Bremen (ship, 1990)
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The Bremen is a cruise ship owned by the Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten shipping company . It was built in 1990 as Frontier Spirit in Japan, joined the fleet in 1993 and is used for expedition cruises.
The ship was sold with effect from spring 2021. The future operator will be the Swiss shipping company Scylla , which until then had specialized in river travel . Reports that the ship had been sold for scrapping were denied by Scylla.
history
The passenger ship was built in 1990 as hull number 1182 at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works in Kobe . The client of the ship launched on June 20, 1990 was Frontier Cruises (Japan) Ltd. in Nassau, behind which Frontier Cruises Ltd. in New York. Hapag-Lloyd initially held a 12.5 percent stake in the ship.
After the handover on October 29, 1990, the ship was put into service under the name Frontier Spirit . From the beginning of 1991 some Antarctic cruises were undertaken for Seaquest Cruises under the management of Salen Lindblad. On August 18, 1992, the Frontier Spirit went out of charter, Seaquest Cruises ceased operations. The ship was converted from October 10 to November 18, 1993 at the Nobiskrug shipyard in Rendsburg for operation at Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten. On October 14, 1993, the management was transferred to Hanseatic Cruises, the ship was renamed in Bremen and transferred to the company JG Maritime in Nassau. From 1993 to 1996 the ship was operated in charter by Hapag-Lloyd, in April 1996 Hapag-Lloyd acquired the ship completely and transferred it to the subsidiary Hapag-Lloyd Bahamas Ltd. broadcast in Nassau.
On a cruise through the Antarctic , passengers and crew of an inflatable boat discovered a new island in the eternal ice and a new channel in the area of the Melchior Islands on February 2, 2003 . They were called “ Bremeninsel ” or “Bremenkanal” and both were entered on the cards.
The owner Hapag-Lloyd Cruises sold the ship with effect from spring 2021 to the Swiss shipping company Scylla , which had previously specialized in river cruises . The date was coordinated with the planned commissioning of the third expedition ship, the Hanseatic Spirit . Since a Corona- compliant conversion is not worthwhile for the remaining time , it was decided in July 2020 to temporarily shut down the ship.
Incidents
2001 accident
On February 22, 2001, the Bremen was flooded by a 35 meter high monster wave on the voyage from southern Argentina to Rio de Janeiro , which hit the ship with at least 1000 tons of water. The ship was doing heavy damage to it, so among other things, was bullet-proof glass on the bridge of the water masses from the frame pushed inward. Due to the ingress of salt water, all electronic devices on the bridge and as a result also the two main engines and the entire power supply failed. The ship drifted with 40 degree flip side about 30 minutes to maneuver in heavy seas before the team managed a maintenance disassembled auxiliary diesel on the heavily rolling ship to assemble and start to take control with his help over the Bremen recover. Four days later, the ship was towed into the port of Buenos Aires as a damaged ship .
Rescue of a crew member in 2009
A crew member of the Bremen had seriously injured his right hand in an automatically closing, watertight bulkhead. The Bremen was at this point about 815 km south of Invercargill . Two helicopters therefore flew from Southland in New Zealand despite the bad weather to take him to the hospital for a necessary operation. The man was taken on board one of the helicopters by means of a winch from the deck of the Bremen in heavy seas , as the helicopter could not land on the deck due to the stormy seas. Since the range of the helicopters is only around 1000 km, they first flew to Campbell Island on the way back , where they were refueled. The injured person was then flown to Southland Hospital , from where he was transferred to Christchurch the next day .
Polar bear attack
In July 2018, a polar bear was killed during a trip to the Arctic on Svalbard after it attacked a crew member.
See also
Web links
- Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten website ( Memento from January 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Bremen - IMO number: 8907424. DNV GL , accessed on February 7, 2020 (English).
- ^ M / S Frontier Spirit. Facta om Fartyg, accessed August 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Christopher Leipert: Scrapping the MS Bremen? The ship is said to have been sold for this purpose. In: Cruise Updates. August 1, 2020, accessed on August 5, 2020 (with update from August 4, 2020).
- ^ Federal Register , Volume 55, Issues 197-203, Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, Oct. 11, 1990, pp. 41601.
- ↑ a b Karsten Kunibert Krüger-Kopiske: The ships of Hapag-Lloyd: Drawings and résumés , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, 2015.
- ↑ Christopher Wright: Of Penguins and Polar Bears: A History of Cold Water Cruising , The History Press, 2020.
- ↑ Tagesschau on December 8, 2004 ( Memento from July 22, 2010 on WebCite )
- ↑ MS Bremen will no longer operate cruises for Hapag Lloyd Cruises - shutdown until delivery . In: Ships and Cruises . July 18, 2020. Accessed August 6, 2020.
- ^ The cruise ship "Bremen" leaves Hapag-Lloyd Cruises . In: world . 15th January 2019.
- ↑ Matthias Schulz: Catastrophes - "I felt God's breath" , Der Spiegel, 51/2001, December 17, 2001, accessed October 14, 2017.
- ↑ A huge wave floods the "Bremen". Hamburger Abendblatt , August 28, 2004, accessed on August 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Man recovers after chopper rescue. Television New Zealand , January 28, 2009, accessed August 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Debbie Porteous: Campbell Island rescue one of longest. In: odt.co.nz. Otago Daily Times , January 27, 2009, accessed June 7, 2016 .
- ↑ "The polar bear home is not a damn tourist spot" , Spiegel, July 30, 2018.