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61. Kromann, 1934, bd. II, p. 312 ff.
62. Skibsskøde 1904, sælger Chr. Sørensen, Nordby til Pe-
der Chr. Pedersen, Esbjerg, kopi i OP 212.
63. Jf. beretning fra Jens Leo Thomsen (f. 1913), dec.
1980. Han sejlede som mandskab i Ane Cathrine i 1932.
Sidesværdene blev vist taget af o. 1935-36. Klyverbommen
var på dette tidspunkt taget af, men der sejledes stadig med
klyver. Køjerne i lukafet forude bestod af ca. 15 cm kanter
på kistebænkene, med ca. 15 cm tykt lag rughalm, kun plejl-
tærsket så meget, at kærnerne lige var fjernet og stråene var
lagt på langs på kistebænken.
64. Jf. Teodor Hansen 1996, p. 57.
65. Iflg. Jens Leo Thomsen, Skive 1980, blev sidesværdene
taget af i 1935-36, OP 212.
66. Jf. foredrag af A. Møller 20/9 1972, OP 212.
67. Se ill. af bøjede og lige træer til forskellige dele til ski-
be, Douglas Phillips-Birt: Der bau von booten im wandel
der zeiten, 1979, p. 82.
68. Den danske træbestand var på et historisk lavpunkt
omkring 1800, men skibsbyggeriet fortsatte i nogle egne.
De danske flådeege blev plantet allerede fra slutningen af
1700-tallet, men ikke mindst tabet af den danske flåde i
1807 var medvirkende til, at der blev plantet egetræer man-
ge steder i landet, så man på sigt kunne udbygge flåden (in-
den de voksede til var man dog gået over til at bygge skibe
i andre materialer som jern og stål). Tabet af Norge bidrog
tilsvarende til manglende træforsyninger. I dag står omtrent
90.000 flådeege omkring i landet, jf. Christian Raun: Flåde-
egene, Chatoken 3, Dansk Militærhistorisk Selskab, 2007,
p. 36-37.
69. Kromann, bd. II, 1934, p. 352-53.
70. Ill. af svedekiste, Phillips-Birt 1979, p. 167.
71. Jf. beretning af Teodor Hansen.
72. Både kiler og pinde var almindeligt anvendt til at fæstne
naglerne på. Naglerne og kilerne var af eg, fyr eller andre
sorter, jf. Tom Rasmussen: Om trenagler i dansk skipsbyg-
ging, Fartøysvern, nr. 9 Desember 2005, p. 37.
73. Jf. brev fra S.H. Sørensen til A. Hjorth Rasmussen 5/8
1967, OP 212.
Summary
The Ane Cathrine, the jewel of the collection of vessels at
the Fisheries and Maritime Museum in Esbjerg, has been
extensively restored over the past two years. Restoration of
the vessel commenced when the National Heritage Agency
judged the ship to be of unique national importance. The
Agency, the Lauritzen Foundation and the Esbjerg Foun-
dation funded the work to a total of DKK 1.2 million. In
return, the Heritage Agency required the establishment of
permanent measures to preserve the ship in accordance with
the recommendations of the Danish Ship Preservation Trust.
This article discusses this special type of ship, the Wadden
Sea barge, and its history. The restoration work performed
by the two shipbuilders at the museum is also described.
The Wadden Sea vessel the Ane Cathrine, built in 1887,
was acquired by the museum in 1967-1968. The ship is one
of the few Wadden Sea barges preserved in Denmark and
the only one built in the age of sailing ships before 1900.
The barge is also the last surviving vessel of the many built
at Søren Abrahamsen’s wharf on Fanø.
When the barge was purchased, it had been modernised
– equipped with marine engine, screw and wheelhouse in
1919 – but the original hull and frame construction was pre-
served. In 1968-72 the vessel was restored to its original
shape of 1900-1920.
The Wadden Sea barge has a characteristic flat bottom
and no keel. It was specialised for navigation in shallow wa-
ter in the Wadden Sea and adjoining rivers and streams. The
barge was already known in medieval Germany, and use of
the vessel spread from the lower Elbe area to the Danish
Wadden Sea. In Denmark the barges were registered on the
islands of Rømø and Mandø, but the majority were regis-
tered on the island of Fanø, which was also the only place
outside Germany where this type of ship was built. The
Wadden Sea barge’s main period was the late eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries. It was eventually superseded by other
forms of transportation – primarily the railways. The barges
were used for coastal transport, and the smaller vessels were
used to transport goods between the landing wharves and
the bigger ships which were not able to reach the coast. The