Berlin (ship, 1980)
 The Berlin on leaving Tallinn
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The Berlin is a cruise ship used by the German tour operator FTI Group , which became known as the four-star-plus cruise ship of the Peter Deilmann shipping company and as part of the German television series Das Traumschiff .
history
The ship was built under construction number 163 at Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in Kiel . The keel was laid on September 4, 1979, the launch on January 12, 1980. The completion took place on June 27, 1980. Then the Berlin was delivered to the shipping company Peter Deilmann and used under the German flag for worldwide cruises . From 1982 to 1985 the ship sailed at times as Princess Masuhri under the flag of Singapore.
At the end of 1986 it was rebuilt at the Nobiskrug shipyard in Rendsburg. The ship was lengthened by 16.8 meters from 122.5 to 139.3 meters. The conversion increased the ship's capacity from 330 passengers in 150 cabins to 420 passengers in 210 cabins. From 1986 to 1998 Berlin was Das Traumschiff in the ZDF television series.
At the end of 2004, the ship's service for the Peter Deilmann shipping company ended. The ship was first in Genoa launched and sold after three months Aufliegezeit to the British cruise operators Saga Cruises. Saga Cruises chartered the ship for one season in 2005 to the Russian operator Metropolis Tur (Метрополис Тур), who used the ship as the Orange Melody under the flag of the Bahamas for cruises around Europe.
After a conversion, in which the capacity of the ship was reduced from 420 passengers to 352 by converting several double cabins to single cabins, the ship sailed as the Spirit of Adventure . In August 2011, the German tour operator FTI Group bought the ship and marketed it through its subsidiary FTI Cruises from May 2012 under the name FTI Berlin in Germany. From March 2014, the ship was back in service under the original name Berlin .
After the FTI Group announced that it would discontinue parts of its business activities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic , including the tour operator FTI Cruises, the ship is offered for sale.
Incidents
In 2007 the Spirit of Adventure got into the cyclone gamede with around 250 passengers on board off Madagascar .
On January 12, 2011, the ship was attacked by pirates in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and Zanzibar , but was able to escape.
On June 14, 2018, during an inspection in Dublin, damage was found to a suspension on one of the lifeboats . The ship was then not allowed to continue its voyage, which meant that it could not be in Bremerhaven as planned for the passenger change on June 17 . The passengers were therefore disembarked in Dublin on June 17th and flown to Bremen , the new passengers to Dublin on June 18th.
Technical data and equipment
The ship of two driven twelve-cylinder - four stroke - diesel engines of MaK Maschinenbau (Type: 12 M 453 AK), each with 3,530 kW power . The motors act via reduction gears on the shaft system with two controllable pitch propellers . The ship reaches a speed of 18 knots . The ship has a bow thruster .
A generator with 1138 kVA apparent power , four generators each with 660 kVA apparent power and an auxiliary generator with 120 kVA apparent power are available for the power supply.
The ship has two restaurants and four bars. It is equipped with an outdoor swimming pool and offers guests a sauna and gym.
photos
Berlin in the colors of the Deilmann shipping company
As Spirit of Adventure in Ísafjörður , Iceland
As FTI Berlin after casting off in Bremerhaven
Berlin in the Canale della Giudecca in Venice
Berlin in the light of the midnight sun in Honningsvåg , Norway (June 2016)
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See also
Web links
- Official page of the MS Berlin on the website of FTI Cruises
- MS Berlin on Cruisemapper.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Berlin. DNV GL, accessed on August 11, 2016 .
- ↑ FTI Cruises brings the MS Berlin back to the German market ( Memento from May 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Ships and Cruises, August 26, 2011.
- ^ Franz Neumeier: "FTI Berlin": Return of a Dream Ship , T-Online, July 25, 2012 (accessed November 12, 2013).
- ↑ The flagship of FTI Cruises is returning to its old roots: In future, FTI Berlin will be called MS Berlin , as it used to be , Der Kreuzfahrttester, February 10, 2014.
- ↑ FTI Cruises To Shut Down , Cruise Industry News, July 28, 2020. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
- ↑ 459 'Cruise Ship , Apollo Duck. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
- ^ David Sanderson: Cruise liner stranded in remote port by cyclone , The Times , March 5, 2007.
- ↑ Pirates attack former ZDF dream ship , Spiegel Online , January 13, 2011 (accessed November 8, 2011)
- ↑ Jim Walker: German Cruise Ship M / S Berlin Stuck in Dublin , Walker & O'Neill, June 17, 2018. Accessed April 6, 2020.
- ^ Christian Eckardt: "Berlin" is stuck in Dublin , THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung , June 18, 2018.
- ↑ MS Berlin - Itinerary Schedule, Current Position | CruiseMapper. Retrieved May 6, 2018 (American English).