Heidi (ship)
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The Heidi was a ferry built in 1966 as the Stena Baltica . The ship was mainly used as the Stena Baltica by Stena Line in ferry traffic between Sweden and Denmark . From 1970 it operated as Caledonia for the Caledonian Steam Packet Company in Scotland . In 1988 the ferry was sold to Italy and used there as Heidi in the Gulf of Naples .
history
The ship was built under hull number 53 at the Langesund mekaniske Verksted shipyard in Langesund for the Swedish shipping company Stena. The keel was laid in December 1964 and the launch on March 27, 1965. The ship was completed on April 19, 1966.
The ship entered service in April 1966 under the Swedish flag with home port Gothenburg . Originally it was intended for the route from Nakskov to Kiel , but it came into service on the route from Gothenburg to Frederikshavn , on which the Stena Danica was already operating. In June, Stena chartered the ship at short notice to the shipping company Lion Ferry, which needed a replacement for a ship that had broken down on the Grenaa - Halmstad - Copenhagen route .
In October 1966 the ship returned to the Gothenburg – Frederikshavn route. In April 1967 the ferry operated for a short time in the charter of the shipping company Malmö-Kastrup Ruten between Malmö and Kastrup , before Stena Line deployed the ship in the English Channel between Calais and Tilbury from May 1967 . In addition to Tilbury, Southend-on-Sea was also called. The ship turned out to be too small for the route and was therefore withdrawn from the route in autumn of that year. This was followed by a brief assignment in the charter of the Vikinglinjen , which used the ship between Kapellskär , Mariehamn and Naantali . From October 1967 the ferry operated again for Stena Line between Gothenburg and Frederikshavn.
At the end of 1969 the ship was sold for £ 600,000 to the Caledonian Steam Packet Company in Glasgow (which merged with MacBrayne in 1973 to create the Caledonian MacBrayne shipping company ), which needed a replacement ship for its connection from Ardrossan to Brodick on the Isle of Arran . The Glen Sannox previously used on the route was too small for the increasing demand and loading and unloading via side ramps was also too slow. The ship was renamed Caledonia and brought under the flag of the United Kingdom . Home port was Glasgow . The Caledonia was smaller than the Glen Sannox and could also carry fewer vehicles and, in particular, fewer passengers, but was the first ferry of the Caledonian Steam Packet Company to have a continuous vehicle deck and could therefore be loaded and unloaded faster.
The ship was adapted and equipped for its new task at a shipyard in Greenock and put into service on the route between Ardossan and Brodick at the end of May 1970. The ship was approved for 650 passengers in the summer months and 132 passengers in the winter months.
In the spring of 1976 the Caledonia and the Clansman exchanged routes. The Caledonia was now used in the summer months between Oban and Craignure on the Isle of Mull . In the winter months she ran again between Ardossan and Brodick. In the autumn of 1987 the ship was sold within Scotland. However, plans to use it as a floating restaurant in Dundee did not materialize. In 1988 it was therefore sold on to Italy . The new name of the ship operated under the flag of Italy with home port Naples was Heidi . It was now operated by the shipping company Traghetti Pozzuoli between Pozzuoli and the island of Ischia in the Gulf of Naples. used.
In 2004 the ship was launched . In July 2005 it sank at its mooring in Naples. The ship was later lifted and sold to Turkey for demolition in April 2006.
Technical data and equipment
The ship was two four-stroke - nine cylinder - diesel engines of the manufacturer MAN (type: G9V 30/45), each with 982 kW power driven. The engines worked on two controllable pitch propellers . The ship was equipped with a bow thruster .
The ship had a continuous vehicle deck that was accessible via a bow and a stern ramp . There was a bow visor in front of the bow ramp that could be opened upwards. Above the vehicle deck there were two decks with facilities for the passengers and the ship's crew as well as the bridge . Two lounges and a self-service restaurant were available for passengers. On the upper deck there was an open deck area with seating, although there was only limited space available.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c M / S Stena Baltica , Fakta om Fartyg. Retrieved February 10, 2020.
- ↑ a b c Heidi (ex. Stena Baltica) , Faergelejet.dk. Retrieved February 10, 2020.
- ↑ a b Anders Bergenek, Rickard Sahlsten: Stena Line 1966 , Stena Line Blog. Retrieved February 10, 2020.
- ↑ Anders Bergenek, Rickard Sahlsten: Stena Line in 1967 , Stena Line Blog. Retrieved February 10, 2020.
- ↑ a b c d History of Caledonia , Ships of CalMac. Retrieved February 10, 2020.