Liburnija (ship)

Liburnia

The Liburnija in the port of Split, December 2013

Ship data flag  Croatia Ship type Ferry home port Rijeka Owner Jadranska Linijska Plovidba Shipping company Jadrolinija Shipyard De Merwede , Hardinxveld-Giessendam Build number 582 Launch March 16, 1965 takeover July 2, 1965 Commissioning August 1965 Decommissioning March 2015 Whereabouts Scrapped in Turkey in 2015

Ship dimensions and crew length 89.21 m ( Lüa ) width 16.41 m Draft Max. 4.2 m measurement 3,910 GT

Machine system machine 2 × Sulzer 8TAD48 diesel engines Machine performance 4,410 kW (5,996 hp) Top speed 15 kn (28 km / h)

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 700 Vehicle capacity 110 cars

Others Registration numbers IMO no. 6511350

The Liburnija was a ferry of the Croatian shipping company Jadrolinija , which entered service in 1965 and could also be used for cruises . The ship had a lifespan of fifty years and was scrapped in Turkey in 2015 .

history

The Liburnija was built under construction number 582 at De Merwede in Hardinxveld-Giessendam and launched on March 16, 1965. On July 2, 1965, she was handed over to her owner Jadrolinija and put into service in August 1965 in the ferry service between Yugoslavia , Greece and Italy . The ship could carry up to 700 passengers and 110 cars. Since it was equipped with cabins for a total of 182 passengers, it could also be used for cruises.

The Liburnija off Korčula, July 2005

The Liburnija in the Aliağa shipyard, April 2015

In November 1971 the Liburnija went on a cruise to South America , which took the ship from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to Guyana , Chile , Ecuador , Honduras , Mexico and Jamaica . In 1972 it returned to normal liner service.

In the 1980s, the Liburnija ran regular liner services along the entire, at that time Yugoslavian Adriatic coast. The line ran from Rijeka in the north via Split and Korčula to Dobrovnik in the south.

In December 1991, the Liburnija led the Libertas 2 convoy : during the siege of Dubrovnik , civilian ships supplied the population and refugees staying in the city with food.

From December 28, 2002 to January 1, 2003 the Liburnija was used for a New Year's Eve cruise from Rijeka to Dubrovnik . In 2005 the ship switched to the route from Split to Vis . In the following years, the Liburnija was used on various routes off the coast of Croatia before it was launched in Mali Lošinj in September 2012 .

In May 2013, the ship returned to liner service and was used on the route from Rijeka via Split, Stari Grad , Korčula and Sobra to Dubrovnik, on which it was already in service a year before it was temporarily out of service.

In March 2015 the Liburnija was retired after almost fifty years of service and sold to Turkey for scrapping. On April 6, 2015, the ship arrived at the scrapping yard in Aliağa , where it was dismantled in the following weeks.

Web links

Commons : IMO 6511350  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

• the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
• Photos of the interior of the ship
• Travel report on Liburnija on abendblatt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Julija Barunčić Pletikosić, Željka Križe Gračanin: Croatian Print Media Coverage of Humanitarian Activities Organized in 1991 in the Dubrovnik Region , in: Renaud de la Brosse, Mato Brautović (ed.): Reporting the Attacks on Dubrovnik in 1991, and the Recognition of Croatia , Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, pp. 185–199 (in English) ISBN 978-1-4438-7279-9