Greif (brigantine)
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![]() Greif at "Hanse Sail 2008"
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Name | Wilhelm Pieck |
Owner | Greifswald, Germany |
Acquired | 1951 |
Commissioned | 2 August 1951 |
Renamed | Greif |
Identification | IMO number: 8862571 |
Status | Training ship |
Notes | Call sign, DQFD |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Brigantine; 100 A5 Sailing ship, German Lloyd |
Tons burthen | 179,2 tons; 280 tons displacement |
Length | 41.10 m (134.8 ft) LOA |
Beam | 7.40 m (24.3 ft) |
Draft | max. 3,60 m |
Propulsion | MTU Marine Diesel, 8 cylinders, 233 HP |
Sail plan | 15 sails, 570 m² sail area, 14 kn (26 km/h) max. speed under sail |
Complement | Max. 50 crew |
Greif is a brigantine, owned by the town Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
It was built in 1951 at , Warnemünde/Rostock with a steel hull,[1] launched May 26, 1951 and commissioned August 2, 1951.[2] It was the first steel vessel built after World War II at the port, and was christened Wilhelm Pieck after the first president of the German Democratic Republic.[3] In 1990 it participated in the first German sail event.[4] The ship was later given to the town of Greifswald and overhauled in Rostock, and re-christened Greif.[5]
The ship is used as a training ship for maritime youth education. It has participated in the Hanse Sail, including Hanse Sail Rostock 2011.[6]
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Grief out of the water
See also[]
- Hanne Marie (also based from Greifswald)
References[]
External links[]
- www.sssgreif.de[permanent dead link]
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