Caribou (ship, 1986)

Caribou

The Caribou in North Sydney, August 2005

Ship data flag  Canada other ship names Caribo (2011) Ship type ferry home port St. John's Shipping company Marine Atlantic Shipyard Versatile Davie Shipyard Lauzon , Quebec Build number 705 Launch October 25, 1984 takeover April 1986 Commissioning May 12, 1986 Decommissioning November 26, 2010 Whereabouts Scrapped in India in 2011

Ship dimensions and crew length 179.03 m ( Lüa ) width 25.63 m Draft Max. 6.6 m measurement 27,123 GRT

Machine system machine 4 × MaK-8M552 diesel engines Machine performance 20,595 kW (28,001 hp) Top speed 22 kn (41 km / h) propeller 2 ×

Transport capacities running track meters 1,092 m Permitted number of passengers 1,342 Vehicle capacity 350 cars

Others Registration numbers IMO no. 8301876

The Caribou was a 1986 commissioned ferry of the Canadian shipping company Marine Atlantic . The on the way from North Sydney to Port aux Basques ship used remained until November 2010 trip and was 2011 at the Indian Alang scrapped.

history

The Caribou was built under hull number 705 in the Versatile Davie Shipyard Lauzon in Québec and was launched on October 25, 1984. After the takeover by Marine Atlantic in April 1986, the ship began the ferry service from North Sydney to Port aux Basques on May 12th. The Caribou got its name in memory of a passenger ship of the same name , which was put into service in 1925 and sunk in 1942 in Cabotstrasse by a German submarine. Caribou is the North American name for reindeer .

The Caribou stayed on the same route for 24 years. After a final crossing on 26 November 2010, the ship was retired and in North Sydney launched . She and her sister ship Joseph and Clara Smallwood , three years her junior , were replaced by the Highlanders and the Blue Puttees .

After almost a year of berth, the Caribou went to a demolition yard in Alang, India, in August 2011 under the shortened transfer name Caribo , where it arrived on October 12 for scrapping. Her sister ship Joseph and Clara Smallwood arrived at the same time as the demolition.

Web links

Commons : IMO 8301876  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

• the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
• the ship on hhvferry.com (English)
• the ship on marineatlanticjourney.ca (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rogert G. Thorne: A Cherished Past: Newfoundland's front row seat to history . Gerard Thorne, St. John's 2015, ISBN 978-0-9695828-2-3 , 114.
2. ↑ Jeremy Fraser: SPECIAL REPORT: Marine Atlantic celebrates 120 years of ferry service between Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. In: Cape Breton Post. August 30, 2018, accessed April 23, 2019 .