STS Sedov

• Commodore Johnsen
• Magdalene Vinnen II

Russian Maritime Register of Shipping

IMO no. 7946356

The Sedov (Russian Седов, in German also under the transcriptional Sedov known), ex Commodore Johnsen (1936 ) ex Magdalene Vinnen II ( 1921), is a built of steel four-masted barque ( sailing vessel ) with auxiliary machine (so-called Auxiliarsegler ) that of the Soviet Union and is now used by Russia as a sail training ship. It was named after the Russian naval officer and Arctic explorer Georgy Yakovlevich Sedov. The Sedov is the largest traditional sailing vessel still sailing the world and the second largest ever, surpassed only by the new Royal Clipper.

Ship history

The ship was launched on 23 March 1921 as Magdalene Vinnen II on the Kiel Germania shipyard from the stack. It was the second named after the wife of Bremen shipowner Adolf Vinnen ship that sailed for the shipping company FA Vinnen (Bremen). The first, built in 1892, Magdalene Vinnen I ( ex Dunstaffnage ), also a four-masted barque, which was measured with 3,317 GRT and 3,129 NRT, 1911 came to FA Vinnen and arrived after World War II in 1921 as reparations to Italy to abort. The Magdalene Vinnen II sailed among others, after 1931 in the Australian wheat journey and until 1931 in the Chilean nitrate trade, where they rounded Cape Horn several times, so it counts as a ship also to the Cape Hoorniers.

In 1936 she was purchased by the North German Lloyd, who was in search of a big sailing ship, to operate it as a cargo -carrying sail training ship. It was renamed after Lloyd Captain and Commodore Nicholas Johnsen (1869-1930) was called the Commodore Johnsen. In early March 1937, she escaped on a return trip from Buenos Aires to Hamburg just under the fall, as near the Azores in a storm, which developed into a hurricane, the grain bulkhead below Luke III gave in and their charged as bulk cargo ( 4,963 tons wheat) postponed. Despite the attempts of the crew to re-trim the cargo at sea, the ship heeled on the morning of March 3, 1937 up to 56 °. The Captain Otto Lehmberg finally radioed SOS and the Dutch freighter Sliedrecht and the German tanker Winkler rushed to help. Finally, the oil tanker ran to the lake to reduce the power of the waves. The storm subsided in the evening of the day from something, whereupon the Umtrimmen the charge was successful enough to save Commodore Johnsen and let go on their own. The incident to have occurred almost exactly 20 years before the sinking of the Pamir, which was mainly caused by a shift of the grain charge after fracture of the longitudinal bulkhead, and the Beinahunglück the Passat because of such postponement, both also on the route Buenos - Aires -Hamburg fell into severe storms.

After the Second World War, the ship arrived in May 1945 in British possession, and on 20 December 1945 as reparations to the Soviet Union, which moved it to Odessa. In January 1946, the ship received its present name, which is engraved with the previous two names together with year in a brass ribbon of the rudder wheel. As a sail training vessel owned by the Soviet Ministry of Fisheries in 1951 entered the Sedov on their first trip. From 1952 to 1957 she served as a training ship of the Soviet Navy. Several friendly visits under various Marine captains have taken her to South America and Africa. From 1957 to 1966 she was with cadets on board as an oceanographic research vessel in the Atlantic Ocean on the go. During this time, the entire running rigging was renewed after the original Takelplänen. In 1966, they moved to their new owners, the Soviet Ministry of Fisheries over. Your mooring was the Neva River in Leningrad. After a few training rides in the Gulf of Finland it was launched in Kronstadt. According to the entry in the Lloyd's Register she was not indicated from 1967-1982 as a moving vessel. Between 1975 and 1981, she then lay in the Kronstadt naval dockyard in the dry dock where she was completely overhauled. The hull was de-rusted, repaired and fitted with anti-rust paint, then she received her white coat. 500 tons of ballast in solid form were installed, to 1,000 tonnes of ballast water and drinking water and fuel in the double bottom tanks. The dismantled former steerage cargo spaces have been set up for the reception of more than 240 men. In addition, the four-masted barque where it possesses appropriate sports, training rooms and classrooms with film and video equipment. Once on a sailor is the glass- domed banquet hall with a stage and a small museum attached to the ship's history and its namesake. The ship has since been used as a pure training ship. In May 1982, the Sedov sailed into the port of Hamburg for 793 Hamburg Harbour Birthday. Here she also visited her old captain Gottfried Clausen ( April 1, 1937 - May 8, 1945), which was received by Captain Prewoztschikow cordially. In the same year, former cadets of the North German Lloyd met for their annual meeting at the time lying in Bremerhaven Bark. The city hosted the occasion of the visit of the then 51 -year-old vessel in his old home port of a historical exhibition on the former Commodore Johnsen ex Magdalene Vinnen II

Owner since 1991, the Technical State University Murmansk, formerly National Academy of the fishing fleet. Because of the great coldness in her home port of Murmansk during the winter months, the owner strives to make the ship more often overwinter in German ports, most recently in the winters of 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 in Warnemünde.

In the summer of 2005, the Sedov served as a filming location for the TV movie The sinking of the Pamir, where the demise of the four-masted barque Pamir is based in September 1957. The previously white hull of the Sedov was it specially painted black with red hull and white waterline, the traditional colors of the ships, famous for its Flying P- Liner F. Laeisz to which the Pamir once belonged. After completion of filming the Sedov kept her new hull colors.

In addition to its main task as a training ship for cadets Murmansk State Technical University, it is possible for interested parties since 1989, mitzusegeln on the Sedov as an active part of the crew. The Sedov is a " floating museum " always a welcome guest in all ports of the world. So it is, inter alia, a regular guest at the Hamburg Harbour Birthday, at Kiel Week and the annual " Weekend on the Jade " in Wilhelmshaven and can be visited there. In May 2011, she participated in the meeting of the United Segeler the occasion of the 100 year celebration of the Passat in Travemünde part.

Specifications

• Loading capacity as a freighter: 5,340 t
• Mast height above water: 58 m
• Sail area: 3,117 m² 1,075 m² yard and fore-
• Occupation: as a merchant ship: about 30 men; as a school ship today: 55-60 man crew, plus up to 110 cadets and up to 44 paid sailors

Sailing school ship Sedov painted in F. Laeisz colors 2006

On the Open Ship Sedov 2007 in Cuxhaven

The Sedov in Hamburg at the Cruise Days 2008

The Sedov leads the parade at the outlet port of Hamburg 820th birthday

The Stena Germanica passed the painted in the F. Laeisz colors Sedov in the port of Kiel during the Kieler Woche 2007

The original ship's tonnage certificate in the ship's museum at the Hanse Sail in Warnemünde, August 7, 2010

The Sedov on the North Sea between Cuxhaven and Helgoland