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The Delphin is a cruise ship that was originally designed, built and put into service as a ferry in the mid-1970s .
history
The ship was built as a ferry under construction number 1212 by Oy Wärtsilä Ab in Turku . The keel was laid on October 1, 1973, the launch in October 1974. The completion took place on January 15, 1975. The ship came under way as Belorussiya . The ship was then rebuilt twice on a larger scale. During the first renovation, in early 1986, the ferry was converted into a cruise ship. The second renovation took place at the end of 1993. In the same year, the ship was also renamed Kazakhstan II .
Since 1996 the ship has been sailing under the name Delphin . In December 2011, Mauritius-based company Vishal Cruises Pvt Ltd. bought of the Indian investor Pradeep Agrawal the ship. It has been in use for the Hamburg tour operator Passat Kreuzfahrten since the end of March 2012. In the future, the ship should be used on the Indian market for the long term. From January to August 2015, the chartered US Navy ship and put it in the near Rijeka , Croatia situated Viktor Lenac shipyard as a hotel ship one.
From June 2016 etstur chartered the ship and marketed it on the Turkish market. Since November 2016, the ship has again been at the Viktor Lenac shipyard; According to a report from November 2018, the early scrapping now seems "inevitable". At the end of 2017 it was announced that the Argentine shipping company Alteza Cruises would use the ship under a charter contract that ran until April 30, 2019, but this did not materialize.
The Delphin has four sister ships : Gruziya (today used as Salamis Filoxenia for Salamis Cruises), Kareliya (in Hong Kong as a casino ship under the name Starry Metropolis ), Kazakhstan ( scrapped in Alang in 2011 ) and the Azerbaidzhan (whereabouts unsure).
Technical data and equipment
The Delphin is powered by two eighteen- cylinder four - stroke diesel engines of the type SEMT-Pielstick 18PC2-2V. The engines, which Wärtsilä built under license, deliver 6,625 kW each at a nominal speed of 520 rpm . They act via gears on two controllable pitch propellers and enable the ship to travel at speeds of up to 21 knots . The ship has a bow thruster .
Four generators are available for the power supply on board , one with an apparent power of 2043 kVA and three with an apparent power of 1140 kVA each, as well as an emergency generator with an apparent power of 435 kVA.
The hull of the ship is reinforced with ice ( ice class E1).
Trivia
The last episode of the crime series Einsatz in Hamburg with the title Murder on Board plays mainly on the "Delphin".
The ARD television film The Long Wave Behind the Kiel from 2011 is set on this ship.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o DNV GL : Technical and administrative data of the "Delphin". Retrieved July 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Publications. Retrieved February 28, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c d MS-Delphin.info ( Memento from March 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ MS Delphin goes onto the Indian market . In: Azure . September 6, 2014. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
- ↑ MS Delphin was chartered out while Passat Cruises went into bankruptcy. (No longer available online.) December 20, 2014, archived from the original on December 20, 2014 ; Retrieved December 20, 2014 .
- ↑ MS Delphin: Etstur is chartering the ship for summer 2016. May 16, 2016, accessed on December 12, 2017 .
- ↑ a b MS DELPHIN: The end of a cruise legend - the imminent scrapping seems inevitable . In: Seereisenportal . November 26, 2018. Retrieved July 26, 2019.
- ↑ MS Delphin is back on the road - Alteza Cruises. November 23, 2017. Retrieved July 25, 2019 .