HERMANN MARWEDE rescue vessel

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The Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger (DGzRS) is responsible for Search and Rescue in German territorial waters in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, including the Exclusive Economic Zone.
The headquarters and the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre of the Society are located in Bremen. It was founded in Kiel on 29 May 1865. It owns 61 lifeboats at 54 stations, 185 employed crew members and 800 volunteers. The Society has about 2000 engagements every year. Up to 2005, it had rescued approximately 72,000 persons. In 2004 it saved 368 lives, rescued 837 persons from critical situations and carried out 343 medical transports. The DGzRS is entirely financed by membership fees, private donations and legacies.
Writer and honorary member Nikolai von Michalewsky has immortalized the DGzRS in his series of science fiction novels by taking it as the model for his "Independent Society for Saving Space-wrecked".
The DGzRS operates 61 vessels on 54 stations in the North Sea and Baltic. 20 of which are seagoing cruisers between 20 m and 46 m of length and 41 vessels are classified as inshore lifeboats. A feature of the cruisers is that all but the 20-m class carry a fully equipped small lifeboat or daughter-craft on deck which can quickly be released through a gate in the stern for conducting operations in shallow waters. This principle was developed by DGzRS in the 1950s. The 20-m class uses a rigid-hulled inflatable boat instead.
The HERMANN MARWEDE is the only search and rescue vessel of the 46-m-class of the DGzRS. The construction of the HERMANN MARWEDE was an essential part of the programme to upgrade the DGzRS for the 21st Century. She is considered the largest search and rescue vessel in the world.
The hull was built by Aluship Gdańsk in Gdańsk and completed in 2003 by the Fassmer Werft shipyard at Berne, Germany. The DGzRS internal designation is SK 29.
The daughter-craft VERENA (DGzRS internal designation TB 32), built by the Lürssen shipyard in Bardenfleth. It was replaced by a RIB with the same name (internal designation TB 36) in the autumn of 2012. The old daughter-craft was renamed WALTER ROSE and used as an independent lifeboat on the Schilksee.
The ship was christened at the Fassmer shipyard in Berne on 27 June 2003 in honour of long-time shareholder of Brauerei Beck and promoter of DGzRS, HERMANN MARWEDE. The Godmother was the grand-daughter of the namesake, Vera Kaiser. The daughter-craft was given the name of the daughter Marwedes’ daughter, Verena. Godmother was the great-granddaughter, Charlotte-Sophie Grobien. "SAR" on the bow stands for Search and Rescue.
Since July 2003, the HERMANN MARWEDE has been stationed at the island of Helgoland. It replaced the WILHELM KAISEN which was transferred to Sassnitz on the island of Rügen
In May 2005 the HERMANN MARWEDE attended a conference of the Maritime Safety Committee in the city of London (see attached image).

Flag: German
Type of ship: Search & rescue vessel
IMO: 9282601
Class: 46-m class
Callsign : DBAR
Builder – hull: Aluship Gdańsk
Fitting out and completion: Fassmer Werft , Berne, Germany
Hull number: 1910
Christened: 27 June 2003
Launched: 2003

Ship Dimensions and crew
Length: 46.0 m ( LOA )
Width: 10.66 m
Draft: max. 2.8 m
Displacement 404 tons
Crew: 15
She can, in emergencies, take up to 600 people on board.
Machine: 3 marine diesel engines
Machine performance: 9,250 hp (6,803 kW)
Speed: max. 25 kn (46 km / h)
Propellers: 3

Daughter-craft VERENA
Length: 8.90 m
Width: 3.60 m
Draft: 0.65 m
Speed: 32 kn

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Sources: Wikipedia.

Peter Crichton.