Dyvi Anglia
_(Kiel_77.841).jpg) The Dyvi Anglia , 1966 in Kiel
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The Dyvi Anglia was the first new building of a pure car carrier today embossing (pure car carrier - PCC).
history
The new type of vehicle was built at the Trosvik Verksted shipyard in Brevik . The drive consisted of a MAN seven-cylinder diesel engine of the type G7V40 / 60 with 1870 hp.
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The Dyvi Anglia came underway for the Norwegian shipping company Jan-Erik Dyvi Skipsrederi and began a five-year charter for the automaker Ford in Dagenham in April 1964 . On July 26, 1968, the ship ran aground in front of the Dyna lighthouse, but suffered only minor damage. In August 1968 the Dyvi Anglia was sold for 993,000 US dollars to the shipping company Sicula Oceanica, which belongs to the Grimaldi Group , but continued to operate under the previous name until 1971. In 1971, the ship was transferred to the Grimaldi Compagnia di Navigazione shipping company from Palermo and initially renamed Anglia . From 1973 the ship went under the name Aquila .
On a voyage from Naples to Dover, the ship came on 7 December 1979 southwest of Sardinia at the position 38.29 ° N; 007.10 ° E on fire and arrived on December 14, 1979 in tow in La Spezia, where it was finally abandoned and scrapped at Cantiere della Palmaria from June 12, 1980.
Loading facilities
As with the Aniara , which was built in 1963 , the Dyvi Anglia was designed as a ro-ro ship, but unlike the Aniara , the Dyvi Anglia no longer had its own loading gear and also showed the shape of the higher deck superstructures with roller decks and the bridge in the front Design of car transporters.
Web links
- Page of the Dyvi Anglia at ski history (Norwegian, English)
- Side of the shipping company NOCC (English)
- Page of Dyvi Anglia at Sjǿhistorie (Norwegian)
- Ship plans Dyvi Anglia in the Royal Museum Greenwich (English)