Waalhafen 1970's, courtesy of Shipnostalgia by "optoon"
Wilhelmine was built in 1953 and sailed 30+ years under German flag in Europe. Obviously, before she was bought to Finland in the 80's, a lot of things had happened to the people that sailed her and to Wilhelmine herself.
Originally she was launched with a tdw of 440t and then extended in 1961 to 550tdw, which was her size until the end.
Courtesy of Wikipedia
As per marinevesseltraffic her specs were as follows:
Former names (up to year): Wilhelmine Oltmann (1988)
Ship type: General Cargo Ship
Service Status: Broken up
IMO no: 5389774
Call Sign: OIWF
Built: 1953
Builder: Stader Schiffswerft Gmbh
Gross tonnage (GT): 355
Summer deadweight (DW): 550t
Length: 51 m / 167 ft
Beam: 7 m / 23 ft
One interesting tidbit from her German era was that the Mate eventually married the daughter of Captain Theodor Oltmann. This is testimony to how close knit the life onboard was back then as a livelihood and lifestyle or perhaps the Mate played safe.
Still the offspring of the Oltmann's remember Wilhelmine as one comments on an article in LinkedIn:
On 27th June 1985 according to NY Times she collided with a west German submarine just off Kiel canal:
Courtesy of NYTimes
Courtesy of LATimes
Surprisingly the accommodation survived almost untouched but as time went by she lost her derricks, the winches for them, the original wooden lifeboat, the horn, the standard compass on the monkey island, her Deutz main engine and other loose bits and pieces as she changed owners.
Below are pictures courtesy of Jan Rautawaara who took time to dig in his archives when he was a deckhand onboard in late 90's as well as he visited maritime museums in Wischafen and sent pictures from there. They are all below in no particular order and I let the pictures speak for themselves.
German tonnage cert
Christening in 1953
Pictures from her maiden voyage
Painting of her
The Finnish Owner from the 80's
The Finnish Owner from the 80's in the saloon
The Finnish Owner from the 80's on the bridge
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