Museumshafen Oevelgönne e.V.
Working fleet of historic steamships and sailing vessels, rescued from the scrapyard and kept afloat by volunteers.
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This guide to the Museumshafen Oevelgoenne in Hamburg opens on the ELBE THREE, an 1888 lightship pulled from service off Cuxhaven in 1977 and sold not to a museum but to a scrapyard. It follows a handful of sailing friends who had founded the association a year earlier on the blunt idea that old working boats are worth more afloat than broken up for metal, and their campaign to bring the ship home to Hamburg in time for the harbor's birthday. Look at the red hull riding at anchor at Neumuhlen, once priced by the ton as scrap.
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