Erling Jarl (ship, 1949)
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The motor ship Erling Jarl was a mail ship that was used by the NFDS shipping company on the Hurtigruten along the west coast of Norway.
history
The Erling Jarl was built in 1949 under hull number 229 by the Italian shipyard Cantieri Naval Riuniti in Ancona and handed over to the shipping company in the same year. The maiden voyage took place on September 5, 1949 and since then the ship has been used on the Hurtigruten without interruption until mid-1980 .
Name and sister ships
The ship was one of four sister ships , the so-called "Italiaskipene" - the "Italienschiffen" - Midnatsol , Vesterålen and Sanct Svithun .
It was the second Hurtigruten ship of that name. The first Erling Jarl was commissioned in 1895.
Incidents
On January 8, 1958, while the ship was at the quay in Bodø , a fire broke out in the cabin wing. Despite immediately initiated rescue and extinguishing measures, 14 people were killed in this accident. After this fire, the fire protection regulations on all Hurtigruten ships were tightened. A memorial on the Bodø quay commemorates the victims.
On August 17, 1972, the ship ran aground in Raftsund ; People were not harmed.
On March 13, 1980 it ran aground again, this time at Solund . It was then towed to a shipyard in Bergen. Considerable damage to the propeller and stern was found in the dry dock, so that repairing the over thirty year old ship was considered uneconomical. It was sold to a new owner who, under the name Balder Earl , operated it as a hotel ship in Trondheim for four years . In January 1985 it was finally sold to Belgium and scrapped there.
Oddities
Due to a lack of foreign currency, it was agreed that the purchase price of the four sister ships ordered at the time could be paid in Klippfisk , the stockfish that is highly valued in Italy . These four sister ships were nicknamed the “Klippfiskskipene” , or stockfish ships.