Crown Seaways
 The Crown Seaways in Copenhagen
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The Crown Seaways is a ferry of the Danish shipping company Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab which was put into service in 1994 as the Crown of Scandinavia . It has been in service on the route from Copenhagen to Oslo since 2006 .
history
The Crown Seaways was commissioned in September 1989 under the name Frans Kockum by the shipping company Euroway and laid on April 28, 1990 under the construction number 373 at Brodosplit in Split . The ship was launched on April 6, 1992. A planned takeover of the ferry, now renamed Thomas Mann , by Euroway could not take place due to financial problems. The following year the shipping company ceased operations.
It was not until May 1994 that the Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab (DFDS) found a buyer for the ship, which was now called the Crown of Scandinavia . After further renovation work and several test drives, the Crown of Scandinavia completed its maiden voyage from Copenhagen via Helsingborg to Oslo on July 26, 1994 under the banner of Scandinavian Seaways, a subsidiary of DFDS.
In June and July 2000, the ship made a series of short cruises from Copenhagen to the Oresund Bridge . From then on it was managed by DFDS itself. In October 2006 the route of the Crown of Scandinavia changed slightly, as the stopover in Helsingborg was now omitted. The following month, on a return voyage from Oslo, the ship was initially unable to call at Copenhagen as planned due to a storm, but had to anchor in Landskrona . The arrival in Copenhagen was finally several hours late.
In January 2013 the Crown of Scandinavia was renamed Crown Seaways . She has three sister ships : the Amorella , the Isabelle and the Gabriella , which are used by the Viking Line .
Web links
- Crown Seaways website
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- the ship on ferry-site.dk (English)