''Capella'' is a

concrete ship Concrete ships are built primarily with ferrocement (reinforced concrete) hulls, reinforced with steel bars. This contrasts against more traditional materials, such as pure steel or wood. The advantage of ferrocement construction is that materials ...

constructed in 1943 at Ostvinda ( Swinemunde), by the manufacturer Schalenbau KG, Dyckerhoff & Widmann KG.

Overview

This ship was not completed during the

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, but after its completion, it served mainly as a digger of dredging currents and as a tugboat to other ships. In 1988, it was proclaimed a German technical monument, and in 2003, she earned a position at the Maritime Ship Museum, on the

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River in

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, 250 km

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