De Amsterdam

De Amsterdam

As Clara Schumann in Dresden

Ship data flag  Germany other ship names Lale Anderson Clara Schumann / (Viking Schumann) Ship type Cabin passenger ship home port Oberwesel Shipping company Best-BikeTours Shipyard De Biesbosch, Dordrecht Build number 842 building-costs 15.6 million DM Keel laying August 1990 Launch February 16, 1991 takeover May 11, 1991 Commissioning May 15, 1991

Ship dimensions and crew length 94.80 m ( Lüa ) width 11.00 m Draft Max. 1.27 m displacement 963  t   crew 26th

Machine system machine 3 × Deutz AM816 Machine performance 1,200 kW (1,632 hp) propeller 3 × Schottel SPJ 80 II 1 × Schottel SPJ 57 ( bow thruster )

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 112 (56 cabins) 600 for day trips

Others Registration numbers ENI 05113920

The De Amsterdam is a cabin passenger ship built in 1990/91 as Clara Schumann for Viking River Cruises in Basel . Like all of the company's ships, it was registered in Oberwesel. The ship was in service from 1991 to 2000 for the Cologne-Düsseldorfer . The ship has been sailing for Best-BikeTours since 2017. She is the structurally identical sister ship of Theodor Fontane .

history

Clara Schumann at the Magdeburg pier

After the fall of the Wall , the Cologne-Düsseldorfer conducted a test run from Hamburg to Dresden from June 2 to 7, 1990 in order to open up the Elbe for future river cruises with the St. Caspar ship from Tours Incomming GmbH in Düsseldorf . After the knowledge gained, the shipping company, in cooperation with the propulsion manufacturer Schottel and the shipyard De Biesbosch, planned a cabin passenger ship which, thanks to the installation of ballast water tanks, should be usable even when the water level on the Elbe is low . After model tests that were carried out in the research institute for inland shipping in Duisburg , an order was placed on July 24, 1990 for two identical ships with 64 passenger cabins. The keel of the ship manufactured under construction number 842 was laid in August, the launch on February 16, 1991. From April 18 to April 21, the completed shell was transferred from Amsterdam to Hamburg with Condock III , a self-propelled dock ship , where the final equipment took place with the help of the pit shipyard . From May 1 to May 7, 1991, the ship drove to Dresden on its own, where it was christened on May 11 by Countess Giulia Gori-Mazzoleni in the name of her great-grandmother Clara Schumann . During the subsequent four-hour maiden voyage , the shipyard was handed over to Elbe-Kreuzfahrten GmbH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Köln-Düsseldorfer. From May 15, 1991 she was deployed in the plan service between Magdeburg and Dresden. The ownership of Clara Schumann was transferred on August 28, 1997 to KD Deutsche Flusskreuzfahrten GmbH, which started using the ship from 1999 on the extended route from Lauenburg / Elbe to Ústí nad Labem . When Premicon AG became the main shareholder of Köln-Düsseldorfer on March 9, 2000 , Viking River Cruises took over the company's river cruise business, including all ships used there. This did not change the area in which Clara Schumann was deployed . From 2010 to the beginning of 2011 the ship was completely modernized. It was then marketed by the organizer under the name Viking Schumann , although it was not renamed.

The ship was sold in 2017. It was subsequently marketed by Best-BikeTours, initially under the name Lale Andersen and since 2018 under the name De Amsterdam .

Equipment and technology

The Clara Schumann is a three-deck cabin ship of the 4-star category with 48 double cabins of 11 m² and 8 deluxe cabins with 15 m² of floor space. All cabins are air-conditioned and each equipped with a shower, telephone and TV set. Separable double beds were set up in the deluxe cabins. Behind the bow thruster room and kitchen is the on-board restaurant on the main deck, which can only be entered from the viewing salon above. In addition to the reception, an on-board shop was set up in the entrance area of ​​the upper deck. The sun deck amidships behind the wheelhouse was furnished with deck chairs and partially covered seating areas. All decks can be reached via stair lifts, even for disabled passengers.

The ship is propelled by three eight-cylinder diesel engines of the type Deutz AM816 à 400  kW via three Schottel pump jets of the type SPJ 80 II . The bow thruster of the type SPJ 57 , also produced by Schottel, has a 220 kW electric drive. The ship is 94.80 m long, 11.00 m wide. The draft is given as 1 m. By filling four trim tanks, which are located in the double floor at the bow and stern of the main deck, the draft can be increased to a maximum of 1.27 m for low bridges.

literature

• Georg Fischbach: The ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer 1826-2004. Self-published, Marienhausen 2004, ISBN 3-00-016046-9 .
• Stephan Nuding: 175 years of Cologne-Düsseldorf Rhine Shipping Company. A historical representation in pictures and text. Schardt, Oldenburg 2001, ISBN 3-89841-035-8 .

Web links

Commons : Clara Schumann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Georg Fischbach: The ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer 1826-2004. Self-published, Cologne 2004, p. 844 ff.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Description of the ship on the owner's website  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Clara Schumann (05113920). Binnevaart.eu, accessed on July 27, 2020 . 
4. ↑ MS Lale Andersen. Best-BikeTours, accessed on July 27, 2020 . 
5. ↑ MS De Amsterdam. Best-BikeTours, accessed on July 27, 2020 .