A documentary platform by the Moorschmied Manufactory
The wood that saw Patagonia.
From the hull of the Feuerland — Gunther Plüschow's expedition ship of 1927 — to the workrooms of the Moorschmied Manufactory.
In November 1927, a ship was launched at Büsum that had been built to withstand the ice and storms of Tierra del Fuego. Eight-centimetre-thick oak planking, frames every 55 centimetres, oversized in every detail. Her commissioning owner, Gunther Plüschow, sailed her to Patagonia and through the channels of Tierra del Fuego. She served him as a floating base camp for his aerial expeditions, which he conducted in his open biplane, the Silberkondor.
The ship outlived him by ninety-four years. In August 2025 it was broken up in Flensburg. The Moorschmied Manufactory acquired one truckload of oak planking — refined remnants that had remained at the museum shipyard. The wood is now held in the workshops of the Manufactory. What Moorschmied makes of it is documented on this site.
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