Construction and Working Life
The Thekla was built in Germany in 1959. One of the last of the riveted ships to be produced, she was 650 tons unladen, measured one hundred and eighty feet long from stem to stern, and thirty feet wide, with an eight foot draft. The Thekla's hold was lined with one of the hardest woods in the world, red jarrah from Australia. She is a "Coaster" ship and powered by a U-boat engine left over from the Second World War). The Thekla was used for more than twenty years to transport timber to and from ports of the Baltic Sea. After running aground at Gravesend in Kent she was left rusting away for seven years in the half-abandoned docks of Sunderland on the eastern coast of England, before being purchased by the Stanshalls.
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