Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Pirola"
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Technical data of the sailing ship:
Name: | Pirola |
Ex-names: | De drie Gebroeders, Irmgard |
Registered port: | Hamburg |
Base port: | Flensburg |
Nation: | GER |
Type of rigging: | KETSCH |
Type of ship: | Heringslogger |
Year built: | 1910 |
Yard: | unbekannt/unknown, NL |
Overall length: | 25.60 m |
Length (hull): | 18.60 m |
Breadth: | 4.16 m |
Draught: | 2.00 m |
Sail area: | 204 m2 |
Ship's hull: | Stahl / Steel |
Power: | 184 PS |
Engine: | 6 Zyl. Hentschel |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 04 Apr 2021
- her exact building year and shipyard where built is not proved, certainly used as a freighter in coastal waters in the beginning of the 20th century.
- 1947 converted to a fishing cutter with an auxiliary engine by the brother de Vries, under the name "De drie Gebroeders" she was used for fishery up to 1969.
- sold to Germany and renamed the "Irmgard".
- sold to Borkum, new name was "Pirola", fitted with a new engine.
- 1974 change of her homeport to Hörnum/Sylt, used as fishing-boat and to catch shrimps, sometime she was a working-boat for different works
- svereal changes of the owner lead to bad maintenance and condition of the ship.
- 1983 purchased by new owners and generally restored until 1990, prototype of the restoration is the appearance of a logger from 1947.
- 1999 used by Greenpeace at the ship wreck of the "Pallas".
- 2001 expedition to the Arctic to Greenland with divers from Greenpeace.
- 2011 voyage from Flensburg to the North of Iceland.
- 2013 yoyage to Scotland, crossing of the Caledonian Channel to the Inner Hebrides.
- for sale since 2020.
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Contact:
Website (deutsch, 04 Apr 2021):http://www.logger-pirola.de/down
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