Roald Amundsen (ship)

Traditional Ship

StA -No. G 508

The Roald Amundsen is a 1952 in Roßlau built on the Elbe, German steel ship. After several missions, it was first time in 1992 and masts and sails (two master) thus became the brig with a black hull and white remodeled building at the rear. Goal of his trips since then, virtually bring people the classic seamanship on traditional ships and sailors, and to foster international understanding and the meeting of generations on board.

History

The hull was built in 1952 on the Roßlauer Shipyard on the Elbe (DDR ) as a logger for fishing. Even during the construction phase, the ship was converted to a so-called tank logger, ie equipped with a large tank capacity ship. This ship was then with side-mounted additional floats, which reduced the draft, put the same down and some detours into the Baltic Sea, to be finally completed on the Peene Shipyard in Wolgast to the tank logger, Project 235, named Vilm. The Vilm then served for many years the National People's Army (NVA ) of the GDR as a tank and supply vessel and naval units supplied with fuel, water and equipment. Permanent berth was Peenemünde. The crew sat down together mainly of civilian employees who were commanded by an officer of the National People's Army.

In the 1970s, the ship was converted into a Bilgenentöler, this in turn on the Peene-Werft. The tasks were transformed then, so that the ship is in regular 'regular service' visited the various sites of the NVA and bilge water abpumpte from the ships and brought to recycling to a central collection point.

At the turn of 1989, this service was discontinued. The ship was towed after a year of resting to Neustadt in Holstein, and served in the Navy Neustadt site as an accommodation ship for guards.

At the turn of 1991, the Vilm by the collecting society for federal property in Frankfurt ( VEBEG ) was put up for sale and bought by Detlev Löll and Hanns Temme.

It was taken by the two owners on 2 December 1991 and brought with the help of some of the old crew with its own power from Neustadt to Wolgast. There then began the work on the ship in the spring of 1992. First, there was a massive disassembly through to complete disassembly of the main deck and between decks and expand the complete engine room. Then the hull was sandblasted provided with new exterior keel and gradually converted into a brig.

The ship was put into service under the name of Roald Amundsen in July 1993.

At the conversions about 200 ABM forces were involved. The work was funded by the State of Mecklenburg- Vorpommern and the Federal Labour Office and carried out in the context of the ABM project " Fridtjof Nansen " under the direction of the owner. (Draft: Detlev Löll, Construction: Peter Brüning, construction management: Lutz Reinke ). As part of the ABM project the ships Fridtjof Nansen and Nobile were created.

In mid-1993 the ship was brought to ride and chartered by the owners to the association " Learning to live on sailing ships eV ". This gave the ship limited to the association " Sailboat Fritjof Nansen eV " on. On 15 November 1993, the first season concluded. Since the beginning of 1994, the Roald Amundsen is bereedert itself by the association LLAS and used in the event-oriented club work.

Home port of Roald Amundsen 's Eckernförde today. From here it is taking in the summer months usually rides through the entire Baltic Sea by the Danish South Sea to the Baltic and the North Sea. In autumn, the Roald Amundsen is heading for warmer climes, where it spends the winter until it resumes its home course in the spring.

The year program of the Roald Amundsen includes permanently on distant targets:

• 2007: Lithuania ( Klaipėda)
• ( November 2009-February 2010: longer shipyard time)
• 2010 from March from the Canary Islands to the West Indies and Bermuda to Canada; on the St. Lawrence River to the Great Lakes, on which was then taken from mid-July to early September at the Tall Ships Challenge; in October / November 2010 return via the Azores to the Canary Islands and after a stop in Helgoland to the home port Eckernförde
• 2011/2012 Winter: Caribbean
• 2012/2013 Winter: Caribbean

Below deck, equipment

In the lower part there are tanks and the concrete ballast. The fixed ballast ratio is 180 tons, 108 tons of liquid. Of these, about 30 tons of fuel tank, approx 25 tons of fresh water tank, about 20 tons of ballast water tank and about 25 tons of gray water tank. In addition, also the dry loads for food and the like are housed. In the cabins and the Mass as well as other areas such as the engine room, bosun store and housed on. In the deckhouse are the card room, the hospital, and the galley. The vessel is fully expanded below deck in wood, has central heating and several showers and washrooms with running hot and cold water. As a traditional sailing the Roald Amundsen largely dispensed with luxury and unnecessary modern equipment. Instead, where possible and appropriate, to traditional methods resorted (eg splice and whipping ). However, the safety equipment is up to date and complies with the conditions laid down by the Joint Commission for Historical Watercraft GSHW requirements.

Technology and equipment

• Main engine:

• Generators and power supply:

• Other:

• Radio and navigation equipment:

Rigging

The rigging of the brig is - in contrast to the other Sicherheitsriggs currently perfoming Windjammer - modeled on the labor-intensive Riggs traditional trade ships of the late 18th century. Thus, for example, the upper three yards of the two poles attached fierbar, ie to set the sails of these yards, not the sails down, but the yards are pulled up. The purpose of this design was to shift the focus of the ship with no sails set and empty cargo hold down, to reduce the risk of capsizing (about crosswind ). Here you set Royal and Bramrah back a relatively small way. However, the lowest fierbare Rah, the Obermarsrah lays back almost all the way to the height of the upper topsail.

The ship has moving masthead antenna. Through the heel when driving through the water the yards are not parallel to the water surface. This is by a close-hauled, wherein the sail are flowed longitudinally, disturbing. Inclined yards swirl the wind and it flows through the rectangular sail to no longer optimal. In order to provide the yards again parallel to the water (so-called Dumping ) are used the masthead antenna. These are each a piece of rope to larboard and starboard, which, brought on by the leeward side, initially moving only the lower frame. The overlying yards follow at set sail to necessarily because they are interconnected.

• Standing rigging:

• Running rigging:

• Sail:

Crew

The Roald Amundsen normally runs in the so-called three- watch system. A guard is in this case usually from a tax man ( navigator ), a topmen ( awake leading seaman ), one or two deckhands (experienced sailor ), possibly a Deckhand contender and of course the trainees together. The trainees are in the tradition of the trainees of a sail training ship. As paying guests they are on the Roald Amundsen full-fledged part of the crew and sail along with the permanent crew the ship. Furthermore, there are wax-free people on board, this includes the captain, the engineer, the Smut and the boatman.