Fehmarnbelt Lightship
{{Short description|German lightship}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}
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{{Infobox ship image | Ship image=File:Fehmarnbelt.jpg | Ship caption=Fehmarnbelt in the Media Docks on the northern part of the Wall peninsula }} {{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country= Germany | Ship flag= {{Shipboxflag|Germany|civil}} | Ship name=* Außeneider (1908-1956)
| Ship namesake= | Ship owner= | Ship operator= | Ship registry= | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=G.H. Thyen Werft, Brake, Germany | Ship original cost= 300,000 Reichsmark | Ship yard number= S.21 | Ship way number= | Ship laid down= | Ship launched= | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship completed= | Ship acquired= | Ship in service=1908 | Ship out of service=1984 | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified= | Ship refit= | Ship struck= | Ship reinstated= | Ship homeport=Lübeck | Ship identification=*{{MMSI Number|211352730}}
| Ship motto= | Ship nickname= | Ship fate= | Ship status= Museum ship | Ship notes= | Ship badge= }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Ship class= | Ship type= Lightship | Ship tonnage={{GRT|343}} | Ship displacement= | Ship length= {{Convert|45.44|m|ftin|abbr=on}} o/a | Ship beam= {{Convert|7.14|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | Ship draught= {{Convert|3.70|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship depth= {{Convert|4.70|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship hold depth= | Ship decks= | Ship deck clearance= | Ship power= | Ship propulsion={{Convert|300|hp|0|abbr=on}} Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz 6-cylinder diesel engine | Ship speed= {{Convert|8.6|kn|lk=in}} | Ship range= | Ship endurance= | Ship boats= | Ship crew=11 | Ship sensors= | Ship EW= | Ship notes= }} |
The Fehmarnbelt Lightship ({{langx|de|Feuerschiff Fehmarnbelt}}) was built in 1906–1908 at Brake on the River Weser and entered service in 1908 as the lightship Außeneider. Until 1945 it was moored at the position known as Außeneider guarding the estuary of the river Eider on the North Sea coast. In the years from 1956 to 1965 it was a reserve lighthouse in the Baltic Sea and then from 1965 to 1984 it was positioned under its present name in the Fehmarn Belt.
Today it belongs to a charitable society and its home port is the {{ill|Lübeck museum port|de|Museumshafen Lübeck}} in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, where it spends the winter months at least. The ship is preserved in working condition and during the summer it is taken to sea in order to test all facilities under sea conditions. Visits on board the lightship are permitted.
File:Lightvessel Fehrmarnbelt.jpg|Fehmarnbelt Museum port, Lübeck
File:Feuerschiff Fehmmarnbelt.jpg|The Fehmarnbelt Lightship in July 2006 visiting the Heiligenhafen port
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External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Fehmarnbelt (ship, 1908)}}
- [http://www.fsfehmarnbelt.de Page of the Lightships of Lübeck Society]
- {{Cite web |title=deutsche Leuchttürme/Feuerschiffe auf historischen Postkarten|trans-title=German lighthouses/lightships on historical postcards |url=http://www.leuchtturm-welt.net/HTML/DEPK/DE.HTM#LV |access-date=2023-10-05 |website=leuchtturm-welt.net}}
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Category:20th century in Schleswig-Holstein
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