Boppard (ship)

Boppard

The Boppard at the Boppard pier

Ship data flag  Netherlands other ship names Graaf van Bylant IV (until 2004) Ostarrichi (until 2001) Ship type Merchant ship home port Tolkamer Owner Rederij WA Witjes Beheer BV Shipyard Linz shipyard Launch 1996 takeover 1996

Ship dimensions and crew length 50.00 m ( Lüa ) width 10.50 m Draft Max. 1.30 m

Machine system machine 2 × Scania Vabis diesel engines, each 310 kW Machine performance 620 kW (843 hp) propeller 2 × fixed propellers 1 × bow thruster

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers Max. 400

Others Registration numbers ENI 2325629

The Boppard is a day trip ship operated by the Dutch shipping company Graaf van Bylant BV, which has been in service on the Middle Rhine between Mainz and Koblenz in the Cologne-Düsseldorf charter since 2004 .

history

The Ostarrichi in Krems an der Donau

The ship was built in 1996 by the Linz shipyard in Austria for the Ardagger shipping company on the Danube and, on the occasion of Austria's thousand-year existence, was named Ostarrichi as it was first mentioned in a document . Between 1996 and 2001, the owner used the champagne-colored excursion ship in a liner service on the Danube between Linz and Krems or Vienna . As a result of insufficient capacity utilization, the shipowner sold the ship in 2001 for economic reasons to the Dutch Redirij Witjes in Tolkamer (NL). To transfer the ship, the steering position and other superstructures had to be dismantled, as this was necessary to pass under the low bridges of the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal . The new owner renamed the Ostarrichi in Graaf van Bylant IV to. The ship was then anchored on the Rhine near Lobith in the municipality of Rijnwaarden from 2001 and 2004 without verifiable missions . On May 26, 2004, the shipping company signed a seven-year charter contract with the Cologne-Düsseldorf Deutsche Rheinschiffahrt AG, which needed replacements for the two older ships Berlin and Wappen von Mainz in scheduled service on the Middle Rhine route , which were no longer economically viable . The ship was repainted white and renamed Boppard on the occasion of the new operational area .

Equipment and technology

The Boppard is a two-deck passenger ship with a saloon on the closed main deck. The usable area of the ship is around 360 m², the ceiling height is 2.20 m. With normal seating, there is space for 33 passengers on the front main deck 220 and on the rear main deck with a bar. The entire main deck is equipped with air conditioning. The open deck is designed for up to 200 people. The maximum passenger capacity is limited to 400 passengers.

The ship is powered by two 310 kW diesel engines from Scania-Vabis via two propellers, and the Boppard also has a bow thruster .

literature

• Georg Fischbach: The ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer 1826-2004 , self-published, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-00-016046-9

Web links

The Boppard near Leutesdorf

Commons : Boppard (Schiff)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Page about Boppard on the Köln-Düsseldorfer website , accessed on August 9, 2020
• Page about the Boppard on www.debinnenvaart.nl (Dutch) , accessed on October 22, 2010

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Georg Fischbach: The ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer 1826-2004 , self-published, Cologne 2004, p. 929
2. ↑ Boppard seating plan on the Cologne-Düsseldorfer website ( Memento from January 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 47 kB)