Finkenwerder (ship)

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The Finkenwerder and Altona are two passenger ferries of HADAG AG . They are designated by HADAG in their ship list as ship type I and operate as port ferries on lines within the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund (HVV) in the port of Hamburg and on the Elbe . Both ships were named after Hamburg districts.

MS Altona
Surname: Finkenwerder Altona
Builder: Heinrich-Grube-Werft Hamburg-Oortkaten
Commissioning: 1989
Home port: Hamburg
Length: 25.45 m 24.31 m
Width: 6.44 m 6.45 m
Draft: 1.9 m
Passengers: 165 185
Drive: Marine diesel engine with 585 kW

Lips nozzle

Speed: 11 knots
Crew: 1

General

The two ships were built in 1988 and 1989 at Heinrich-Grube-Werft ( SSB Spezialschiffbau Oortkaten since 2001 ) on Hamburg-Ochsenwerder . They were named after the Hamburg districts of Finkenwerder and Altona . The Finkenwerder is the first ship to be built; both were put into service in 1989.

They were the first of six newly built one-man ships that were manned by only one skipper and started their service at the lowest point of port traffic in Hamburg. The newbuildings replaced the HADAG type ships built in the 1950s and 1960s .

The Finkenwerder and Altona are each the third HADAG ship to bear this name. From 1936 to 1943 a motor ship called Finkenwärder drove for the first time . The ship sank after a bomb hit during World War II in July 1943 and was lifted and sold in 1947. The second Finkenwerder was the first type III ferry . It entered service in 1952 and was sold in 1975. The first Altona was a steamship built in 1885 , bought by HADAG in 1889 and used until 1918. The second Altona was a type III b ferry with a diesel-electric drive that was launched in 1953 and chartered to the Förde shipping company in Flensburg in 1979 .

Both one-man ships together with the Blankenese and Neuenfelde formed a series. The ferries received different total conversions in the first half of the 2000s, so that two identical pairs were created. The Finkenwerder and Altona were rebuilt in 2000 in order to have as much space as possible for bicycle transport and to adapt the equipment to the standard of the type 2000 ferries .

Technical specifications

The Finkenwerder is 25.45 meters long, 6.44 meters wide and can carry 165 passengers. The Altona can carry up to 185 people with a length of 25.44 meters and a width of 6.45 meters. Both ships have a draft of 1.9 meters.

The ships are equipped with a marine diesel engine with an output of 585 kilowatts. The motor drives a Lips nozzle, which works on the principle of a Kort nozzle, via a gearbox . The Lips nozzle, the use of which led to energy savings of 16.9%, was retrofitted in 2000. With the ship propulsion a speed of 11  knots is reached.

The Finkenwerder and Altona are painted green up to the rubbing strip and painted white above. They do not carry advertising. The ships have a free main and upper deck as well as a closed passenger compartment on the foredeck . Midship is the wheelhouse , behind the boarding area. The Finkenwerder has hydraulically operated ramps on port and starboard for embarking and disembarking ; the Altona does not have these.

Until a renovation in 2000, both ships had a closed passenger compartment on the main deck with a small open deck at the stern . The Altona had a free upper deck in the passenger compartment. The Finkenwerder was the only ship in the series that did not have an upper deck. The passenger compartment was removed during the renovation so that a large open deck was created, over which a free upper deck was installed. The ships were originally painted entirely in white and had a green rubbing strake.

The automatic ramps for entry and exit on the Finkenwerder were retrofitted in 1994. In 1996 both ships were equipped with ticket machines and in 2003 with electronic destination displays . In 2005 an Elna FIS river information system was upgraded. The new navigation system consists of an Elna River Radar 4007 / 9TFT and an Inland ECDIS Radar Pilot 720. It combines the radar image and the turning indicator and sets its own position, that of other vehicles with direction and speed, as well as standing obstacles DGPS - supported on an electronic Elbe map accurate to the meter. The investment costs for the system were around 35,000 euros per ship.

Ferry service

The Finkenwerder runs mainly on the ferry line 64 Finkenwerder - Teufelsbrück . The Altona is the main ship on the Hamburg-Blankenese-Este-Linie (HBEL) from Blankenese via Neuenfelde to Cranz . Both ships are used on these lines because a particularly large number of bicycles have to be transported there.

