Jadran (ship, 1957)
 The Jadran in Toronto, December 2005
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The Jadran was a passenger ship put into service in 1957 by the then Yugoslav shipping company Jadrolinija , which was built for liner service in the eastern Mediterranean. Since its retirement in 1975, the ship has been a floating restaurant under the name Captain John's Seafood Restaurant in Toronto Harbor , before operations ceased in 2012. In 2015 the Jadran went to Port Colborne, Canada for scrapping .
history
period of service
The Jadran was built as the type ship of the three-unit J-class under the hull number 131 at Brodogradiliste Uljanik in Pula and was launched on July 26, 1955. After delivery to the shipping company Jadrolinija, which at that time still belonged to Yugoslavia, in March 1957, the ship began operating between Venice , Rijeka , Split , Dubrovnik , Kotor , Corfu and Piraeus . Outside the season, the Jadran was also used for cruises .
After eighteen years in service for Jadrolinija on this route, the Jadran was retired in 1975 and replaced by the sister ships Dalmacija and Istra , which entered service in 1965 . In the same year the ship went to the entrepreneur John Latnik to Toronto to be used there under the name Captain John's Seafood Restaurant as a floating restaurant and for events. The public areas and the former dining room were converted for these purposes. The cabin areas of the Jadran remained unused or were converted into storage. A planned use of the rooms for hotel operations was not realized.
As a restaurant in Toronto
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In the first years as a restaurant, the Jadran was used as a restaurant together with a neighboring smaller ship, the Normac , built in 1902 . On the evening of June 2, 1981, the Normac was rammed by a harbor ferry and badly damaged, three people suffered minor injuries. About two weeks later, the ship sank on June 16, 1981 as a result of the collision. The wreck remained alongside the Jadran for five years before being completely removed in 1986. From then on, the Jadran was the only ship from Captain John's Seafood Restaurant .
After more than 25 years in operation, Captain John's Seafood Restaurant ran into increasing difficulties in the 2000s. In 2002 it filed for bankruptcy , but could continue to operate after reducing its staff. In August 2008, the restaurant was temporarily closed due to deficiencies in an inspection by the Ministry of Health. In 2009 an attempt by the owner to sell the Jadran failed . After further financial difficulties and serious hygienic deficiencies, the restaurant was closed in June 2012.
After a three-year layover, the ship went to a demolition yard in Port Colborne on May 11, 2015. On May 28, 2015, it left the port of Toronto with the participation of several hundred onlookers and a boat parade. The following morning the Jadran arrived at Port Colborne. The demolition work on the ship lasted until August 2015.
The two sister ships of the Jadran had already been scrapped in previous years: the Jedinstvo 2005 in Ecuador and the Jugoslavija 2011 in Turkey .
Web links
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- the three sister ships on ssmaritime.com (English)
- the history of the ship on medium.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Reuben Goossens: The Yugoslavian Trio of J Ships MS Jugoslavija, Jadran & Jedinstvo. In: ssmaritime.com. Accessed December 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Joanna Smith: Hidden depths at Captain John's. In: The Star. February 29, 2008, accessed April 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Jamie Bradburn: The Sinking of Captain John's. In: TorontoIST. May 28, 2015, accessed April 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Susan Pigg: Toronto bids goodbye to Captain John's. In: The Star. May 28, 2015, accessed December 7, 2017 .