Ancona (ship, 1966)

**Ancona**
	The Ancona to Split, July 2010
Ship data
flag	Panama
other ship names	Svea (1966–1969) ; Hispania (1969–1972) ; Saga (1972–1978) ; Knossos (1978–1998) ; Captain Zaman II (1998–2003)
Ship type	ferry
home port	Panama City
Shipping company	Blue Line International
Shipyard	Lindholmens Varv , Gothenburg
Build number	1096
Launch	March 3, 1966
takeover	October 27, 1966
Commissioning	November 10, 1966
Decommissioning	September 30, 2010
Whereabouts	Wrecked in India in 2011
Ship dimensions and crew
length	141.2 m ( Lüa )
width	20.9 m
Draft	Max. 5.34 m
measurement	12,394 GT
Machine system
machine	4 × Pielstick Lindholmen 6PC2-2L400 diesel engines
Machine ; performance	7,415 kW (10,082 hp)
Top ; speed	18 kn (33 km / h)
propeller	2 ×
Transport capacities
running track meters	650 m
Permitted number of passengers	810
Vehicle capacity	300 cars
Others
Registration ; numbers	IMO no. 6608098

The Ancona was a ferry of the Panama- based Blue Line International , which entered service as Svea in 1966 . The ship remained in service until October 2010 and was scrapped in India in 2011 .

history

The Svea was built under construction number 1096 in Lindholmens Varv in Gothenburg and was launched on March 3, 1966. After the takeover by the Rederi Ab Svea on October 27, 1966, the ship took on the ferry service on November 10 on the route from Gothenburg to Kingston upon Hull . Sister ships were the Saga, also commissioned in 1966, and the Patricia, commissioned in 1967 .

In January 1969, the Svea was converted by Burmeister & Wain in Copenhagen in order to be used as Hispania for Svenska Lloyd in the liner service between Southampton and Bilbao from April 1969 . In November 1970 the ship switched to the shorter route from Gothenburg to Tilbury . In 1972 it was renamed Saga .

In March 1978 the saga went to the Greek Minoan Lines , which from then on used it as Knossos between Piraeus and Heraklion . The ship changed its route several times in the following years before it was sold as Captain Zaman II to the Ferro Ferryboat & RoRo Transport Company in 1998 to be deployed from Istanbul to Odessa .

From June to September 2001 and from June to October 2002 the Moroccan shipping company Comanav chartered the ship for the service from Nador to Sète . In January 2003 the Captain Zaman II went to Blue Line International under the name Ancona , to be used between Ancona and Split from April 2003 .

On September 30, 2020, the ship completed its last crossing from Ancona to Split after 44 years of service. In October it was sold to an Indian demolition yard. On December 16, 2010, the Ancona arrived in Alang , where it was scrapped from January 12, 2011.

Web links

Commons : IMO 6608098 - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

^ Micke Asklander: M / S SVEA. In: Facta om Fartyg. Retrieved February 17, 2020 .
↑ Raoul Fiebig, Frank Heine, Frank Lose: The great passenger ships of the world: The great passenger ships of the world . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft , Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7822-1245-8 , page 285.

[1] Micke Asklander: M / S SVEA. In: Facta om Fartyg. Retrieved February 17, 2020 .

[2] Raoul Fiebig, Frank Heine, Frank Lose: The great passenger ships of the world: The great passenger ships of the world . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft , Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7822-1245-8 , page 285.