Greif (brigantine)

Greif at "Hanse Sail 2008"
Germany
Name:	Wilhelm Pieck
Owner:	Greifswald, Germany
Acquired:	1951
Commissioned:	2 August 1951
Renamed:	Greif
Identification:	IMO number: 8862571
Status:	Training ship
Notes:	Call sign, DQFD
General characteristics
Class and type:	Brigantine; 100 A5 Sailing ship, German Lloyd
Tonnage:	179,2 tons; 280 tons displacement
Length:	41.10 m (134.8 ft) LOA
Beam:	7.40 m (24.3 ft)
Draft:	max. 3,60 m
Propulsion:	MTU Marine Diesel, 8 cylinders, 233 HP
Sail plan:	15 sails, 570 m² sail area, 14 kn (26 km/h) max. speed under sail
Complement:	Max. 50 crew

Greif is a brigantine, owned by the town Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

It was built in 1951 at Warnowwerft, Warnemünde/Rostock with a steel hull,^[1] launched May 26, 1951 and commissioned August 2, 1951.^[2] It was the first steel vessel built after World War II at the port, and was christened Wilhelm Pieck after the first president of the German Democratic Republic.^[3] In 1990 it participated in the first German sail event.^[4] The ship was later given to the town of Greifswald and overhauled in Rostock, and re-christened Greif.^[5]

The ship is used as a training ship for maritime youth education. It has participated in the Hanse Sail, including Hanse Sail Rostock 2011.^[6]

Grief out of the water

See also

• Hanne Marie (also based from Greifswald)

References

External links

• www.sssgreif.de^{[yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}]}
• http://www.ship-model-today.de/wilhelm_pieck.htm

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