Verkehrshaus der Schweiz, Luzern (Foto: Urs Mattle)

Rettungsboot

Rettungsboot zum MS Carona der Schweizerischen Reederei AG (mit Klinkerplankung, Hilfsmast und Segel)

Dating

1948–1949

Persons

Schweizerische Reederei AG (1919 - 1975), Betreiber/in oder Benutzer/in, archivalisch belegt

W. Gray & Co Ltd, Hersteller/in, archivalisch belegt

Seepfadfinderabteilung Zürich (Seepfadi) (1958), Betreiber/in oder Benutzer/in, archivalisch belegt

Description

Rettungsboot zu MS Carona der Schweizerischen Reederei AG (mit Klinkerplankung, Hilfsmast und Segel).

Signature / Inscription

Signatur / Beschriftung: Beschriftung: Messingplakette "M/V Carona / Boat No. 1 / 55 Pers. / 29 0X8 75X36"

Object type

Object (three-dimensional)

Geography

Gebrauchsort: westfriesische Insel Terschelling

Material / Technique

Holz, Klinkerplankung

Dimensions

ca. 900 x 250 x 180 cm ca. 500 kg

Inventory number

VHS-5484a

Legend

Lifeboat from the sunken MS Carona, Great Britain 1948 34 sailors and 2 passengers owe their lives to this boat Following a collision with a Liberian freighter off the West Friesian islands on 28 February 1964, the badly damaged Swiss ocean-going vessel MS Carona sank in a matter of minutes. It was only thanks to rapid action, that the entire crew and passengers were able to save themselves. Because of the MS Carona’s severe list, only the starboard lifeboat could be lowered into the water. After two hours’ rowing towards the acoustic warning signals, the shipwrecked mariners reached the permanently moored Terschellingerbank lightship. There all 34 crew and two passengers were picked up by a Dutch maritime rescue vessel and taken to the island of Terschelling. The crew took the lifeboat with them to Rotterdam and later to Basel. It found its way to Lake Zurich where it served the Sea Scouts as a rescue boat until 1988. Today there is probably no other contemporary witness in the world that succeeds in documenting a shipwreck and rescue so authentically and even with original film recordings as does the MS Carona’s lifeboat.