Special MRD station – M/V DRESDEN c/s DAVK
In every edition of the Maritime Radio Day we have special stations operating from important sites such as Museum Ships, Maritime Schools, where in past century hundreds of R/Os studied for their Certificates, and from building of old and well known Coast Radio Stations.
This short review id dedicated to M/V DRESDEN c/s DAVK also this year will take part at the event with callsign DL0MCM.
Info from Wikipedia:
The Frieden (known in German as the Traditionsschiff Typ Frieden) is the former German Motor Vessel Dresden operated by the VEB Deutsche Seereederei Rostock. Since 1970 it has been used as a Museum Ship.
The Dresden was built in 1956/57 at the Warnow Shipyard. It was the fifth Type IV ship in the first batch of 10,000 tonne piece-goods freighters that were built in East Germany’s shipyards after the Second World War. Because the first ship of this series was christened Frieden (commissioned in June 1957), the other ships of this series of 15 new vessels were classed as Frieden type merchant ships.
On 27 July 1958 the ship was handed over to the Deutsche Seereederei shipping line and it operated until 1969 on scheduled services to East Asia, Indonesia, Africa, India and Latin America.
on 13 June 1970 as the “Rostock Shipbuilding Museum” (Schiffbaumuseum Rostock). Part of the ship also acted as a youth hostel for a time.
Today it is part of the Rostock Shipbuilding and Shipping Museum (Rostocker Schiffbau- und Schifffahrtsmuseum) in the IGA Park and contains comprehensive exhibitions of shipbuilding history. Topics include Shipbuilding in East Germany, Shipyard Operations, the History of Maritime Radio Communications and Navigation. In addition, there is a collection of various types of ship engine. Many areas of the ship have been preserved in their original state: the Engine Room, Bridge, Radio Station, Ship’s Hospital and crew cabins and give an impression of life on a merchant ship in the 1950/60s.
In the video below the radio station is described by two OMs:
Jürgen Oehler, DF7TT and Detlef Stolz.
Detlef is the chairman of Seefunk-FX-Intern, Rostock, sister-Seefunkkameraschaft (Radio Officer Union).
Detlef is the one, who has made all our MRD awards and the automatic program (registration etc)