Godesburg (ship)

Godesburg

The Godesburg in front of Cologne's old town

Ship data flag  Malta Ship type Day trip boat home port Valletta , Malta  Owner KD Europe S.à rl Shipping company Cologne-Düsseldorfer Shipyard Shipyard De Hoop Build number 361 building-costs 6 million DM Launch May 28, 1994 Commissioning June 19, 1994

Ship dimensions and crew length 65.90 m ( Lüa ) width 11.40 m Draft Max. 1.30 m displacement 608  t

Machine system machine 2 × Mitsubishi S6A3-MPTA, each 360 kW Machine performance 720 kW (979 hp) propeller 2 × Aquamaster US381, 1 × De Gerlien van Tiem ( bow thruster )

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 600

Others Registration numbers ENI 04032770

The Godesburg is an excursion ship that is operated on behalf of the Cologne-Düsseldorf Deutsche Rheinschiffahrt AG . It is mainly used in the planned service on the Middle Rhine between Koblenz and Mainz . Due to its circulation, it is used in weekend traffic on the longest route from Mainz to Cologne served by the shipping company .

history

In the evening at the Cologne pier

The passenger ship was built in 1994 by the De Hoop shipyard in Rijnwaarden under construction number 361. The keel was laid in February 1994, the launch on May 28 of the same year. The shipyard delivered the ship on June 8, 1994, nine days later Karin Clement, the wife of Wolfgang Clement at the time, christened the ship in Bonn with the name of Bad Godesberg's landmark, the Godesburg . The construction costs amounted to 6 million  Deutschmarks . Then she took on excursions in the scheduled service between Cologne and Mainz. During a stay in the shipyard in March 1995, she received air conditioning. In 2003, the two Deutz diesel engines that were used when the ship was built were exchanged for two brand-new Mitsubishi engines. In December 2008, the ship was sold to the wholly owned subsidiary KD Europe S.à rl in Luxembourg and then registered in Valletta , Malta in January 2009 . Since the ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer cannot reach their home port due to lack of seaworthiness, they are serviced in the Niehler Hafen in Cologne.

Furnishing

The Godesburg passes the "hostile brothers"

The Godesburg is a three-deck passenger ship with a saloon in the closed main deck. The usable area of the ship is around 560 m², the ceiling height is 2.40 m. On the lower deck, behind the bow propeller room, are the drinking water and fake tanks, followed by 11 staff cabins. From the central nave, the toilet facilities, a cloakroom, the galley and several refrigerated and storage rooms were set up. A large dining room for 348 passengers is located in the front of the main deck. Adjacent to the entrance hall in the rear central nave, in which an information desk has been set up, is the ship's bar with 34 seats. On the open deck designed for 230 people, a children's playground with two slides was created aft around the two dummy chimneys. All decks can also be accessed by wheelchair users via stair lifts. The Godesburg is approved for a maximum of 600 passengers.

technology

The Godesburg is powered by two 6-cylinder marine diesel engines from Mitsubishi , type S6A3-MPTA á 360  kW via two rudder propellers from Aquamaster-Bauma, type US381. The bow thruster from the Dutch manufacturer De Gerlien-van Tiem has a 235 kW DAF drive. The ship is 65.80 m long, 11.40 m wide and 7.10 m high. The maximum draft is given as 1.30 m.

literature

• Georg Fischbach: The ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer 1826-2004. Self-published, Marienhausen 2004, ISBN 3-00-016046-9 .
• Stephan Nuding: 175 years of Cologne-Düsseldorf Rhine Shipping Company. A historical representation in pictures and text. Schardt, Oldenburg 2001, ISBN 3-89841-035-8 .

Web links

Commons : Godesburg (Schiff)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Page about the Godesburg on the Cologne-Düsseldorfer website , accessed on August 9, 2020
• Page about Godesburg on www.debinnenvaart.nl , accessed on October 20, 2010 (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Georg Fischbach: The ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer 1826-2004 , p. 866ff
2. ↑ Annual report 2009 according to IFRS of Köln-Düsseldorfer, p. 8 , accessed on August 9, 2020
3. ↑ KD with Maltese flag , Kölnische Rundschau of April 8, 2009 , accessed on April 24, 2017
4. ↑ Floor plan of the Godesburg on the Cologne-Düsseldorfer website ( Memento of the original from December 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on November 20, 2010 (offline)