Cunard Ambassador

Cunard Ambassador

The Cunard Ambassador in Key West, September 1974

Ship data flag  United Kingdom (1972–1975) Denmark (1975–1980) Panama (1980–1983) Qatar (1983–1984)       other ship names Linda Clausen (1975–1980) Procyon (1980–1983) Raslan (1983–1984) Ship type Passenger ship (until 1975) Animal transporter (1975–1984) home port Southampton (1972–1975) Copenhagen (1975–1980) Panama (1980–1983) Doha (1983–1984) Owner Cunard Line (1972-1975) C. Clausen D / SA / S (1975-1980) Lembu Shipping Corp. (1980–1983) Qatar Transport & Marine Services (1983–1984) Shipyard Machinefabriek en Scheepswerf van P. Smit jr., Rotterdam Build number 666 Launch March 16, 1972 takeover October 21, 1972 Whereabouts Scrapped in 1984

Ship dimensions and crew length 148.10 / 127.90 m ( Lüa ) width 21.90 m Draft Max. 6.83 m measurement 14,155 GRT (from 1975: 5633 GRT)

Machine system machine 4 × Stork- Werkspoor diesel engine Machine performance 20,142 kW (27,385 hp) Top speed 22.0 kn (41 km / h) propeller 2 × fixed propellers

Transport capacities Load capacity as a cruise ship: 2274 tdw as an animal transporter: 5399 tdw Permitted number of passengers 831

Others Classifications Lloyd's Register Registration numbers IMO 7208144

The Cunard Ambassador was a passenger ship that was converted into an animal transporter .

history

Launch of the Cunard Ambassador

The ship was built in 1972 under the hull number 666 at Machinefabriek en Scheepswerf van P. Smit Jr. in Rotterdam . The launch took place on March 16, 1972, the Cunard Ambassador was delivered on October 21 of the same year.

The ship was originally the second in a series of eight ships ordered by Overseas National Airways . However, this had taken over financially with the project, whereupon the shipping company Cunard took over two of the construction contracts. The sister ship of the Ambassador was the Cunard Adventurer which was completed in 1971 at the Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij shipyard .

The two ships were used for weekly cruises from San Juan (Puerto Rico) to the other ports in the Caribbean , from New York to Bermuda , and in summer also from Vancouver to Alaska . The ships turned out to be a financial failure, which is why the Cunard Adventurer was sold in 1977. The Cunard Ambassador suffered a fire on September 12, 1974 while on a positioning trip without passengers. Although there were no deaths or injuries on board, the ship that was then brought to Key West was declared a constructive total loss , a total economic loss.

The heavily damaged, but only two-year-old ship was acquired in March 1975 by the Copenhagen shipping company C. Clausen D / SA / S, who had it converted into a freighter for the transport of slaughter sheep at Öresundsvarvet in Landskrona from the end of April 1975 and in Linda Clausen renamed. In 1980 the ship was sold to Lembu Shipping Corporation in Panama and renamed Procyon . In 1983 it was sold on to Qatar Transport & Marine Services in Doha , renamed Raslan and burned down again on July 3, 1983 on a trip from Jeddah to Singapore in the Indian Ocean . The Raslan was initially launched in Singapore, sold to Taiwan for demolition the following year and ended its last voyage on September 7, 1984 in Kaohsiung .

literature

• Schönknecht, Rolf; Laue, Uwe: ocean freighters of world shipping . Volume 1. transpress Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-344-00182-5 (library of ship types).

Web links

• The Cunard Ambassador on Fakta om Fartyg (Swedish)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Lloyds Register of Shipping (Ed.): Lloyds Register of Shipping . Appendix 1979-80. Lloyds Register of Shipping, London 1979.