Dronning Ingrid (ship, 1951)

**Dronning Ingrid**
	The Dronning Ingrid in 1957
Ship data
flag	Denmark
other ship names	Sjælland (1979–2002) ; Selandia (2002–2004) ; Princess Selandia (2005–2015)
Ship type	ferry
home port	Korsør
Shipping company	Danske Statsbaner
Shipyard	Helsingør Skibsværft , Helsingør
Build number	302
Order	December 27, 1948
Launch	November 24, 1950
takeover	April 17, 1951
Decommissioning	March 1983
Whereabouts	Scrapped in Denmark in 2015
Ship dimensions and crew
length	110.4 m ( Lüa )
width	17.7 m
Draft	Max. 4 m
measurement	3,046 GRT
Machine system
machine	2 × B&W 650-VF-90 diesel engines
Machine ; performance	3,245 kW (4,412 hp)
Top ; speed	17 kn (31 km / h)
propeller	2 ×
Transport capacities
running track meters	256 m
Permitted number of passengers	1,500
Vehicle capacity	3 tracks with a total of 258.16 m ; and 110 cars on the car deck
Others
Registration ; numbers	IMO no. 5093959

The Dronning Ingrid was a Danske Statsbaner ferry that entered service in 1951. The ship, renamed Sjælland in 1979 , remained in service until 1983 and then served as a floating museum and restaurant, most recently since 2005 under the name Princess Selandia . In 2015 the 64 year old ferry was scrapped in Frederikshavn .

history

The Dronning Ingrid was ordered from Helsingør Skibsværft in Helsingør on December 27, 1948 and launched on November 24, 1950 under hull number 302. After the takeover by Danske Statsbaner on April 17, 1951, the ship began ferry service between its home port of Korsør and Nyborg .

In the following years of service, Dronning Ingrid changed the route several times. From 1963 she was regularly in service between Rødby and Puttgarden .

Sjælland

In 1979 the ship was named Sjælland . After 1982 several months in Halskov Sogn rested was there from January 1983, including as cargo ferry on the route from Gedser to Warnemuende used. In March 1983 the Sjælland finally left the service of the Danske Statsbaner.

After a year-long berth in Halskov Sogn, the ship was chartered out to Danmarks Radio as a floating broadcasting studio in November 1984 . The first on-board program was broadcast on March 14, 1985. After the charter expired in January 1986, the ferry lay up again, this time in the port of Helsingør, where it had been built 35 years earlier.

In the same year the Sjælland was converted into a floating museum and restaurant until 1988. In May 1988 she was towed to Copenhagen . In August 1995 it went to the ferry operator Scandlines under the same name .

Selandia

In April 2002 the ship was sold to Eagle Chartering Ltd. Gibraltar & Per Lind based in Gibraltar . There the ship was named Selandia . It was transferred to Tilbury in May 2002 , where it was also anchored as a museum and restaurant until 2004.

Princess Selandia

The Princess Selandia in Barrow-in-Furness, February 2007

After two more years in operation, the ship passed into the ownership of a private person in Barrow-in-Furness in June 2004 , where it was unused for a year. In 2005 the ferry was renamed Princess Selandia after renovations and used as a restaurant and disco. After it changed hands again in June 2012, it went to a demolition yard in Frederikshavn on July 14, 2015, where it arrived on July 22. The 64-year-old ferry was scrapped there.

Web links

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