Sea tug Elbe.
The Elbe is a sea tug. After serving as a sea tug for 17 years, the ship served as a pilot boat in the following years and then as an action ship for Greenpeace. Today, it is a sailing museum ship.
The Elbe was commissioned in 1959. With the salvage of the German tanker Richard Kaselowsky, the ship gained international fame during its time on watch at salvage station Faial in the Azores. The tanker had a broken crankshaft and was towed to Hamburg by the Elbe. The second major towing job also made headlines when, in May 1959, the 54,000-tonne Admiralty Dock was towed from Portsmouth to the Rotterdam Dry Dock Company. This job was done jointly with the Tasman Zee and the Schelde. Until the Black Sea entered service, the Elbe was the strongest tug in the world.
This photo was taken on 7 September 2024 during the World Port Days in Rotterdam.
I am Jaap van den Berg and photography has become a great passion of mine since 2010. Since then I travel all over the world to take pictures of military aircrafts. But besides aircraft I also love to photograph other subjects like landscapes, architecture, flowers, animals, .. Read more…