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Seaside resorts are passenger ships for the transport of people between the seaside resorts on the German East and North Sea coast , to Heligoland or to the East Frisian and North Frisian islands . Some of them are suitable for the high seas, especially in Heligoland traffic, but due to their equipment they are not designed for long journeys. As a rule, they do not have cabins. Most often there are several decks with large salons. In individual cases - except for the island trip to Helgoland - they have a small deck on which individual cars can also be taken.
Ships in Heligoland traffic
On Helgoland, during the tourist season, passengers are usually not moored at a landing stage (exceptions: the catamaran high-speed ferry and the new Helgoland , which are allowed to call at the island's port), but passengers are disembarked by boat . In the pre-season and post-season, there is usually no boat departure.
The coat of arms of Hamburg , built in 1965, was 109.6 m long and 15.0 m wide, although it was not the longest and widest, but the largest German seaside resort ship in terms of volume (4438 GRT). At a top speed of 22 knots, up to 1800 passengers could be carried. The last shipping company was the FRS Förde Reederei Seetouristik . The 2006 season was the last for the coat of arms of Hamburg . On May 31, 2007, FRS sold the ship to a shipping company in the British Virgin Islands . Her new name was Mercator II . After the bankruptcy of the new owner, the former coat of arms of Hamburg was in very poor condition in the Bremerhaven fishing port before it was towed to a Danish scrapping yard , where it was scrapped in 2011.
Selection of further seaside resorts in Heligoland traffic:
- Cobra , 1890 to 1914 and 1920 to 1921
- Naiade , 1894 to 1914
- Roland , 1927 to 1939
- The electrically powered Helgoland (2000 passengers, 2947 GRT) was launched on May 6, 1938, as the largest and last ship built in the Lindenau shipyard in Memel . It was used from July 18 to around August 21, 1939 in Helgoland traffic.
- Hein Godenwind , 1960 to 1969
- Atlantis , 1956 to 1970
- Rüm Hart , 1959 to 1981
- Frisia III , 1960 to 1998
- Seute Deern , 1961 to 2003
- Coat of arms of Hamburg , 1962 to 1964, later Alte Liebe , 1966 to 1981, and Helgoland , 1985 to 1997 and 2000 to 2004
- Helgoland , 1963 to 1965
- Wilhelmshaven , 1963 to 2004
- Roland von Bremen , 1966 to 1984
- Westerland , 1972 to 1973, later Pidder Lyng , 1982 to 2001, as well as Adler Nordica , 2006 and Kloar Kimming , 2007
- Helgoland , 2006 to 2014
- Helgoland , 1972 to 1982 and 1998 to 1999, First Lady , 1983 to 1997, and Atlantis , 2000 to 2015
The current (2017) seaside resorts in the Helgoland service:
- The Heligoland of the shipping company Cassen Eils is 83 m long and 12.8 m wide and can carry 1060 passengers at a maximum speed of 20 knots. She has been serving the Cuxhaven – Helgoland route since 2015.
- The Funny Girl is 68.57 m long and 10 m wide. It carries a maximum of 800 passengers at a speed of 19 knots (3800 HP, 999 GT). In summer she drives from Büsum and in winter from Cuxhaven to Helgoland. Shipping company: Cassen Eils
- The Lady von Büsum , who operates the route Büsum - Helgoland, is 45.7 m long and 8.5 m wide. A maximum of 483 passengers are allowed on board. The speed is 14 knots (1700 hp). Shipping company: Rahder
- The Fair Lady is a sister ship of the Funny Girl . The ship operated as Lady Assa in Poland until 2011 . In January, the shipping company Cassen Eils bought the ship back. The Fair Lady has been sailing from Bremerhaven to Helgoland under the flag of the Cassen Eils shipping company since May 2011. Ex-names of the Fair Lady are Adler Baltica and Lady Assa .
More ships on the North Sea
The seven inhabited East Frisian islands of Borkum, Juist, Norderney, Baltrum, Langeoog, Spiekeroog, Wangerooge all have significant tourist flows, for which they use their own ferries to the mainland, which also make excursions between the islands and other destinations.
- The Spiekeroog II is 47.9 m long and 9 m wide. It can carry up to 700 passengers at a speed of 12.5 knots. Shipping company: Nordseebad Spiekeroog GmbH
- The Harlingerland is 46.4 m long and 9 m wide. It can carry up to 635 people at a speed of 11 knots (BRZ 477, 820 KW). It is mainly used in the Wangerooge service of DB AG from Harlesiel, but also makes trips to Spiekeroog from here. Shipping company: DB AutoZug
The North Frisian islands Amrum and Föhr as well as Pellworm and the Halligen also use passenger ships to the mainland and to connect the islands with each other, sometimes together.
Ships on the Baltic Sea
On the German Baltic coast resorts are on ships for a trips to the lake offered to other trips along the coast and travel between the islands of Rügen , Hiddensee and Usedom and between the mainland and the islands.
Examples:
- Kronprinz , is the oldest surviving seaside resort ship (built in 1910, 500 passengers, length between the perpendiculars: 31.78 m, draft: 1.83 m). Previously trips from Rostock on the Unterwarnow , to Kühlungsborn and Graal-Müritz . The hull was transferred to Dresden-Laubegast a few years ago, and reconstruction is planned.
- Baltica , Warnemünde , trips to Kühlungsborn, Graal-Müritz and Fischland / Darß .
See also
literature
- Claus Rothe: Deutsche Seebäderschiffe 1830–1939 (= Library of Ship Types . Volume 4 ). transpress VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-344-00393-3 .
- Peter Bussler: A bath trip from Cuxhaven to Helgoland in the 19th century. Former bath ships between Hamburg and Heligoland . In: Men from the Morgenstern Heimatbund at the mouth of the Elbe and Weser. V. (Ed.): Niederdeutsches Heimatblatt . No. 825 . Nordsee-Zeitung GmbH, Bremerhaven September 2018, p. 1–2 ( digital version [PDF; 4.1 MB ; accessed on June 20, 2019]).
Web links
- Extensive photo documentation and ship histories on the island ferries website
Individual evidence
- ^ Electric ship Helgoland. In: Graf von Spee Chapter website. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017 ; accessed on June 20, 2019 .