The Citadel combined car-bulk transporter was the first new build in a series of six of this type of ship , which has since disappeared from the market , as well as the very first ship of this type of ship.
The Swedish shipping company MS Citadel commissioned the construction of this combined ship type from the Oresundvarvet shipyard in Landskrona in 1965 . Starting in 1966, the company built six of these diesel-powered ships for regular trans-Atlantic freight traffic. The first to be taken over by her shipping company on July 14, 1966, was the Citadel as hull number 203 . Three subsequent sister ships were taken over by the Ugland shipping company, which is also based in Sweden . While all sister ships were built later were canceled again as early as the 1980s, the last ride of the later repeatedly changed baptized ended Citadel on 13 May 1992 under the name I.Van in Indian Alang .
Loading facilities
The Citadel was equipped with six alternating long and short holds, which were closed with pontoon lids, the long holds remained empty during the ore voyage. The cargo holds can be converted with six additional car decks each to accommodate up to 1400 vehicles. The car decks were stowed either on land, on deck, or in the hold during the bulk cargo journey. The long holds had loading gates on both sides for handling vehicles. Two portal cranes with a load capacity of 10 tons each were available to handle the pontoon lids.
Sister ships
The five other ships in this series were the Johan U. , the Andreas U. , the Axel U. , the Sonette and the Daphne .
