Germany (ship, 1972)
 The Germany in July 1981
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The Deutschland was a combined RoRo and rail ferry operated by the Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) and the German Ferry Company Ostsee (DFO), which was used on the Vogelfluglinie from 1972 to 1997 .
Construction and delivery
In December 1969, the DB decided to replace the used since 1953. Germany and gave the Howaldtswerke- German shipyard (HDW) in Kiel the design contract for a new ferry. The construction contract went to the Nobiskrug shipyard in May 1970, however , as HDW was busy with other contracts. The keel was laid on June 24, 1971 and on January 9, 1972 the new building, christened by Dr. Mildred Scheel , from the stack .
After the successful shipyard test drive, the new DB flagship was presented to the public on June 10, 1972 in Hamburg and on June 17, 1972 in Kiel , and then put into service on June 22, 1972 in Puttgarden .
commitment
On June 23, 1972 the regular service between the ferry station Puttgarden and Rødby Færge was started.
For many passengers, the crossing was a welcome occasion for dining and duty-free shopping . The range was expanded in February 1976 by the installation of a supermarket and the originally three restaurants with a total of 463 seats were adapted to the modern service concept of the newer Karl Carstens in June 1986 at the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft .
With the founding of the Deutsche Fährgesellschaft Ostsee mbH (DFO) , Germany , along with Karl Carstens and Theodor Heuss , was taken over by them on July 1, 1993. The first visible sign was the change of the chimney emblems and on February 17, 1994, the change of flag from the federal service flag to the federal flag .
After taking stock, the DFO decided not to invest in these ferries any more. They wanted to face the future with new concepts and new ships. Together with DSB Rederi , four modern double-ended ferries were put into service in 1997 , the Prins Richard , Prinsesse Benedektiven , Schleswig-Holstein and a new Germany .
On the evening of September 30, 1997, the old Germany began her last voyage from Rødby Færge to Puttgarden and was then decommissioned. In its 25 years of service, it had crossed the Fehmarnbelt almost 128,000 times, transporting around 1 million railway wagons, 520,000 trucks, 4.1 million cars and around 28.5 million passengers.
Whereabouts
In early October 1997, the Germany in Warnemünde launched . On March 26, 1998, the El Salam Shipping Company in Suez acquired the ship and on March 30, 1998, the ship began its voyage to Port Said under the Panamanian flag and the new name El Salam 97 . In 1998 there was a machine failure, whereupon another sale to the Snow Drop Company in Kingstown took place in 1999. The former ferry called Salam arrived in Alang on March 18, 1999 and was scrapped there in the same year.
literature
- Gert Uwe Detlefsen: Shipping in the picture Baltic ferry ships , Hauschild Verlag Bremen 1997, ISBN 978-3-89757-372-7
- Günther Meier: The Vogelfluglinie and its ships . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Herford 1988, ISBN 3-7822-0441-7
- Carsten Watsack: Puttgarden-Rødby The History of the Vogelfluglinie , Verlag Deutsche Fährschiffpublikationen, Edition Ostseeland 2000, ISBN 3-8311-0357-7
Web links
- Information about the Vogelfluglinie (accessed on September 9, 2010)
- Entry at Faktaomfartyg (Swedish)