Hanseatic (ship, 1964)
 As Shalom (1964)
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The Hanseatic was a passenger ship on the Hamburg-Atlantic Line . She was the second passenger ship with this name and was originally put into service in 1964 under the name Shalom .
history
The ship was built in 1962 under the hull number Z21 at the Penhoët shipyard of the Chantiers de l'Atlantique in Saint-Nazaire , France , and delivered to the Israeli company Zim Israel Navigation Co in early 1964 under the name Shalom .
On November 26, 1964, the Shalom was involved in a ship accident : after it collided with the Norwegian tanker Stolt Dagali , it broke apart and sank.
In 1967 the Hamburg-Atlantic-Linie acquired the ship, renamed it Hanseatic and used it as a replacement for the predecessor of the same name that was destroyed by fire in 1966 . After the end of which she joined in 1973 several times the owner and the name: First it was in Doric , 1981 in Royal Odyssey , 1991 Regent Sun and most recently in 1999 in Sun renamed. As such, she was in Freeport in the Bahamas from 1999 to 2001 . Then she was to be towed to India for scrapping , but sank at Cape St. Francis off the coast of South Africa to a depth of 5000 meters.
Trivia
The ship served as the backdrop and location for the television series Das Ferienschiff in 1968 .
literature
- Arnold Kludas: The world's great passenger ships. A documentation. Volume V: 1950–1974 , Stalling Verlag; Oldenburg, Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-7979-1844-5 , p. 146.
Individual evidence
- ^ TV Production Hanseatic II. Accessed September 27, 2018 .