The Danmark (IMO number 6815093) was a Danish combined RoRo and rail ferry that was used in the trajectory on the Baltic Sea between Denmark and Germany from 1968 to 1997.
She was the second Danish trajectory of this name , after the Danmark launched in 1921 , which, with a brief interruption during and after the Second World War, operated on the Baltic Sea between Denmark and Germany from 1922 to 1968.
The ship was on 10 August 1967 with the hull number 384 on the Elsinore Skibsværft in Elsinore for the Danish State Railways (DSB) set to Kiel and ran there on 14 February 1968 by the stack . The ship was 144.5 m long and 17.7 m wide and had a draft of 6.0 m . The Danmark was measured with 6352 GRT and 2692 NRT and had a deadweight of 1762 tons . Its three tracks had a total usable length of 341.97 m and offered space for 30 freight cars . There were also up to 310 cars , 160 on the upper and 150 on the lower deck. The passenger capacity was 1500 people. Two Burmeister & Wain - Diesel engines of the type 10U45 HU together with 7,460 kW enabled via two screws at a top speed of 18 knots ; the service speed was 16 knots.
career
The ship was delivered on May 31, 1968 and put into service on June 7, 1968 by DSB Reederei, the ferry operator of DSB, on the 19 km long so-called bird flight line between Rødbyhavn and Puttgarden . Danmark sailed there until 1997. Her home port was Rødbyhavn.
The only notable major incident in her career occurred on April 8, 1995. The ship had engine breakdown and because of the strong storm they did not dare to enter Rødby. Instead, the ferry had to be diverted to Nyborg on the Great Belt in a nine-hour drive . ( Korsør could not be approached because the water level was too high .) There the 33 cars parked on the upper deck were put ashore by a mobile crane . Only with the resulting weight reduction did the ship float high enough that the vehicles could extend from the lower deck in the normal way over the ramp.
When a new generation of four large double-ended ferries was put into service in 1997 , this meant the end for Denmark . It made its last trip on December 18, 1997 and was then hung up in Nakskov . In 1999 it was sold by Scandlines GmbH , the Danish-German ferry company consolidated in 1998, to the company "Fornæs" in Grenaa to be scrapped . In August 2000 the company sold the hull and the machinery for scrapping to a company in Santander (Spain), and Danmark was then towed to Santander by the tug Stine A of the Jens Alfastsen towing company and demolished there.
