Storstrøms Bridge and DE TUKKER.
Built in 1912 as a clipper-aak by G & H Bodewes, Martenshoek, Netherlands for an unknown owner.
Launched under the name ENTERIOS.
Tonnage 79 grt., dim. 29.6 x 5.54 x 1.45m. (draught).
Sail area 410 square meters.
Powered by a GM diesel engine, 240 hp.
The clipper aak was used by many Dutch Northerly owners for inland trade or as coastal vessel to the Baltic, but even long deep-sea voyages have been made by this type of craft.
She has carried before she was bought by Jarabee Zeilschip de Tukker, Hengelo the following names under different owners. INDUNA, SEMA BORRIES and HARTELIEF, (owners unknown)
About 28 years ago was she bought by Jarabee Zeilschip de Tukker and renamed in DE TUKKER. Named after the nickname of the people of the district Twente in the Netherlands.
She provide young persons with multiple complex problems with new opportunities by jointly restoring a one-hunderd year old sailing ship, going out to sail and by letting them experience all the possibilities and impossibilities of sailing on a turbulent sea, as well as the struggle with themselves.
2004 Transferred to Stichting De Tukker Zeilschip at Enschede.
Makes voyages from the Netherlands in the Wadden Sea, North Sea, Baltic, visiting ports in the U.K., Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Germany.
On the label she is seen nearing the Storstrøms Bridge which links the island of Falster and Sealand.
(The former ex names of DE TUKKER given in WP are not correct for this vessel, the Dutch inland waterway database gives the correct names, and I have used these names.)
Denmark 2007 franking lable.
Source: De Binnenvaart schepen on line. Watercraft Philately 2008 page 49/50. http://www.zeilschipdetukker.nl/zeilsch ... ngship.htm