Lugger · Germany
AE7-Stadt Emden
A 1908 herring lugger, now a museum ship in Emden and a reminder of the herring trade.
Technical data
- Rig
- Lugger
- Flag
- Germany
- Home port
- Emden
- Built
- 1908
- Shipyard
- Vlaardingen, NL
- Hull material
- Wood
- Length
- 24.02 m
- Beam
- 6.46 m
Emden has a long tradition of herring fishing, and this lugger is a floating record of it. She was built in 1908 at a yard in Vlaardingen, the Netherlands, and fished herring for Dutch owners.
From 1931 she carried cargo — mostly cement — along the Norwegian coast, and was fitted with an auxiliary engine in 1950. In 1977 she came to Bremerhaven and was rebuilt as a restaurant.
In 1987 the Emden association Arbeitskreis Logger e.V. took her over and restored her by 1995 to plans from the Visserijmuseum in Vlaardingen, renaming her AE 7-Stadt Emden. She now lies permanently moored as a museum ship with exhibitions on the history of herring fishing in Emden.