Schulschiff-Deutschland

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Schulschiff-Deutschland

Post by shipstamps » Thu Sep 25, 2008 12:29 pm


This three-master was once the sail training ship of the merchant shipping. Now, it is located as a monument in Bremen-Vegesack. Seamen learnt the ropes of their jobs on long sea voyages (partly oversees, up to Africa and South America) on this ship.
Built as a training ship without freight by order of the
German Training-ship Association in Bremerhaven in 1927. Oversea voyages to South America in 1927-28, summer
trips in the Baltic Sea until 1939 and voyages to South America and South Africa in the winter the "Deutschland"
and "Gorch Fock" training ships met each other on 4 May 1935 in Kattegat and the ship played the role of a British frigate in the UFA movie "Caoutchouc" in June 1935. Naval training during World War II in lsfleth, Stettin, Lübeck, Kiel and trips in the Baltic Sea. Used at the end of the war as a hospital ship in Lübeck and until 1948 as a houseboat by the German mine hunting association
she was then returned to the German Training-ship Association. Used as a youth hostel in Bremen in 1948 and a school has been on board since 1952. Moored in 1956 and then used by the navigation school in Bremen; she arrived at her current berth on 14 June 1996 on the occasion of a naval review now used as a maritime meeting point.
Germany 2005 SG?

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