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JURNIEKS training vessel

Post by aukepalmhof » Tue Jan 14, 2014 2:02 am

The stamp for the Museum Foundations of Latvia shows in the background of the stamp a model of a sailing vessel, which Mr. Sitnikov from Russia informed my that she is the training vessel JURNIEKS.

She was built as a wooden sailing vessel in 1904 by the yard of K Skaaluren in Hardanger, Norway for Captain J.K. Lunde in Stavanger, Norway.
Launched as the IDEAL.
Tonnage 137 grt, dim. 97 x 23.8 x 9.6ft.
Schooner rigged. (On the stamp she is shown as a hermaphrodite brig, if she was re-rigged later when in use as a training vessel I could not find.)
1904 Delivered to owner.

28 February 1914 sold to Carl Demelius, Hamburg and renamed in SENTA.
1918 After World War I was she temporarily used as a fishing vessel with Nr HH 111.
1920 A 2-cyl auxiliary oil engine was installed manufactured by the Grade Motorwerke Augsburg, 48 nhp.
1925 Sold to Miechielsen & Spiesen, Hamburg and renamed on 27 May 1952 in LUCHS.
11 January 1926 bought by the Ostsee Reederei and Handelsgellschaft MbH, Hamburg.
Loaded with 11,000 cans of alcohol is she seized south of Libau in the Latvian territorial waters by the Latvian customs.
The shipping company could not pay the fine of 500,000 Ls, and the LUCHS was offered for sail by the Latvian custom department.
She was bought by the Latvian Sea Department, and under her old name or possible LUX was she used as a cargo vessel and sometimes used for Marine Training of the cadets of the Maritime school in Riga.
1930 Conversion to a training vessel and renamed in JURNIEKS.
1940 After the annexation of Latvia by the USSR the JURNIEKS was transferred to the State Latvian Shipping Company.
04 July 1941 found by the German troops in Riga, she was not treated as a prize by the German authorities, and was kept in service by the Maritime School in Riga, Latvia.
16 March 1943 she was confiscated by the German Navy and send to the Naval Academy Mürwick, Gotenhafen (Gdynia).
26 May transferred to the Deutsche Werke Kiel AG (DWK) in Gotenhafen
1945 When the war ended she was found in Flensburg, Germany without masts and was apparently used by the German Navy as workshop or storage vessel.
1947 Was the last time she is mentioned, fate unknown.

Latvia 2008 22s sg?, scott?

Source: http://warsailors.com/forum/read.php?1,2921,2921 and Lloyds Register
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Jurnieks before school.jpg
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