FLB-40-1 rotting away at Wilhelmshaven, 21.09.2013

FLB 40-1 is a former ocean-going fire fighting vessel which was positioned at Rostock between 1981 and the beginning of the 1990s. With German reunification FLB-40-1 (and her sisters FLB-40-2 and 3) became sort of dispensable and FLB-40-1 and 2 were sold to a shipping agent at Wilhelmshaven. Since then every attempt to sell them failed and so they've been rusting away for the last 20 years...

FLB-40-1
Built by VEB Yachtwerft Berlin-Köpenick, Germany
Year of build: 1981 (as the first of three sisterships)
Project no. 1312

L/B/D (m): 40,20 / 7,60 / 2,20
Gross tonnage: 259