The history of my ship: Sperber F-4 - Gellen - Sabine - Triton I- Heart of Berlin
A ship historian recently sent me a wonderful summary of the history of my ship:
Built in 1958 at VEB Yachtwerft Berlin under construction no. 04 of project 539 „Sperber“ (539-4) Information on the rating plate
Length: 25.90m / Width: 4.45m / Draught: 1.42m
Engine: 1 diesel engine type 8 KVD 18/21 A with 580 hp
Building name : Sperber 4 (this name was never used on the ship)
Commissioned by the VP-See in Rostock as a torpedo fishing boat with tactical identification F - 4 (but was unsuitable for service) - therefore
from 1960 transfer to the People's Navy of the GDR in Rostock / used as a torpedo transporter under the tactical identification B - 04
from 1962 change of ownership to the Maritime Hydrographic Service of the GDR in Stralsund / tactical identification D 28 / used as buoy setter and buoy layer
- newly motorised with a 270 hp type 6 NVD 26 A engine from the Dieselmotorenwerk (DMW) Rostock
Decommissioned in 1970 and converted into a passenger ship at the Volkswerft Stralsund shipyard - where your ship got its present appearance!
Put into service as passenger ship „GELLEN“ on 20 May 1971 with the passenger ship no. P-435 at VEB Weiße Flotte Stralsund
(receipt of a DSRK-No. 40655 of the ship classification of the GDR) - further data like ice class KM-class etc. are known to me...
- in service until 1991 as a passenger ship, then change of ownership to Willi Stengel in Dranske and renamed „SABINE“
- only in service for a short time - then already in December 1992 change of ownership to Triton-Reederei in Ralswieck and renamed „TRITON I“
- in service until 1996 - then parked in the harbour of Peenemünde - later sold to an unknown owner in Hamburg and relocated there
- since then without concrete use - never got going again ...
So much for the history of your ship, which you would now like to lovingly breathe life back into.
I am very pleased about this, there were 4 identical ships of your ship, another one was rebuilt in a similar form and is now a residential ship „HAFFTOURIST“ in Wischhafen near Stade (behind the small museum harbour) - so not so far away from your current berth...
