Concrete ship "Ulrich Finsterwalder" on Lake Dąbie

To see this unique element of Lake Dąbie, you need to reach the area of ​​Inoujście, where you can see a ninety-meter long hull of a concrete ship.

In June 1942, a special committee was created in the Third Reich to manage the construction of this type of ship. It was called "Sonderausschuss Betonschiffbau" (literally: "Special Department - Concrete Vessel Construction"). Engineer Ulrich Finsterwalder was appointed as its head and the vessel was named after him.

Ships were built out of concrete for a very prosaic reason – there was not enough steel during the war. One of them is Szczecin's "Ulrich Finsterwalder" with a length of 90 metres, a width of 15 metres, 6.5 metres of draft and a capacity of 2947 GRT. She made her first voyage in August 1944. She was a tanker transporting synthetic gasoline from the synthetic gasoline factory in Police to Świnoujście. She was bombed on 20 March 1945 by Soviet air force. After the war, the wreck was towed to Inoujście and sunk. At the turn 1970s and 1980s, at the initiative of a divers’ association at the A. Warski shipyard, the wreck was raised and transported to Lake Dąbie, where it was to serve as a swimming pool. However, for technical reasons, the implementation of the idea was interrupted and the ship was transported to Inoujście again, where it ran aground and still can be seen today.