Berkane (ship)
 The Berkane in Almería, January 2015
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The Berkane was a ferry of the Moroccan shipping company Comarit , which was commissioned in 1976 as Napoléon for the French Société nationale maritime Corse Méditerranée (SNCM). The ship remained in service until May 2012 and was scrapped in Turkey in 2015 .
history
The Napoléon was built under construction number 146 near Dubigeon-Normandie in Nantes and launched on November 4, 1975. After delivery to the SNCM on June 4, 1976, the ship was put into service on June 21 on the route from Marseille to Toulon , Corsica and Tunis .
On September 10, 1977, the Napoléon collided in the port of Marseille with the cargo ship Tenes flying the Algerian flag and was slightly damaged. Otherwise, the remaining service life of the ship under SNCM ran without major incidents.
On June 5, 2002, the Napoléon went under the new name Berkane to the Moroccan ferry company Comarit, which from then on used it on the route from Nador to Almería . After almost two years in service for Comarit, the ship was converted from April to June 2004 by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg . It then returned to regular service.
From April 2008 the Berkane was in service on the route from Nador to Sète . In February 2011 she brought refugees from Libya to Genoa . For the same purpose, she was then also used from March 1st to March 6th for a single trip from Tangier to Tripoli .
In May 2012, which was Berkane in Almería launched after Comarit had ceased operations and was dissolved in the same month. After three years of berthing, the ship arrived in Aliağa , Turkey, on February 18, 2015 , where it was scrapped.
Web links
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- the ship on ferry-site.dk (English)