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The Adler Cat is a catamaran from the Adler- Schiff shipping company . The ship will operate between Cuxhaven and Sylt or between Sylt, Amrum and Helgoland in 2019 .
history
The ship was built under hull number 514 at the Oma Baatbyggeri shipyard in Stord , Norway , for Finnmark Fylkesrederi og Ruteselskap in Hammerfest . The keel was laid in May 1998, the completion in May 1999. The ship sailed as Renøy under the flag of Norway with home port Hammerfest.
In 2003 the ship came to the French Connex Group with the sale of the shipping company, in 2006 through a company merger to Veolia Transport and finally to Boreal Transport Norge in 2011. The ship was used as a fast ferry on various routes in the north of Norway.
At the beginning of December 2017 the ship was sold to a subsidiary of the shipping company Adler-Schiff.
business
Adler ships mainly use the ship for excursions to Heligoland . In 2018, Mondays to Thursdays, it ran from the North Frisian islands of Föhr , Amrum and Sylt , and on Fridays from the East Frisian island of Norderney .
From April to June 2018, the Adler Cat also operated from Havneby on the Danish island of Rømø to Helgoland at times . In addition, so-called wind farm trips were offered from Havneby and List on Sylt .
From June 30, 2018, the ship operated on Saturdays and Sundays between Cuxhaven and Hörnum on Sylt . Every two weeks on Sundays it drove from Hörnum as a wind farm trip. From mid-July, Dagebüll was also served on Tuesdays .
In the summer of 2019, the ship operated on the Cuxhaven – Hörnum route from Friday to Sunday, and connected Hörnum with Wittdün on Amrum and Helgoland from Monday to Thursday . On Fridays in July and August, wind farm trips from Hörnum were again offered.
In summer 2020, the ship started an almost identical timetable as in the previous year. Due to the corona restrictions , however, the operation did not begin until July 3.
The ship is being managed by North Frisian Offshore in Husum .
Technical data and equipment
The drive of the ship by four MTU - Diesel engines (type: 12V2000M70) each with 788 kW power , the two propeller effect. The ship can reach a maximum of 36.5 kn .
Until 2017, the ship was able to transport three cars and general cargo or palletized cargo in an open space in the aft section. The area was accessible via a stern ramp . In addition, the ship had a crane placed on the upper deck that could serve the stern area.
After the sale to the shipping company Adler-Schiff, the ship was converted. The stern area was also redesigned so that the ship can no longer carry vehicles. The passenger area was enlarged and the passenger capacity increased from 182 to 224 people.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Renøy , HSC-Norway, Norsk Hurtigbåthistorie 1971–2011. Retrieved April 6, 2018.
- ↑ Adler ships end winter break , Der Insel-Bote , March 24, 2018. Accessed April 6, 2018.
- ^ Day trips from Norderney to Helgoland , Ostfriesen-Zeitung , March 29, 2018. Accessed April 6, 2018.
- ↑ New ferry connection between Sylt and Cuxhaven , NDR, June 7, 2018, accessed on June 8, 2018.
- ↑ Cuxhaven – Sylt: "Adler Cat" started successfully , Cuxhavener Nachrichten , July 2nd, 2018. Retrieved on July 3rd, 2018.
- ↑ Wind farm trips ( Memento from July 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ All 'eagles' back in action soon - restart into the 2020 season , Amrum News (online), June 15, 2020, accessed on July 13, 2020
- ↑ a b Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: Adler fleet is sailing with a new catamaran , THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung , December 11, 2017.
- ↑ MS Adler Cat , Adler Ships. Retrieved April 6, 2018.