Category:IMO 5068863

**Charlesville**
	ship built in 1951
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Instance of	motor ship;
Call sign	DDVR;
Named after	Georg Büchner (1967–);
Yard number	743;
Service entry	1951;
Significant event	maritime accident (54°56′1.3″N 18°31′43″E, 2013); ship breaking (2012);
Beam	19.6 m;
Draft	8.4 m;
Length	153.66 m;
Different from	Charlesville ;
	54° 56′ 06″ N, 18° 31′ 17.76″ E
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	Q1503871; IMO ship number: 5068863
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Built by: John Cockerill shipyard in Hoboken, near Antwerp, Belgium
Launched: 12 August 1950
Commissioned: March 1951
Length: 153.67 m
Beam: 19.76 m
Depth: 12.14 m
Draught: 8.38 m when laden
10,946 gross tons
Deadweight: 9,128 tons,
Carried cargo in six holds served by eighteen derricks with a lifting capacity of 5 to 40 tons
Accommodated up to 248 passengers
Propulsion: Burmeister & Wain turbine of 9,250 horse power
Speed: 16 knots.

1951 Named: CHARLESVILLE for the Belgian Shipping Company (Lloyd Royal) S.A. Flag: Belgium
1967-07-05 Sold to Deutsche Seereederei Rostock Renamed: GEORG BÜCHNER Flag: East Germany
1977-06-06 Out of service. Refitted as a stationary training ship. To allow for training on modern equipment, the foremast was removed and replaced by a massive crane
1977-11-05 In use as training ship
1991-03-15 Transferred to the city of Rostock
2003 Partly converted into a youth hostel (€ 19 to 22 including breakfast) and partly into a hotel. Some premises have been kept in their original state. Listed and protected as a Maritime Heritage site of the Land of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
2012-12 Sold to be scrapped in Klaipėda, Lithuania
2013-05-30 ~ 18.00 Sunk in the Baltic Sea in Polish territorial waters N 54° 55' 8 E 18° 31' 3

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