Fontainebleau (ship)

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Fontainebleau
Fontainebleau motor ferry
Fontainebleau motor ferry
Ship data
flag GermanyGermany Germany
Ship type ferry
class Thurgau class
home port Constancy
Ship dimensions and crew
length
54.0 m ( Lüa )
width 13.4 m
Draft Max. 1.97 m
displacement 534  t
Machine system
machine 2 × MTU 12V183T A61 with 341 kW each
Machine
performance 		960 hp (706 kW)
Top
speed 		12 kn (22 km / h)
propeller Voith-Schneider 2 VSP 16 E 100
Transport capacities
Permitted number of passengers 600
Vehicle capacity 40 cars

The motor ferry Fontainebleau is a car ferry on Lake Constance .

history

On January 5, 1969, the Konstanz public utility awarded the contract to the Bodan shipyard in Kressbronn to build a new ferry . It was the eighth ferry of the Stadtwerke Konstanz and the fourth ferry of the "Thurgau class". She is slightly larger than her sister ships Thurgau , Hegau and Fritz Arnold .

The launch took place on June 26, 1970. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the town twinning between Constance and Fontainebleau , the ferry was given the name of the French twin town. The ship was christened by the wife of the French Mayor Seramy.

The Fontainebleau began its regular service on the Konstanz-Meersburg ferry route on July 3, 1970, replacing the Konstanz from 1930 . Since then, the Fontainebleau has been in service without any major interruptions. At times she was chartered out on special occasions or for special tasks. So she served z. B. in November 2007 as a cable laying ship , when a fiber optic cable was laid between Friedrichshafen and Konstanz . The construction costs for the ferry amounted to 3,188,353 DM.

Fontainebleau motor ferry

There were no special incidents with the Fontainebleau , nor was it involved in any accidents worth mentioning. After 37 years of service it was foreseeable that extensive repairs would be expected in the near future. Since no modernizations were carried out during the entire operating time, the need was correspondingly great. After a cost estimate, it was decided to commission a new ferry based on the Tábor model and then to retire the Fontainebleau .

However, the double-ended ferry after baptism was Lodi on May 8, 2010 announced that they are not as originally planned, the Fontainebleau , but equipped only in 2003 at a cost of over 600,000 euros with new low-emission engines Fritz Arnold on the ferry Konstanz-Meersburg replace would.

Technical features

The ship was originally put into service with a width of 12.65 meters. In adaptation to a modernized bridge system, it was widened to 13.40 meters. The lane width on board is 9.70 meters and the usable height above the lane is 4.20 meters. The measured total height of the ferry is given as 13.20.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Konstanz volunteer fire brigade
  2. ↑ Press release of November 16, 2007, accessed on September 4, 2009
  3. ↑ Fritjof Schultz-Friese: 13th Lake Constance ferry baptized in the name of the partner city “Lodi” ( Memento from May 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) . In: Bodensee-Woche from May 10, 2010, accessed on June 2, 2019.
  4. ^ Josef Siebler: Baptism of the ship . In: Südkurier from May 7, 2010

Web links

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