"Vegesack BV2" - Sailing ship

The sail logger "Vegesack" was baptized in Bremen-Vegesack

The sailing logger "Vegesack" with the old fishing licence plate BV 2 (home port Bremen-Vegesack) was christened and put into service in 1895 in Bremen-Vegesack. The ship was one of five herring loggers commissioned by the newly founded Bremer Vegesacker Fischereigesellschaft. The logger, equipped with a crew of 14, fished until 1921 with static nets at 58 degrees latitude - for example between Stavanger in Norway and the Scottish Orkney Islands in the North Sea. The "Vegesack" brought home 22 604 Kantjes (wooden herring barrels) during her 26 years in the active fishing service. After the logger was taken out of service, it was fitted with a glow head piston engine and from 1922 onwards sailed under the name "Lili" as a freighter in the North Sea and Baltic Sea. Between 1939 and 1971 the ship went to Sweden and sailed there under different names. Only in 1979 the hull was rediscovered in Sweden and sold to Hamburg. Since 1989 "BV2" belongs to the association Maritime Tradition Vegesack, which brought the sailing logger back to the Lesum in its old home port.

Type: Segellogger
Owner: Vegesack Logger BV 2 GmbH, Bremen
Port of call: Bremen
Nation: GER
Length: 35,40 m
Width: 5,40 m
Draft: 2,50 m
Sail area: 360 m²
Crew: 13

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