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Mainz (later museum ship Mannheim)
Mainz at her moorings in Mannheim on July 14th, 2012. Photo by kind courtesy of Phil Barnes. Click here for more photos from 2012
Built in 1929 by
Christof Ruthof at Mainz
Length : 83.6 metres Breadth 8.6 / 16.2 m
Machinery - Compound diagonal
Reboilered in 1955 to become oil burning
Sank in June 1956 after a collision near Koblenz
Raised and refitted by Berninghaus at Cologne and was back in service
in 1957
Withdrawn in 1980 after technical problems
Transferred in 1985 to Mannheim and opened in October 1986 as a
museum of Rhine shipping and industry under the name Mannheim
Engine in situ
Closed in 2018 and needing substantial maintenance work on her hull, her future was thrown in doubt
In
April 2023 it was announced that the Technoseum (Mannheimer Museum fur
Technik und Arbeit) had transferred the ship to the Verein
Museumsschiff Mannheim
The ship was then moved temporarily to Cologne for refurbishment
Above : Mainz as new. A KD-published post card view courtesy of Markus Graf
Above : Mainz (1953-1956 condition). Photo shown with kind permission of Markus Graf
Above : Mainz (1957-1974 condition). Photo shown with kind permission of Markus Graf
Above : Mainz moored in Mannheim in
1987 in her role as an industrial museum. More from 1987
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