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The ship was built from 1906 to 1908 at the Thyen shipyard in Brake an der Weser as a three-mast schooner with emergency sails and put into service in 1908 as a lightship Außeneneider. It lay with interruptions until 1944 on the position Außeneider before the mouth of the Eider into the North Sea, in the years 1914 to 1916 on position Süderpiep. In 1918/19 it was involved in military operations in the Baltic Sea. In 1931 an engine was installed. From 1945 to 1948 it was used as a guard ship on the forced mine route P 11-P 15 in the German Bight. 1949 to 1953 it was a replacement lightship for the position Amrumbank (P 15). 1954 and 1956 it came to different changes. The beacon has been amplified, a radio beacon has been retrofitted. In the years from 1956 to 1965 it was used as reserve Holtenau (reserve lightship) on the positions Flensburg, Kiel and Fehmarnbelt, 1961 short time on Elbe 1 and then from 1965 to 1984 under its today's name on position in the Fehmarnbelt. On 31 March 1984 it was the last German lightship to be decommissioned on the Baltic Sea; the position was taken over by an unmanned large buoy.
In the same year, the ship served as Hatteras'; film ship for the shooting of the US feature film The Lightship (based on the story The Lightship by Siegfried Lenz) on Sylt. It has been a museum ship since 1986.
Today, the ship belongs to the non-profit association Feuerschiff für Lübeck e. V. and has been moored at Behnkai in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck in front of the Media Docks on the northern Wallhalbinsel since autumn 2009. It is kept in running order and since 1989 has made trips in the summer to test all the facilities under sea conditions; it is also possible to visit them on board.
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The ship was built from 1906 to 1908 at the Thyen shipyard in Brake an der Weser as a three-mast schooner with emergency sails and put into service in 1908 as a lightship Außeneneider. It lay with interruptions until 1944 on the position Außeneider before the mouth of the Eider into the North Sea, in the years 1914 to 1916 on position Süderpiep. In 1918/19 it was involved in military operations in the Baltic Sea. In 1931 an engine was installed. From 1945 to 1948 it was used as a guard ship on the forced mine route P 11-P 15 in the German Bight. 1949 to 1953 it was a replacement lightship for the position Amrumbank (P 15). 1954 and 1956 it came to different changes. The beacon has been amplified, a radio beacon has been retrofitted. In the years from 1956 to 1965 it was used as reserve Holtenau (reserve lightship) on the positions Flensburg, Kiel and Fehmarnbelt, 1961 short time on Elbe 1 and then from 1965 to 1984 under its today's name on position in the Fehmarnbelt. On 31 March 1984 it was the last German lightship to be decommissioned on the Baltic Sea; the position was taken over by an unmanned large buoy.
In the same year, the ship served as Hatteras'; film ship for the shooting of the US feature film The Lightship (based on the story The Lightship by Siegfried Lenz) on Sylt. It has been a museum ship since 1986.
Today, the ship belongs to the non-profit association Feuerschiff für Lübeck e. V. and has been moored at Behnkai in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck in front of the Media Docks on the northern Wallhalbinsel since autumn 2009. It is kept in running order and since 1989 has made trips in the summer to test all the facilities under sea conditions; it is also possible to visit them on board.
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