Ship profile for the sailing ship: "Berta"
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Technical data of the sailing ship:
Name: | Berta |
Registered port: | Greifswald |
Nation: | GER |
Type of rigging: | KETSCH |
Type of ship: | Besanewer |
Year built: | 1910 |
Yard: | J. Junge, Wewelsfleth, GER |
Length (hull): | 18.00 m |
Breadth: | 4.60 m |
Draught: | 1.10 m |
Sail area: | 170 m2 |
Ship's hull: | Stahl / Steel |
Portrait of the sailing ship:
Last update: 01 Sep 2000
- built by order of the grain and building material store Raesch in Lassan, up to 1945 she sailed as a freighter between Stettin and Lassan.
- after 1945 she was often used on the coast of Pommerania on the bay and shallow bay on the Baltic, up to 1952 without an engine, one of the last active freighter under sail from Germany.
- 1953 sold to Wolgast, fitted with an auxiliary engine, the rig was partly removed.
- 1957 removal of the rest of her rig, laid up in 1963, pulled on the beach near Ludwigsburg in 1968.
- 1985 transported to Halle/GER and later to Leipzig to generally restore the ship.
- 1993 transported back from Leipzig to the river Elbe, 1995 recommissioned under engine power.
- 1999 finished the restoration of the original rig.
- took part in the 2000 Hanse-Konvoi (Lübeck, Wismar, Rostock, Stralsund, Greifswald) and took part in the Hanse Sail Rostock very often.
- since 2004 she is homeported in Greifswald, GER using the museum habour.
Contact:
Website (deutsch, 07 Oct 2022):https://www.traditionssegler-berta.de/new
Berta von Lassan: history and data of the ship, schedules for sailing, photos
Literature for further reading:
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"Piekfall"
Mitteilungsblatt der Freunde des Gaffelriggs
(http://www.freunde-des-gaffelriggs.de/)
Page: 6-9 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data
Peter Schüßler
"Berta von Dessau segelt wieder"
Edition: 70
Peter Rath
"Hanse Sail Rostock - Wo man sich begegnet"
Hanse Sail Verein Rostock e.V. 2005
(http://www.hansesail.com/)
Page: 49 Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data
"Piekfall"
Mitteilungsblatt der Freunde des Gaffelriggs
(http://www.freunde-des-gaffelriggs.de/)
Page: 26-29 Source with picture Source with history
"Dessaus dicke Berta (II)"
Edition: 53
Peter Schüßler (Hrsg.)
"Der Ewer Berta von Lassan - Die Geschichte des letzten deutschen Frachtseglers"
2012
(Dessau-Roßlau, 2. Erweiterte Auflage)
Source with picture Source with history Source with technical data