Kurenas

An interesting feature of kuronos was the so-called “Curonian pennants” ( German Kurenwimpel ) - weathercocks fixed on a single mast. Each village had its own weather vane. These signs were introduced in 1844 by the fishing inspector Ernst Wilhelm Beerbom in order to simplify the enforcement of fishing rules. Gradually, fishermen began to decorate the weathervanes with pennants carved ornaments. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the Curonian weathercocks became a tourist souvenir ^[1] .

Beerb also introduced a boat identification system consisting of three letters (the first letters of the name of the village to which the boat was assigned) and boat numbers. These designations were applied to the sails and sides of the Kurenas ^[1] .

Kurenases disappeared after the Second World War , but at the beginning of the twenty-first century the museums of Klaipeda ( Lithuania ) and Kaliningrad revived these ships. The first was Kurenas, built by the Klaipeda Maritime Museum and launched on July 11, 2001. In accordance with tradition, he received the designation SUD-1 (from Suderspitze, the German name for the village, on the site of which is now located the Maritime Museum) ^[1] .

Kaliningrad Kurenas was built at the Museum of the World Ocean . It was laid down on May 27, 2011 and launched on May 24, 2012. The construction was carried out by specialists of the Pelican shipbuilding company. Kaliningrad Kurenas received the designation MUZ-1 (museum), and its weather vane repeats the silhouette of the Friedrichsburg Gate , where the museum’s historic shipyard is located ^{[1] [2]} .