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forsvundet, og Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseet var noget nær det
sidste sted i Esbjerg, hvor en skibstømrer kunne udøve sit
håndværk på et fuldtids professionelt niveau. For Svend
Erik Rasmussen kom tiden på Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseet til
at vare noget længere, end oprindeligt planlagt - men som
han selv siger: ”Det dejlige ved at være på et museum er, at
man ikke skal skynde sig at have det færdigt til en bestemt
tid. Der er tid til, at man kan sætte sig ordentligt ind i det
og få lavet det ordentligt. Bådene skal jo gerne stå her også
om hundrede år. Derfor prøver jeg også at forklare børnene,
som kommer her, at de gerne må røre ved bådene - men de
må altså ikke hoppe i dem og ødelægge dem!”
Noter
1. Else-Marie Poulsen foretog tre interview med Svend
Erik Rasmussen i oktober-november 2006 (OP 877).
Citaterne i artiklen og de mange oplysninger om Svend
Erik Rasmussens liv er hentet fra disse interview. Øvrige
oplysninger om museets fartøjer er hentet i Fiskeri- og
Søfartsmuseets arkiv (OP 542 - OP 576) samt i jubilæums-
skriftet Sjæk’len 20, udgivet af Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseet
1987.
2. FOS 1981-38 (drivkvase De tre brødre).
3. FOS 1981-2 (havbåd fra Houvig).
4. FOS 1981-3 (havpram Johanne).
5. FOS 1981-1 (evert Ane Cathrine).
6. FOS 1981-9 (fiskerbåd fra Nykirke), FOS 1981-16 (fis-
kerbåd fra Sydvesthjørne) og FOS 1981-31 (togangsbåd fra
Højer).
7. FOS 2001-82 (klitmøllerjolle) og FOS 2001-86 (hirts-
halspram).
8. FOS 1981-29 (kutter S 49 Dana).
9. FOS 1989-171 (E 718 Hellas).
10. FOS 1981-30 (kystbåden T 117 Eron).
11. FOS 1990-199 (kystbåden A 168 Hanne Lene).
12. FOS 1981-47 (jolle med dam fra Gjøl).
13. FOS 1993-54 (pram fra Kvols).
14. FOS 1981-46 (jolle fra Revsøre).
15. FOS 2518-D-47 (jolle fra Kalvehave, Frede).
16. FOS 1981-21 (pram fra Hjerting).
Summary
The Fisheries and Maritime Museum holds a large collec-
tion of smaller wooden craft from Danish waters. The col-
lection contains more than forty vessels from a wide variety
of coastal localities, ranging from dinghies and barges to
larger fishing vessels, one of which is sailing as the museum
cutter E 1 Claus Sørensen, and a range of special vessels, in-
cluding a salvage boat, a lifeboat and the uniqueWadden Sea
barge Ane Cathrine, built in Nordby, Fanø, in 1887. Skilled
labour has been employed at the museum in order to secure
optimal maintenance and restoration of the historic vessels
since the opening of the Fisheries and Maritime Museum in
1968. The boat builder Carl Nielsen held the position during
the first approximately twenty years, and from 1987 until
the end of 2006, the ship’s carpenter Svend Erik Rasmussen
was employed as the museum vessel’s caretaker. In 2007 the
position was taken over by the ship’s carpenter Gert Lykke
Jensen.
Svend Erik Rasmussen served his apprenticeship at Brdr.
Lauridsens Shipyard at Esbjerg harbour in the 1960s, dur-
ing a time when the Esbjerg yards were still regularly pro-
ducing wooden fishing vessels for the North Sea fisheries.
He later worked in different areas of carpentry until he ap-
plied for the position of ship’s carpenter at the museum in
1987. During his years at Tarphagevej, he has restored and
maintained the museum vessels, and he played an important
part in building up the open air exhibition in the early 1990s.
He has actively participated in giving museum guests an op-
portunity to see skilled craftsmen in action at the open air
museum shipyard, and he has been responsible for main-
taining the museum cutter E 1 Claus Sørensen, restoring it
so that it can fulfil its role as the last sailing boat of its type
in Esbjerg.
Before retiring inDecember 2006, SvendErikRasmussen
talked extensively with historian Else-Marie Poulsen about
his life as a ship’s carpenter and his career at the museum,
and the article is based on these interviews as well as on
information from the Fisheries and Maritime Museum’s ar-
chives.