Fotos - my visit to Bremmerhaven Museum Harbour

[MarkC]

I've been up north (Germany). 30mins by train north from Bremmen is the harbour (Bremmerhaven) - contains a very good maritime museum.

Takes a day to see. Very little info in English. Lots of exhibits - very model-based (due to history...).

Thought you would enjoy seeing the 'Spitzcanadier' canoe 'Kakadu' with a 2.5hp 'König' side-bord-motor (5.40m long, 1.30m wide, .60 high):

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This below was my favourite model - German pilot vessel:

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Just briefly - also featured were some good static displays. Rough+ready traditional german wooden river fishing vessels - the german sail-racing classes - a good selection of german sea rescue boats including a small colin-archer type - mini (2 man) ww2 submarine - many German steam and diesel engines - cabins of ships through the ages. A whole hall of tide and current measuring devices.

Outside featured tug-boats (one with an operational Schneider-Voigt propulsion system, a modern whaler, and one of the last U-Boats built (but anoyingly not part of the museum)...

[RodB]

Thanks for the post, nice photos.

RB

[Nicholas Carey]

I've been up north (Germany). 30mins by train north from Bremmen is the harbour (Bremmerhaven) - contains a very good maritime museum.

Takes a day to see. Very little info in English. Lots of exhibits - very model-based (due to history...).I assume Bremerhaven was hit pretty hard by Allied bombing during the war?

Thought you would enjoy seeing the 'Spitzcanadier' canoe 'Kakadu' with a 2.5hp 'König' side-bord-motor (5.40m long, 1.30m wide, .60 high):

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid215/p1d34a645ffb9a285e964af174d748e3c/ecf679dd.jpgI thought longtails were a Thai peculiarity :D

[MarkC]

Nicholas - many longtails can be found on german ebay along with the 'folding-kyaks' (Puch, Klepper etc).

Bremmen and Bremmerhaven were heavily bombed.

Oddly we went to Bremmen because we could find no accommodation in Hamburg. What a surprise delight Bremen was! Great city to visit - the old square, the art-deco section. Book ahead if you want to do the Becks Brewery tour... We did a boat-tour of bremmen (with its own harbour) saw the U-Boat base with its 8m thick cement that they could not bomb or remove later. Took a boat-tour of Bremmerhaven as well - huge harbour, floating ship dry-docks with ships cut in half, tug-boats galore.

The Museum was good too. Here is some pictures from the outside display:

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Helmut the Hamburg harbour tug, Rau the modern-day whaler, SeaFalke the Bremmerhaven Tug (Great to see inside).

The UBoat behind belongs to another museum -more entry money - one of the latter experimental models.

One more foto - this was in the Museum Cafe. It is a rope and twine selection, presented in a glass cabinet, from an old shipping supply house. Sorry that it is on an angle!? Note that the left hand selection was purely New Zealand Hemp product:

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The Museum Cafe has an excellent view over the mouth of the river - shipps chugging past. The Museum is child friendly too. Only complaint was no English tour... I had my brother from Australia with me and I had to translate everything.

[Old Sailor]

The last time I was in Bremerhaven I was going aboard a troop ship to come home.
Old Sailor

[bamamick]

The copper roofs in the main square are pretty awesome. Unfortunately it was raining the entire time that I was there but it was a nice trip. Did you see the windmill at the Beck's brewery?

Mark, if you get the chance you should make the run to Amsterdam. The Maritime museum is unbelieveable. They have a wing for Olympic boats. They have thousands of pieces of artwork. They have a half model room you wouldn't believe, with a half model of every Holland-America liner ever built (iirc). I can't put into words everything in that place. It took me a day to walk it.

Mickey Lake

[MarkC]

Windmill? I cant remember. But I did see a 'Farmer Braun' loading the used malt, from a shute, into his hoppers all pulled by his John Dere tractor.

I would love to see the museum in Amsterdam.

But the one in Bremmerhaven also took a day to walk, not forgetting it is the German Maritime Museum. Its a huge history.

I forgot to mention - they have a cogge (14 century sail trading sea boat) that they dug up from the river Weser mud and preserved in the museum.

I have been spoilt by the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney with their really in-depth info on exhibits and topics. My problem with the Bremmerhaven museum was that they dont cull the stuff down a bit to the best examples and provide better information.

Also - have you tried to take a photo of a ship model in a glass-case? Not fun.

I have done a few searches on the web-site of the National Maritime Museum in England - have a look at their weapons section.