Flower class (2003)
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The Flower class is a six-unit class of ships owned by the Danish shipping company Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab . The Ro-Pax ships belong to the “RoRo 3900” ship type from the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft .
history
The ships were built between 2003 and 2006 by the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft. Initially three ships were ordered, later another ship of the type was ordered three times from the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft. The ships were built for the DFDS Tor Line, which they use in their “Eurobridge” and “Anglobridge” services, which primarily connected Gothenburg and Brevik with Ghent and Gothenburg and Brevik, but also Esbjerg with Immingham and Tilbury . The construction cost was over DKK 2 billion .
In the course of the restructuring of Det Forenede Dampskibs-Selskab in 2010, the DFDS Tor Line was merged with the existing DFDS Seaways. As a result, the ships were renamed, but remained in the same shipping area between Scandinavia and Belgium or Great Britain .
description
The ships have four decks for rolling cargo. There are 376 gauge meters on the tank ceiling , 1,046 on the main deck, 1,137 on the upper deck and 1,272 on the weather deck . The lower deck is 5.20, the main deck 6.20 or 6.80 and the upper deck 4.70 meters high. The weather deck is also 4.70 meters high where it is built over. From the main deck, two height-adjustable car decks can be reached via a height-adjustable ramp, which can provide a total of 3,772 m² of space with 2,660 lane meters.
The loading decks are connected to one another by ramps. The ramps are 4 meters wide. The decks can be locked against each other at the ramps so that in particular no water can run into the decks below from the weather deck.
The ships are loaded and unloaded via an 18.10 meter wide and 17 meter long stern ramp , via which the main deck can be reached. In addition, two 4.30 × 4.00 meter side gates are available, one each on the port and starboard side , from which the car decks can be reached directly. The upper deck can also be reached via a landside bridge up to eight meters wide.
Above the weather deck from about the middle of the ships to the aft, there are the deck superstructures consisting of three decks . Here are u. a. the cabins for the ship's crew , mess rooms, lounges and leisure rooms, the galley and utility rooms and the bridge as well as twelve individual cabins for passengers.
Three ships in the series, the Tor Ficaria , the Tor Freesia and the Tor Begonia , were lengthened by 30 meters in 2009 at the MWB Motorenwerke Bremerhaven shipyard . The Primula Seaways followed in 2016 as the fourth ship at the Lloyd shipyard . By lengthening the ships, the carrying capacity increased to 14,330 t. The lengthened ships now provide 4,650 gauge meters. All ships in the series were retrofitted with gas scrubbers for exhaust gas aftertreatment between 2011 and 2014 .
The width of the ships was determined by the locks in Immingham, which the ships must be able to pass.
Technical specifications
The drive of the vessels is carried out by a two-stroke -Neunzylinder- diesel engine type MAN BW 9L60 MC-C with 20,070 kW power , which to a controllable pitch propeller acts. The ships can thus reach a speed of 22.5 knots . The engines for the ships were manufactured under license from Hyundai Heavy Industries in Ulsan , South Korea .
Four MAN-B&W diesel engines of the type 7L21 / 31, each with 1,720 kW output, are available for the power supply and drive four generators with 2,040 kVA apparent power each . A diesel generator with an output of 450 kW is installed as an emergency generator.
The ships are equipped with a total of four transverse thruster systems with controllable pitch propellers, two in the bow with 1,100 kW each and two in the stern with 880 kW each.
The hull of the ships is reinforced with ice ( ice class 1D). The ships have a range of around 8,300 nautical miles .
Ships
| Flower class | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building name | Build number | IMO number | Order keel laying, launch, delivery |
Later names and whereabouts |
| Gate Magnolia | 721 | 9259496 | December 19, 2000 February 10, 2003 May 23, 2003 October 17, 2003 |
2011: Magnolia Seaways |
| Petunia Gate | 722 | 9259501 | December 19, 2000 May 26, 2003 September 26, 2003 January 5, 2004 |
2013: Petunia Seaways |
| Primula Gate | 723 | 9259513 | December 19, 2000 September 29, 2003 January 23, 2004 May 3, 2004 |
2011: Primula Seaways |
| Gate Begonia | 724 | 9262089 | December 10, 2001 January 26, 2004 May 14, 2004 September 3, 2004 |
2012: Begonia Seaways |
| Gate Freesia | 725 | 9274848 | April 18, 2002 May 17, 2004 October 1, 2004 January 7, 2004 |
2012: Freesia Seaways |
| Gate Ficaria | 730 | 9320568 | April 16, 2004 October 31, 2005 February 24, 2006 June 23, 2006 |
2011: Ficaria Seaways |
The ships sail under the Danish flag, home port is Copenhagen .
Others
The Tor Magnolia, the first ship in the series, was named “Ship Of The Year” by Hansa - International Maritime Journal in 2004 and Shippax received the “Shippax Award 2004” as a special Ro-Ro ship.
literature
- TOR MAGNOLIA: consolidating ro-ro expertise at Flensburger. In: Significant Ships of 2003. A Publication of The Royal Institution of Naval Architects. , The Royal Institution of Naval Architects , 2004, pp. 116–117. ISBN 0903055953 .
- Pierre Adolfsson: The Tor Begonia Round Trip. In: Shipgaz No. 1/09, pp. 58-77, January 30, 2009, ISSN 2000-169X ( online ).
Web links
- RoRo 3900 , data sheet from the Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft (PDF file, 1.8 MB)
- Ro-ro freighter TOR MAGNOLIA , Wärtsilä Encyclopedia of Marine Technology
Remarks
- ↑ In some sources the ships are also described with six single and six double cabins, so that 18 passengers can be accommodated.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Freight ferries - RoRo 3900 , Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft. Retrieved August 16, 2017.
- ↑ FSG delivers new building , Hamburger Abendblatt , June 22, 2006. Retrieved on August 16, 2017.
- ↑ DFDS flower power ( Memento of August 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), WorldCargo News Online, September 2003.
- ↑ a b c Ro-ro shipping activity on a roll ( Memento from August 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), WorldCargo News Online, April 2007 (PDF, 109 kB).
- ↑ a b DFDS’s fourth flower named , The Motorship, May 21, 2004. Retrieved August 16, 2017.
- ↑ a b Ultimate roro newbuilding from Flensburg , The Motorship, June 1, 2003. Accessed August 16, 2017.
- ↑ Christian Eckardt: 30 meter long midship section delivered , THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung , July 4, 2016.
- ↑ Christian Eckardt: Lloyd Werft is extending the DFDS RoRo ferry by 30 meters this summer. Vereinigung Europäische Schifffahrtsjournalisten eV (VEUS), April 30, 2016, accessed on October 10, 2017 .
- ↑ DFDS: Creating the world's largest scrubber fleet , ShortSeaShipping Inland Waterway Promotion Center , November 20, 2014. Accessed September 19, 2019.
- ↑ Feature: German RoRo Bastion , MarineLink, July 7, 2004. Retrieved August 16, 2017.
- ^ Award winner rolls on , IHS Fairplay, September 2, 2004.
- ↑ Shippax Award 2004 , Shippax. Retrieved August 16, 2017.