Adler Express
 Adler Express, 2019
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The Adler-Express is a German passenger ship operated by the Adler-Schiff shipping company in Westerland / Sylt .
description
The ship was built in 1993 with the hull number B87 at the Swedish shipyard Marinteknik Verkstads AB in Öregrund for Adler ships. The keel was laid on September 14, 1992, the launch in May 1993. The ship was completed in June 1993.
That for driven coastal trade approved ship of two of MTU Friedrichshafen built twelve-cylinder four-stroke - marine diesel engines (12 V 396) with a capacity of each 1,260 kW that are not on propeller , but a water jet propulsion interact with two water jet high-pressure nozzles. The ship, which, according to the shipping company, is the fastest German single-hull passenger ship, thus reaches a maximum speed of 33 knots (kn), however, due to speed restrictions stipulated in the ordinance on navigating the federal waterways in national parks in the area of the North Sea , with operated at a maximum speed of 24 kn. The ship also has two bow thrusters with an output of 13 kW each. Two generators with an apparent power of 87.5 kVA each are available for the power supply on board .
The Adler-Express has stabilizers . Since it has a comparatively shallow draft and is not moved by a propeller but by a water jet propulsion system, it reaches a high cruising speed even in shallow fairways.
In 2018 it received an olive-brown painting of the hull as well as laterally along the upper window front and oblique stripes, which also include the chimneys. The hull was later painted black.
The ship is mainly used in the North Frisian Wadden Sea , where it operates between the Nordstrand peninsula , the Hallig Hooge and the islands of Amrum and Sylt . In 2018 there will be service on Mondays instead of Hooge Langeneß , and on Fridays the island Pellworm will also be served . Occasionally the Hallig Gröde is also called . The Adler-Express is not a certified national park partner, but may be used in regular services in the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park .
Accidents
On June 4, 2014, the Adler Express, with 234 passengers, rammed the jetty in Wittdün on Amrum at six to seven knots (around 11 to 13 km / h) after a failure of the control system . 27 passengers were injured, two of them life-threatening, and were taken to hospitals on the mainland by rescue workers in seven rescue helicopters . The bow of the Adler Express was dented in the accident. The damage was repaired in the Husum shipyard .
On July 11, 2015, the ship with 239 passengers ran aground after casting off Hallig Langeness. The Hauke Haien also ran aground while trying to salvage the Adler Express . The passengers were brought to the nearby Adler IV as well as the WDR ferry Hilligenlei and the excursion boat Rungholt in a rubber dinghy and the rescue cruiser Ernst Meier-Hedde . As a result of the accident, the Adler Express was out of action for 14 days while it was being repaired at the Husum shipyard. The property damage amounted to over 50,000 euros.
Web links
- Adler-Express on Adler-Schiffe.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the binding way ( Memento of March 29, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) , Der Hallig-Bote, 2010 edition, accessed on May 26, 2019.
- ↑ §3 Ordinance on navigating federal waterways in national parks in the area of the North Sea (NPNordSBefV) (accessed on July 28, 2010)
- ↑ Timetable July 16, 2018 , accessed on July 14, 2018
- ↑ Press releases ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Adler-Schiff.
- ↑ "Adler Express": How 239 vacationers stranded on a sandbank. Husumer Nachrichten, July 13, 2015, accessed on September 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Average damage greater than expected. Husumer Zeitung, July 16, 2015, accessed on September 4, 2017 .