhaven
Work on the main mast of the Alexander von Humboldt
Work on the foremast of the Alexander von Humboldt
Lamppost of the lightship before the Maritime Museum Kiel