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Passenger ferry pushed aground in thunderstorm

In the evening of July 30, 2017, the "Hansestadt Stralsund" with 84 passengers on board was caught by the gusts of a thunderstorm off Hiddensee. She was pushed 50 meters far from the fairway and drifted aground at the narrowest point of the Hiddensee fairway. The lifeboat "Nausikaa" of the DGzRS station Vitte refloated the vessel and towed to Neuendorf upon Hiddensee for inspections.

Passenger ship disabled and adrift in 6-7 Beaufort wind

On Apr 14, 2014, at 5 p.m. the "Hansestadt Stralsund" radioed Mayday after both engines had failed. The ship was disabled in winds of 6-7 Beaufort between the northern Approach of the Strela Sound and the southern tip of the Island Hiddensee and was drifting towards the islet Heuwiese. On board were 12 passengers and a crew of three. The MRCC Bremen alerted the DGzRS-station Stralsund, from where the lifeboat "Hertha Jeep" was dispatched. First on scene was the customs boat "Bad Zwischenahn" which was near Parow and took on board the passengers. Then the lifeboat took the passenger ship in tow with its 320 hp and pulled it into the port of Stralsund. German report with photos: http://www.seenotretter.de/presse/pressemitteilungen-im-detail/article/doppelter-einsatz-fuer-freiwillige-seenotretter-bei-stuermischen-winden-auf-der-ostsee.html

Lifeboat and helicopter dispatched after woman collapsed off Vitte

On Apr 27, 2013, the lifeboat "Nausikaa" of the DGzRS-Station Vitte upon Hiddensee was called after a woman had collapsed aboard the "Gellen" on the Vitter Bodden west of Rügen island and was in urgent need of medical help. An emergency doctor was taken aboard the "Nausikaa" and transferred onto the passenger ship. After the 46 year old woman was treated with first aid the woman could stay on the "Gellen" until it was back in Vitte where a helicopter was already waiting and took her to hospital.