Seenotrettungskreuzer Paul Denker
Bremen holds the Seenotrettungskreuzer Paul Denker, a museum ship and a former sea rescue cruiser. She was the first ship the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service constructed entirely of aluminium. She is also the smallest rescue unit ever built in Germany with a daughter boat.
The Schweers-Werft in Bardenfleth built her in 1967 as a test vehicle for the new lightweight-metal cruisers of the day. The lessons learned in her construction and service shaped the cruiser and rescue boat series that followed. She served under the internal designation KRS 01. In 1977 the service replaced her daughter boat Eiswette with an inflatable boat. Thirty-eight years of duty took her to Maasholm, Grömitz and Travemünde. Crew training at the SAR school in Neustadt in Holstein came next and lasted until 2005. Since July 2005 she has stood on display at the Focke Museum.
She carries the name of Paul Denker, the coxswain of the rescue cruiser Adolph Bermpohl. He and his entire crew died during a rescue mission in February 1967, the same year she was built.
- City
- Bremen
- Content updated
Take this page with you
The myTuur app is free, and once you are standing at a spot its story starts by itself.
Spots like this one are the stops myTuur strings into tours through Bremen. In the app, each story begins where you stand: walk up to a spot and it starts, read it on screen or listen as you go, then follow the route to the next one.
What is myTuur?
myTuur is a free city-guide app. Its tours are built from spots, and each spot carries a story that starts when you get there, to read or to listen to as you like.