Loreley (ship, 1963)
The Loreley near Koblenz (1979)
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The Loreley was a passenger ship built in 1962/63 for the Steamship Company for the Lower and Middle Rhine ( DGNM ) , which was used by the Cologne-Düsseldorf Deutsche Rheinschiffahrt in plan service on the Rhine until 1996 . Three years later the ship was sold to a Dutch ship broker who wanted to resell it. Without finding a buyer, the ship sank at its berth in winter 2002 and was scrapped after the uplift in 2003. The passenger permit granted for a maximum of 3430 people is the highest ever for a passenger ship on European inland waters . The Loreley was the third ship of the shipping company that was named after the legendary slate rock Loreley in the St. Goarer Valley .
history
After the Cologne-Düsseldorfer had had good experiences with the spacious three-deck passenger ships Berlin and Germany, which had already been put into service , they ordered another ship of this type from the Cologne shipyard, Ewald Berninghaus, on February 20, 1962 . To optimize the driving characteristics, the Research Institute for Inland Shipping in Duisburg tested ship models that had been manufactured according to the shipping company's plans. After the tests were completed, the keel of the new ship was laid in June 1962 under construction number 788. The launch took place on April 6, 1963. On May 31, 1963, the wife of the then Mayor of Düsseldorf, Peter Müller, christened the ship in Sankt Goarshausen with the name of the Loreley slate rock there . The subsequent maiden voyage led to Oberwesel , where the ship turned and drove back to Sankt Goar . Two days later, the passenger ship was put into service on the high-speed route Cologne - Mainz . The Loreley was approved for 3400 passengers when it was commissioned, making it the ship with the highest passenger approval on European inland waters. In 1964 admission was increased to 3,430 people.
After the 1995 season, the Loreley's ship floor was so dilapidated that it should have been completely replaced. Since the estimated repair costs of 500,000 DM seemed uneconomical, the Cologne-Düsseldorfer put the passenger ship out of service. The decommissioning and deletion from the ship register took place in May 1996 - the name was taken over by a new modern passenger ship, the Loreley (IV), on July 6, 1996 . After four years of berth in the port of Cologne-Niehl , the Dutch shipbroker Heuvelmann bought the old ship and renamed it Lorele . On October 2, 1999, the transport in a tug with the two tugs Albert R and Herman Gre to the port of the new owner in 's-Gravendeel , Netherlands . In 2000, a French company planned to convert the Lorele into a restaurant ship and use it on the Seine in Paris. For the planned conversion, the ship was towed to the De Hoop shipyard in Lobith . Due to financial difficulties of the interested party, the renovation work was not started. In October 2001 the Loreley was towed to Beuningen-Weurt and offered for sale there for NLG 650,000 . She sank at this berth in winter 2002/2003. After the uplift, the shipyard Hendriks BV in Dodewaard cannibalized the ship. The remnants were scrapped at the wrecking yard Treffers in Haarlem .
Special missions
- On the occasion of a state visit, Queen Elisabeth II drove on May 20, 1965 with the Loreley from Koblenz to Kaub .
- As part of the German-French consultation talks, Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt and French President Georges Pompidou drove together from Koblenz to Mainz on July 5, 1971 .
- On October 12, 1971, the Japanese imperial couple Kōjun and Hirohito took the ship from Bingen am Rhein to Koblenz.
- Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt , Federal President Walter Scheel and the American President Gerald Ford together with their wives held talks on international economic policy on July 27, 1975.
Construction and technology
The Loreley was one of a total of four Voith-Schneider side drive vessels operated by the Cologne-Düsseldorfer. The drive configuration was similar to that of the older paddle-wheel steamers, with the Voith-Schneider propellers being attached to characteristic projecting side boxes on the ship's hull. The Loreley was largely identical to that of Germany , the later coat of arms of Mainz . Apart from slight differences in the windows on the hull, both ships had identical superstructures until the Deutschland had to undergo major repairs and modifications after a severe fire in 1968.
The ship was powered by two 12-cylinder Deutz diesel engines of 625 kW type SBA12M421 / 1 via two five -blade Voith-Schneider drives size 20 of type E / 110. The ship was 90.65 m long, 15.80 m wide (9.00 m above the frames ). The maximum draft is given as 1.48 m.
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Fischbach: The ships of the Köln-Düsseldorfer 1826-2004, self-published, Cologne 2004, p. 726
- ^ Ship investigation commission Cologne: Official ship certificate of May 28, 1963 . Quoted from Georg Fischbach: The ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer 1826–2004 , p. 727.
- ↑ Cologne Ship Investigation Commission: Official ship certificate from December 16, 1964 . Quoted from Georg Fischbach: The ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer 1826-2004 , p. 726.
- ^ Georg Fischbach: The ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer 1826-2004, self-published, Cologne 2004, p. 730.
literature
- Georg Fischbach: The ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer 1826-2004 , self-published, Marienhausen 2004, ISBN 3-00-016046-9