Funchalense (ship, 1952)
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The Funchalense (2) was a Portuguese cargo ship built in 1952 , which until 1981 took over the cargo traffic between the Portuguese mainland and Madeira , later also the Azores , from 1966 until it was scrapped in 1982 under the name Ihla de Porto Santo .
Construction and technical data
On 6 April 1951, the shipyard Estaleiros Navais de Viana do Castelo in Aveiro built its first cargo ship on the order of the shipping company Empresa de Navegação Madeirense from Funchal . The keel of the ship was laid under hull number 14 in February 1952 and was launched on April 27, 1952 and completed in April 1953. It took over the name Funchalense from the shipping company's first motor freighter , named after the inhabitants of Funchal, the capital and the headquarters of the shipping company on Madeira. The ship was not only the shipyard's first freighter, but also the first fruit ship built in Portugal and the shipping company's first new build.
Her length was 58.99 meters, she was 8.87 meters wide, had a draft of 3.40 meters and measured 657 GRT or 316 NRT with a load capacity of 585 tons and a volume of 857 m³ in two holds . The drive consisted of a six-cylinder diesel engine of the type TMAS 396 # 1370 from the manufacturer Werkspoor from Amsterdam . He achieved 780 hp and acted on a screw . With that she reached a speed of 11.0 knots . The crew consisted of 12 men, and they could accommodate 9 passengers.
history
The shipping company Empresa de Navegação Madeirense took over the ship on April 22, 1953 in Lisbon from the shipyard. The freighter was the third fruit ship in the Portuguese merchant navy and the first of its kind for the shipping company. The Funchalense began her first voyage on May 1, 1953 to the Madeira archipelago . It replaced its name predecessor from 1927 and commuted alternately with the Madeirense (1) between mainland Portugal and Madeira. Every week she brought all the goods and products needed on the archipelago and usually also a few passengers to Funchal, and on the way back she took the island's export products - such as bananas or wine - with her to Portugal. In 1966 the shipping company gave the ship the new name Ilha de Porto Santo in order to pass on the name Funchalense to a new building ordered from the Estaleiros São Jacinto shipyard .
After 15 years of service, the shipping company initially put the ship out of service in Lisbon on September 13, 1968, but reactivated it in February 1969 to charter it to the Empresa Insulana de Navegação . The Empresa Insulana de Navegação , which also operated between Lisbon, Madeira and beyond the Azores, replaced the Terceirense , which sank on January 17th . The ship now operated in charter between Lisbon, Setúbal , Funchal and Aveiro. With the merger of the two shipping companies Empresa Insulana de Navegação and Companhia Colonial de Navegação in April 1974, the charter was transferred to the new shipping company Companhia Portuguesa de Transportes Marítimos .
The Companhia Portuguesa de Transportes Marítimos took over the ship on November 29, 1974 while retaining the name and registration. After the nationalization of the company in April 1975, the shipping company used the ship in island service in the Azores. During this time, she changed her home port from Funchal to Lisbon on October 4, 1976 and decommissioned it five years later on January 13, 1981 in Lisbon. In June 1982 she sold the ship to the Baptista & Irmãos scrapping yard in Alhos Vedros near Setúbal.
literature
- Luís Miguel Correia: Empresa de Navegação Madeirense 1907-2007, A Ediçoes e Iniciativas Náuticas, Lisbon 2009, ISBN 978-972-8536-12-1 .
Web links
- Funchalense (II) 1953–1966, Ilha de Porto Santo 1966–1982 at lmc-naviosportugueses.blogspot.com (Portuguese), accessed January 1, 2020
- Funchalense at naviosvelhos.blogspot.com (Portuguese), accessed January 1, 2020
- History of the predecessor GS Lines (Portuguese / English), accessed January 1, 2020
- Photos of the Funchalense (2) at lugardoreal.com (Portuguese), accessed on January 1, 2020
- Funchalense at naviearmatori.net , accessed January 1, 2020
- Collection of articles on Funchalense at lmcshipsandthesea.blogspot.com , (Portuguese), accessed on January 1, 2020