Hamburg (ship, 1997)

Hamburg

The ship at the Hamburg Port Birthday 2013

Ship data flag  Bahamas other ship names C. Columbus Columbus Ship type Cruise ship Callsign C6OX6 home port Nassau Owner Conti 1. Kreuzfahrt GmbH & Co. KG MS "Columbus" Shipping company Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten (1997–2012) Plantours & Partner (since 2012) Shipyard MTW Schiffswerft GmbH , Wismar Build number 451 Keel laying 5th September 1996 Launch October 30, 1996 Commissioning Summer 1997 Whereabouts in motion

Ship dimensions and crew length 144.13 m ( Lüa ) width 21.5 m Draft Max. 5.15 m measurement 15,067 GT 5,092 NRZ   crew 170

Machine system machine diesel-mechanical 4 × diesel engines ( Wärtsilä 6L32), each 2,640 kW Machine performance 10,560 kW (14,358 hp) Service speed 18.5 kn (34 km / h) propeller 2 × controllable pitch propellers

Transport capacities Load capacity 1,378 dw Permitted number of passengers 400 in 197 cabins on 6 decks

Others Classifications Germanic Lloyd Registration numbers IMO 9138329

The Hamburg is a cruise ship that was built by the MTW shipyard in Wismar for the Conti shipping company . The ship belongs to a one-ship company of the Conti group of companies in Munich. It is managed by V.Ships Leisure in Monaco .

history

The keel was laid on September 5, the launch on October 30, 1996. The ship was built under the hull number  451 as Columbus and completed in June 1997. The commissioning took place in the same year. The name change to C. Columbus (unofficial spelling also c.Columbus ) was necessary because the ship was supposed to sail under the flag of the Bahamas and a ship called "Columbus" was already registered in the Bahamas .

It had been chartered out to Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten since it was commissioned . By 2006 it had already covered a distance equivalent to circumnavigating the earth nine times.

Hapag-Lloyd Kreuzfahrten returned the ship to the owner in May 2012 and replaced it with the Columbus 2, which was also chartered .

During a short stay in the shipyard in Italy, the ship was adapted to the needs of the new charterer, the Bremen company plantours & Partner. Plantours & Partners, who are using the ship as Hamburg , have chartered it for six years with an option to buy. The baptism took place on June 7th in Hamburg; Godmother was Carola Veit, President of the City Council . At plantours & Partner, the ship replaced the Vistamar .

The ship is of four six-cylinder four-stroke cycle - marine diesel engines of the type Wärtsilä 6L32 with a capacity of in each case 2.640  kW driven, the two variable pitch act. The ship is supplied with energy by another Wärtsilä 6L32 diesel engine and two shaft generators .

A special feature of the ship are trips on the North American Great Lakes ; Due to its dimensions, the ship can pass the locks of the St. Lawrence Seaway ( Seawaymax ) and navigate the Great Lakes.

Incidents

At the end of April 2015, an oil leak caused machine damage. The trip was canceled in Tangier and the following trip was also canceled.

On May 5, 2015, a fishing net got caught in the propeller.

On May 11, 2015, strong winds caused a bottoming off the Isle of Mull . The ship had to be repaired in a shipyard and resumed service on August 10, 2015. From June 9, which replaced Germany to Hamburg .

photos

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  The ship as C.Columbus in Hapag-Lloyd colors (May 22, 2002)

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  The Hamburg at the Überseebrücke (June 7, 2012)

See also

• List of cruise lines

Web links

Commons : IMO 9138329  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

• Information about the ship at plantours & Partner
• M / S Columbus (1997)

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Germanischer Lloyd : Technical and administrative data of the "Hamburg". (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 13, 2015 ; accessed on February 13, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ "Columbus" from 2012 under a different flag , Weser-Kurier , February 28, 2011
3. ↑ ^{a b} New flagship for plantours & Partner , THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung , March 1, 2011.
4. ↑ Plantours takes over the old Columbus ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , touristik aktuell, May 18, 2012.  
5. ↑ From “C. Columbus "becomes" Hamburg " ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung, May 21, 2012.  
6. ^ Name change: MS Columbus becomes MS Hamburg (PDF; 29 kB) , press release from plantours & Partner, March 2011.
7. ↑ MS “Hamburg” on the christening at the Überseebrücke , NDR , June 7, 2012.
8. ↑ MS Hamburg has engine failure: Current trip canceled. April 27, 2015, accessed May 28, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Plantours reports that the MS Hamburg has hit the ground. May 14, 2015, accessed May 28, 2015 . 
10. ↑ MS Germany in action for PLANTOURS cruises. (PDF) May 3, 2015, accessed May 31, 2015 . 
11. ↑ Due to the great demand, Plantours Cruises extended the charter contract by 13 days. MS Germany is successfully being extended. (PDF) Plantours Cruises, July 9, 2015, accessed on July 9, 2015 .