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Monday, 1 August 2016

Dutch 2-mast schooner Zuiderzee (1909) 1986-

Schelde off Vlissingen, Netherlands 1 August 2016


Inner harbour off Vlissingen, Netherlands 1 August 2016

Netherlands-flagged, IMO 9097264, MMSI 246084000 and call sign PIYX. Built by Scheepswerf Waterhuizen J. Pattje, Waterhuizen, Netherlands in 1909-1910 for account of F.K. Kortum, Neustadt, Germany. Repaired by H. Peters, Bedenflebt where 70% hull renewed after seriously being damaged, repaired and lengthened and converted into coastal vessel by Pohl&Zozwiak, Hamburg, Germany in 1950, became a lighter at Kiel at the end of the 1960s, rebuilt as a 2-mast gaff schooner in 1976-1978 and became passenger ship. Ex-Ernst Wilhelm renamed 1914, Hans renamed 1916, Holtenau renamed 1921 or 1925, Pirat renamed 1925 or 1927, Klaus Hinrich Karstens renamed 1933, Einigkeit renamed 1933 and Genius renamed 1965. Sources differs dealing with exact details. Gross tonnage 131 ton.