Ciudad de Seville
 The Ciudad de Sevilla in Malaga, November 2003
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The Ciudad De Sevilla was a ferry operated by the Spanish shipping company Trasmediterránea , which entered service in 1980. The ship remained in service on different routes for the same operator until it was retired in September 2009 and was scrapped in India in 2010 .
history
The Ciudad de Sevilla was built under construction number 141 at Union Naval de Levante in Valencia and was launched on October 18, 1979. After its delivery to the Trasmediterránea on June 28, 1980, the ship began the ferry service between Barcelona and Palma on July 1 .
On October 19, 1980, the Ciudad de Sevilla near Palma suffered a machine failure and ran aground shortly afterwards. The 280 passengers on board were uninjured, but the ship suffered a water ingress and could not be recovered until December 5, 1982. On July 4, 1983, the Ciudad de Sevilla arrived for repairs at its shipyard in Valencia. The ship could not be put back into service until March 17, 1985.
In July 2004, the Ciudad de Sevilla switched to the route from Málaga to Melilla . In the years that followed, the ship was used on various routes, including Almería , Tangier and Nador . In September 2009, was Ciudad de Sevilla finally retired after 29 years of service and in Tarragona launched .
In October 2009, the ship under the shortened name Sevilla left the port of Tarragona to be shipped to India for scrapping. On January 7, 2010, the former Ciudad de Sevilla arrived at a demolition yard in Mumbai .
Web links
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- the ship on ferry-site.dk (English)