Jupiter (ship, 1961)
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The Jupiter , ex Moledet , was a passenger and cruise ship that sank in the port of Piraeus in 1988 after a collision.
Construction and technical data
The ship was on 19 February 1961 while Ateliers Chantiers de Bretagne et in Nantes with the name Moledet from the stack and was the very same year Israeli shipping company "ZIM" Israel Navigation Company delivered. It was 126.65 m long and 19.89 m wide, had a 6.45 m draft and was measured with 7,811 GRT and 3,828 NRT. The load capacity was 2,104 tons. Two 9-cylinder, 4-stroke marine diesel engines from SMET Pielstick, each with 4,767 kW, achieved a speed of 17 knots over two propellers .
The Moledet was designed as a single-class ship and aimed at the growing tourist travel market. It offered space for 594 passengers, with cabins on six decks . The better cabins with their own sanitary facilities were on the promenade deck . The remaining cabins were distributed over the Lido, main , restaurant, theater and A deck. Most of these were four-bed cabins, but there were also some two-bed and six-bed cabins. There was also a large dining room, dining room for children, a cinema, synagogue, swimming pool and two large lounges. The car garage was accessed through a side hatch in the foredeck.
career
The Moledet , with home port Haifa , ran the Haifa - Limassol - Naples (or Genoa ) - Marseille line , which it covered in 4½ days, and then returned via the same ports. She also carried out numerous cruises . The ship, although not infrequently plagued by engine problems, was very popular with its passengers.
The triumphant advance of passenger aviation also led to such high losses in the ZIM liner service towards the end of the 1960s that it was discontinued. The Moledet was withdrawn from service in 1969 after a total of 225 voyages and sold to the Greek Epirotiki Lines from Piraeus on September 28, 1970 . With the sale of its last passenger ship, ZIM ended its passenger business.
The ship was renamed Jupiter . Externally only slightly changed by an extension of the main deck to the front, the Jupiter became a popular cruise ship. Her first journey under the new name began on May 7, 1971.
Downfall
On October 21, 1988 at around 6 p.m., the Jupiter left the port of Piraeus to go on a one-week study trip in the Mediterranean. In addition to the crew of 110 men, 391 British school children between the ages of 13 and 15 and 84 teachers were on board . Only 15 minutes later, the ship collided outside the port entrance, about 1.2 nautical miles southwest of the east pier , with the Italian car transporter Adige , which was just entering the port. The collision tore a 4.5 × 12 m leak in the rear half of Jupiter's port side . The ship was quickly full of water, suffered engine trouble, received strong list , and started across the stern to sink. The lifeboats could not be used because of the strong list. The majority of passengers and crew were taken over by small ships and boats when the water level reached the upper decks, but about two dozen students were rescued from the water after the ship sank. After only 40 minutes, at 18.55 am, the ship was in 75 m water depth at the position 37 ° 56 ' N , 23 ° 36' O lost. A student, a teacher and two crew members were killed.
Aftermath
The wreck remained at the sinking site. In September 1999 there was a significant spill of oil from the wreck, probably caused by an earthquake on September 9th. As a result, around 195 m³ of oil were pumped out of the wreck in 43 days of work.
The psychological effect of the catastrophe was researched in a study published ten years later by the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London and also addressed in the book by one of the teachers concerned, published in 1999. Many of the young people therefore suffered from post- traumatic stress disorder . A Facebook page set up in February 2009 for survivors of the Jupiter disaster (“Jupiter disaster survivors”) shows that many of them are still grappling with the psychological consequences.
literature
- Mary Campion: Jupiter's Children . Liverpool University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-08532-3753-2
Web links
- National Maritime Museum: Moledet
- ZIM Israel Navigation Company, Page Two (3): Moledet, at www.ssmaritime.com
- Cruise Ship Jupiter Sunk, at www.cruisebruise.com
- The Independent: Forty minutes that changed everything, October 10, 1998
- Deseret News: Captain Accused of Ramming Cruise Ship, October 23, 1988
Footnotes
- ↑ = fatherland.
- ↑ 4,776 GRT, built in 1976, IMO number 7426057, shipping company Sicula Oceanica Societa per Azioni (Siosa)
- ↑ The Successful Oil Removal Operation from the Sunken Vessel Jupiter in Greece ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Mary Campion: Jupiter's Children . Liverpool University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-08532-3753-2
- ↑ Disaster Action Newsletter, Spring 2010, p. 6 ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2013 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. (PDF; 3.4 MB)
