Chilean ship Micalvi

The former freighter Micalvi in Puerto Williams

• Boston Lines (1926-1928)
• Bragi (1925-1926)

The Micalvi is a Chilean museum ship lying in the harbor of Puerto Williams.

History

The freighter was founded in 1925, built as Bragi under the hull number 8 for the shipping company Szczecin Emil R. Retzlaff of the company's Baltic Shipyard in women's village near Stettin, today Golęcino. Drives was the 621 -ton ship of a triple expansion engine of 450 hp, which was manufactured by the foundry & Maschinenfabrik Paul Heinrich Podeus in Wismar. With it, it reached a speed of 9.5 knots. Like many other ships of the company received the steamer a name from Norse mythology. He was named after the Germanic god of poetry.

A year after the commissioning changed ships for Reederei Otto A. Müller in Hamburg, operated them under the name Boston Lines. 1928, the freighter was sold to the Chilean Navy and renamed Micalvi. The Chilean Navy use the freighter as an auxiliary ship. Over the next three decades, he has been used in the Magallanes region, in Tierra del Fuego, as a supply ship. After the decommissioning of the ship in 1961 for many years in Puerto Williams served as a pier, for which the freighter was apparently set to basic. After an overhaul in 2007, the Micalvi is now used by the local yacht club as a club house.