Hvalpsund (ship, 1927)
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The Danish railway ferry Hvalpsund connected the places Hvalpsund on Himmerland and Sundsøre on Salling with a railway ferry connection from 1927 . Today she lies as a wreck off the Caribbean island of St. Martin .
history
On April 23, 1925, a law passed the establishment of the railway ferry connection from Hvalpsund across Hvalpsund to Sundsøre on Salling. On August 14, 1925, Aalborg-Hvalpsund Jernbaneselskab A / S (AHB) received the concession for this connection. This ferry connection remained the only private railway ferry in Denmark.
The motor ship of the AHB, based in Aalborg , was commissioned from Aalborg Værft in Aalborg in 1926 and put into operation with the opening of the railway ferry line in 1927. The ferry was Denmark's smallest rail ferry and could carry four freight wagons or 22 cars. On May 25, 1927, the ferry and the small freight yard in Sundsøre with storage and waiting room were put into operation.
The ferry took twelve minutes to make the crossing, and in the beginning there were seven crossings in each direction per day.
With the combined ferry, freight wagons were transported across the Hvalpsund as required, the remaining space was available for car transport.
Suspension of railway operations
The transfer of freight wagons across the Hvalpsund decreased sharply after the Second World War . When the Aalborg – Hvalpsund line was closed on March 31, 1969 , freight wagons were no longer used .
The ferry line was taken over by the two neighboring communities through the company, which was founded for this purpose, Interested in Louns-Alstrup Kommune og Thise Kommune in Hvalpsund. While the rails on the ship were preserved and only the grooves were closed, Hvalpsund was modernized in 1970 , in which a 4-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine from Åbenrå-Motorfabrik, Heinrich Callesen A / S with 320 hp was installed. The ship remained in service as a car ferry until 1980.
sale
In 1980 the ship was launched and taken over by J. Breijnberg Staaling in Viborg for recycling. In 1981 Aabenraa Verft carried out minor modifications , after which the ship was transferred to Anguilla / British West Indies under the new name Hvalp .
Until 1991, the Hvalp was operated by the shipping company K. O'Harrigan in Nassau ( Bahamas ) as an island ferry and transport ship, until it sank south of Sint Maarten ( Netherlands Antilles ) in 1991 . The wreck is a diving destination on a reef ( 18 ° 0 ′ N , 63 ° 0 ′ W ).
literature
- S. Bugge Vegger, Knud Erik Jacobsen: Hvalpsund-Sundsøre Færgefart gennem 500 år . 1st edition. 2006, ISBN 87-991248-0-7 .
Web links
- Jernbanefærgen Hvalpsund. In: skala-n.dk. Retrieved April 15, 2017 (Danish).
- Map of the rail ferries in Scandinavia. Retrieved April 15, 2017 .
- Farewell to the AHB. (PDF) In: jernbanearkivalier.dk. 1969, p. 48 , accessed April 15, 2017 (Danish).
- Ib V. Andersen: Danske jernbanefærger. (PDF) In: Signalpost . 1975, p. 57 , accessed on April 15, 2017 (Danish, No. 2).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holeby diesel engine factory, Holeby. In: Dansk Motor- og Maskinsamling. Retrieved April 15, 2017 (Danish).
- ^ Erik V. Pedersen: Hvalpsund – Sundsøre-overfarten. In: evp.dk. Retrieved April 15, 2017 (Danish).
- ↑ a b W. Langes: Hvalpsund. In: fjordfaehren.de. Retrieved April 15, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Overfarten mellem Hvalpsund and Sundsøre. In: toptop.dk. Archived from the original on April 16, 2017 ; Retrieved September 17, 2017 (Danish).
- ^ Ib V. Andersen: Danske jernbanefærger. (PDF) In: Signalpost . 1975, p. 64 , accessed on April 15, 2017 (Danish, No. 2).
- ↑ Dive objects. (PDF) p. 76 , accessed on April 15, 2017 (English).