German Maritime Search and Rescue Service

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Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger
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DGzRS logo
Formation 29 May 1865
Legal status Charity
Purpose Saving lives at sea
Headquarters Bremen
Region served
 North Sea
Baltic Sea
Staff
 185
Volunteers
 800
Website dgzrs.de

The German Maritime Search and Rescue Service (German: Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbrüchiger - DGzRS) is responsible for Search and Rescue in German territorial waters in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, including the Exclusive Economic Zone.

The headquarters and the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre of the Society are located in Bremen. It was founded in Kiel on 29 May 1865. It owns 61 lifeboats at 54 stations which are operated by 185 employed crew members and 800 volunteers. The society has about 2000 engagements every year. Up to 2005, it rescued approximately 72,000 persons. In 2004 it saved 368 lives, rescued 837 persons from critical situations and carried out 343 medical transports. The DGzRS is entirely financed by membership fees, private donations and legacies.

Writer and honorary member Nikolai von Michalewsky has immortalized the DGzRS in his series of science fiction novels by taking it as the model for his "Independent Society for Saving Spacewrecked".

Fleet

The DGzRS operates 61 vessels on 54 stations in the North Sea and Baltic. 20 of which are seagoing cruisers between 20 m and 46 m of length and 41 vessels are classified as inshore lifeboats. A feature of the cruisers is that all but the 20-m class carry a fully equipped small lifeboat on deck which can quickly be released through a gate in the aft for conducting operations in shallow waters. This principle was developed by DGzRS in the 1950s.[1] The 20-m class uses a rigid-hulled inflatable boat instead.[2]

Lifeboats

Name Station Remarks
46-m class
Hermann Marwede Heligoland biggest ship of the DGzRS
36-m class
Harro Koebke Sassnitz
27.5-m class
Berlin Laboe
Hermann Helms Cuxhaven
Alfried Krupp Borkum
Vormann Steffens Hooksiel
Arkona Warnemünde
Bremen Großenbrode
23.3-m class
Minden List (Sylt)
Vormann Leiss Amrum
Nis Randers Maasholm
Vormann Jantzen Reserve (Baltic Sea)
Hannes Glogner Reserve (North Sea)
23.1-m class
Hermann Rudolf Meyer Bremerhaven
Hans Hackmack Grömitz
Theo Fischer Darßer Ort
Bernhard Gruben Norderney
20-m class
Eiswette Nordstrand
Eugen Greifswalder Oie
Theodor Storm Büsum

Gallery

  • SK John T Essberger 2.jpg

    SK John T. Essberger, one of the large 44m-class cruisers of the DGzRS

  • SK Hermann Marwede, the only one of the large 46m-class cruisers of the DGzRS

  • The Marwede at sea

  • SK Berlin, a 27m-class cruiser of the DGzRS, and a SeaKing helicopter of the German Navy

  • HermannHelms3.JPG

    SK Herman Helms, a cruiser of the 27m-class

  • Vormann Jantzen.jpg

    SK Vormann Jantzen

  • SRB Eltje in Husum.JPG

    S&R boat Eltje

  • Dgzrs minden-hafen-list-sylt-germany.jpg

    SK Minden in the port of Sylt island

  • DGzRS - Seenotkreuzer Bernhard Gruben mit Tochterboot Johann Fidi im Einsatz - 2013.jpg

    SK Bernhard Gruben with daughter boat during an exercise in the North Sea off Juist island

  • DBP 1965 478 Dt Ges zur Rettung Schiffbruechiger.jpg

    Commemorative stamp honoring the DGzRS's 100th anniversary (issued in 1965)

See also

References

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External links

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