Capella (concrete ship) explained

The Capella[1] is a concrete ship constructed in 1943 at Ostvinda (Swinemunde), by the manufacturer Schalenbau KG, Dyckerhoff & Widmann KG.[2] This ship was not completed during the Second World War, but after its completion, it served mainly as a digger of dredging currents and as a tugboat to other ships. In 1988, it was proclaimed a German technical monument, and in 2003, she earned a position at the Maritime Ship Museum,[3] on the Warnow River in Rostock, 250 km north of Berlin.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: M/V Capella, the last of Hitler's Concrete Ships - Rostock, Germany - Military Ships and Submarines (Decommissioned) . www.waymarking.com.
  2. Web site: Historie - Dywidag.
  3. Web site: Maritime Museum - Shipbuilding and Seafaring Museum Rostock. www.schifffahrtsmuseum-rostock.de.