The Altona sparked the 2001 Nienstedten onto the HBEL. At the ferry docks in Cranz and Neuenfelde there are no pontoons , but stairs and platforms at different heights. This is why the Altona does not have automatic ramps for getting in and out.

Average 2019

On February 9, 2019, the Taiwanese 20,000 TEU container ship Ever Given collided with the Finkenwerder at the Blankenese jetty . The ferry was considerably damaged on the port side by the side wall of the container ship and on the starboard side by the upper edge of the pontoon against which the ferry was pressed. A marine casualty investigation by the Federal Bureau of Maritime Casualty Investigation (BSU) was not carried out (as of June 2019). According to research by the Hamburger Abendblatt, “at the time of the collision at 9.28 am ... the wind speed in Hamburg ... was five to six Beaufort (southwest). However, only two minutes (!) After the collision, a wind driving ban was finally issued by the Cuxhaven district headquarters. The wind strengths had already increased rapidly, and showers apparently aggravated the weather situation. ”According to the Hamburg Port Authority , when the Ever Given cast off at 8.26, there was“ no wind driving ban from the North Sea to and including the Port of Hamburg ”. The damaged Finkenwerder was first brought to the Pella Sietas shipyard. It is unclear whether there will be a lengthy general overhaul or a new building with a draft of only 80 to 100 centimeters so that the Cranzer jetty can be reached at any water level.

supporting documents

Much of the information in this article comes from

  • Olaf Marcinkowski: Today's HADAG ships. In: Hamburger Nahverkehrs-Nachrichten , 52nd year No. 1. Verein Verkehrsamateure und Museumbahn  eV (VVM), Hamburg March 2005, ISSN  0179-3721 , pp. 11, 13.
  • HADAG Seetouristik und Fährdienst (Ed.): Schiffspark 2007. Hamburg June 27, 2007 ( PDF ; 6 kB).

In addition, the following individual references are cited:

  1. ↑ HADAG Seetouristik und Fährdienst (Ed.): Our Fleet ( Memento of August 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved on December 27, 2008.
  2. ↑ HADAG press office (ed.): HADAG has been bringing commuters safely across the Elbe for 115 years . Press release, Hamburg April 10, 2002 ( PDF ( Memento from February 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ); 86 kB).
  3. ^ Arnold Kludas: One Hundred Years of HADAG Ships 1888–1988. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1988, ISBN 3-7822-0446-8 , pp. 60/69/72.
  4. ↑ a b HADAG press office (publisher): The year 2000 was a successful one for HADAG Seetouristik und Fährdienst AG. Press release, Hamburg April 20, 2001, p. 3 ( PDF ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ); 50 kB).
  5. ↑ Photo of the Finkenwerder in March 1989.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Elbdampfer-Hamburg.de , as of December 11, 2007, accessed on January 17, 2009.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.elbdampfer-hamburg.de  
  6. ↑ Photo of the Altona in May 2000.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Elbdampfer-Hamburg.de , June 5, 2008, accessed on October 6, 2008.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.elbdampfer-hamburg.de  
  7. ↑ HADAG press office (ed.): A positive development in passenger numbers in port ferry and commuter traffic in 2004. Press release, Hamburg January 14, 2005, p. 4 ( PDF ( Memento from May 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ); 238 kB).
  8. ↑ HADAG press office (ed.): The new Elbe map-based radar system - HADAG invests in even more safety in shipping. Press release, Hamburg January 13, 2003 ( PDF ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ); 15 kB).
  9. ↑ https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/hamburg/Blankenese-Frachter-rammt-Faehre-auf-der-Elbe,schiffskollision212.html
  10. ^ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: BSU: No proceedings due to ferry collision . In: Daily port report of April 23, 2019, p. 2
  11. ↑ https://www.bsu-bund.de/DE/Aktuelles/laufendeUntersuchungen/laufendeUntersuchungen_node.html
  12. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/harburg/article216427131/Cranz-hat-keine-Faehrverbindungen-mehr.html
  13. ↑ https://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/article216420709/Ever-Given-Containerschiff-Hadag-Faehre-Finkenwerder-Blankenese-Pontons.html