Coat of arms of Mainz (ship)

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Mainz coat of arms
The coat of arms of Mainz in motion
The coat of arms of Mainz in motion
Ship data
other ship names
  • Germany (1961–1971)
  • Drachenfels (1971–1985)
Ship type Day trip boat
home port Cologne (last)
Owner Shipyard De Hoop
Shipping company Cologne-Düsseldorfer
Shipyard Cologne shipyard,
Ewald Berninghaus
Build number 779
building-costs 3.5 million DM
Launch March 22, 1961
Commissioning May 20, 1961
Decommissioning September 8, 2010
Removal from the ship register November 2012
Whereabouts scrapped
Ship dimensions and crew
length
90.65 m ( Lüa )
width 15.80 m
Draft Max. 1.58 m
displacement 969  t
Machine system
machine 2 × Deutz SBA12M421, each 735 kW
Machine
performanceTemplate: Infobox ship / maintenance / service format 		1,470 kW (1,999 hp)
propeller 2 × VSP 20 E / 110
Transport capacities
Load capacity 202.5 dw
Permitted number of passengers 2000
Others
Registration
numbers 		* ENI : 04200250

The coat of arms of Mainz was an excursion ship built in 1960/61 by the Cologne-Düsseldorfer Deutsche Rheinschiffahrt AG , which was in service between Mainz and Cologne until October 5, 2004 . In the period that followed, the shipping company kept it as a reserve ship for the active fleet. In order to partially finance a new ship, it was given in payment in September 2010 at the De Hoop shipyard . After no buyer could be found for the ship, it was scrapped in November 2012.

history

After the reconstruction in March 1970 as Germany
Scrapped in Maasbracht in November 2012

The passenger ship was built in 1960 and 1961 by the Cologne shipyard, Ewald Berninghaus in Mülheim harbor under construction number 779 for the Düsseldorf Steamship Company for the Lower and Middle Rhine . The keel was laid on August 15, 1960, the launch on March 22 of the following year. The construction costs amounted to 3.5 million  D-Marks . On May 18, 1961, Ellen Stinnes, the then fifteen-year-old daughter of the chairman of the supervisory board of the company Hugo Stinnes , christened the ship in Düsseldorf with the name Deutschland . Two days later, Germany took over the first scheduled trip in day trip traffic to Mainz for the operating group Cologne-Düsseldorf Rheindampfschiffahrt. It was approved for 3200 passengers when it went into operation, making it the ship with the highest passenger approval on European inland waters . On May 16, 1967, the DGMN and the Preußisch-Rheinische Dampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft merged to form the Cologne-Düsseldorfer Deutsche Rheinschiffahrt AG. The ownership of all ships of the two companies was transferred to the new company.

On February 23, 1968, the Deutschland burned down completely in Cologne's Rheinauhafen . The fire, which was probably triggered by welding work carried out the day before in the kitchen area, completely destroyed the main deck, the upper deck and the open deck. Two tugs pulled the floatable wreck into the Mülheim harbor the following day. Subsequently, the destroyed decks were completely rebuilt in the Cologne shipyard using lightweight construction . The hull was lengthened by 1.60 m, and the ship also received two new diesel engines. The previously used four 312 kW engines were used by the shipyard Christof Ruthof for the river cruise ship Britannia commissioned by the shipping company . The repair and conversion costs were 3.1 million DM. The return to service took place on April 3, 1969. The number of passengers was reduced to 2,700.

Since the Cologne-Düsseldorfer wanted to use the previous name for a newly built cabin ship (later the Alemannia ), they renamed the ship on March 29, 1971 in Drachenfels . On May 11, 1985, the Mayor of Mainz at the time, Jockel Fuchs, renamed it the coat of arms of Mainz at a ceremony . The shipping company used the old ship name for the excursion ship Drachenfels, which was completed in the same year .

After the Cologne-Düsseldorfer started operating a significantly more modern and more economical passenger ship with RheinEnergie for the 2004 season , the Mainz coat of arms was last used on October 5th in scheduled service on a trip from Rüdesheim to Koblenz. In the period that followed, the shipping company kept it as a reserve ship for the active fleet - but it was only used in several years during Advent as a floating Christmas market on the banks of the Rhine in Cologne. In contrast to the active excursion boats in the fleet, their ownership was not transferred to the wholly-owned subsidiary KD Europe S.à rl in Luxembourg in December 2008 . In 2010 it was traded in at the De Hoop shipyard in order to partially finance a new ship and was transferred there on September 8, 2010. Since the Cologne-Düsseldorfer contractually excluded the use on the Middle Rhine , which is interesting for tourists , no buyer was found, so that the coat of arms of Mainz was scrapped in Maasbracht in November 2012 .

Special missions

Floating Christmas Market 2006
  • On June 30, 1974, the farewell party of Federal President Gustav Heinemann took place on the ship . The journey led from Bonn to Andernach and back.
  • From June 9th to July 23rd, 1990, the coat of arms of Mainz was on the Rhine as an exhibition ship to mark the “500 Years of Post” anniversary. She was anchored for days in Duisburg , Düsseldorf, Cologne, Bonn, Koblenz , Wiesbaden-Biebrich , Mainz, Mannheim , Speyer and Kehl . Visitors to the exhibition were able to have their letters stamped with a special stamp of the respective landing location in a post office set up on board . Before it was deployed, the ship had been clad extensively on the side walls with brown and yellow parcels.

Equipment and technology

Departure from Boppard, 2004

The coat of arms of Mainz was a four-deck passenger ship with a usable area of 1300  m² and an average ceiling height of 2.20 m. The bar with 118 seats in the bow of the lower deck was connected to the entrance area with cloakroom in the central nave. Behind it was the engine room to which ten crew rest cabins as well as cooling and supply rooms were connected aft. The two restaurants on the main deck, separated by the entrance hall, had a total of 380 seats. The partially handicapped accessible toilet facilities and the ship's office were set up in the entrance hall. On the upper deck there were also two restaurants with a capacity of 366 guests. The front restaurant was provided with extensive glazing at the bow. Aft , the rear restaurant was followed by a roofed open deck with 30 seats. The sun deck, which is divided by the retractable steering position and other superstructures, could accommodate up to 1,000 passengers. There were five salons in the closed decks of the coat of arms of Mainz . The ship was recently only approved for a maximum of 2000 passengers.

The ship was powered by two 12-cylinder Deutz diesel engines of 735  kW type SBA12M421 via two five -blade Voith-Schneider drives size 20 of type E / 110. The ship was 90.65 m long, 15.80 m wide (9.00 m upper and open deck) and 10.20 m high. The maximum draft was given as 1.58 m.

literature

Web links

Commons : Wappen von Mainz (ship)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Georg Fischbach: The ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer 1826-2004 , p. 710 to 714
  2. ↑ Annual report 2009 according to IFRS of Köln-Düsseldorfer, p. 8 , accessed on November 26, 2010
  3. ^ Image of the funeral journey in the image database of the Federal Archives
  4. ↑ Ship certificate after rebuilding from March 13, 1969