58 / 425gt (DEU) [ggc]

owner : Ernst-August von Allworden
manager : Peter Dohle Schiffahrts

built : J. J. Sietas Schiffswerft, Neuenfelde, Hamburg, DEU
yd # : 446
L - 01:05:1958

ex - Ernst de Buhr - 65 (DEU)

82 > Hohensee (DEU) - Partenreederei m.s. 'Hohensee'
85 > Star Libra (GBG) - John G. & Maureen M. Thompson (Torbay Seaways)
89 > (GBR) - Portside Marine Services Co.
90 > Vasant (VCT) - Eagle Maritima Ltd.
91 > Crystal V (HND) - unspecified
95 > Kati K (EST) - A.S Teravsilm
02 > Rika (EST) -

Amazingly this little vessel is still in the registers as 'active', some 50 years after her launch, a tribute to the workmanship of the Sietas yard. I guess it's also a sort of mourning for the loss of the coaster category, for if ever vessels were coasters, it was these little gems built at Sietas, and other yards particularly in Germany and Holland between the war years and the late 60's, before the container feeders took over.

photo : Wisbech, 19:01:1981
photo : © Dr. Allan Ryszka-Onions 1981/2008

Does anyone know which Sietas type she is ???