Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (ship, 1996)
 Railway ferry Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
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The Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is a German railway ferry of the Swedish ferry company Stena Line on the western Baltic Sea .
It is the largest German ferry and the second largest rail ferry in the world and bears the name of a German state . Together with the Skåne ferry , the largest rail ferry in the world, it operates on the approximately 150 km long ferry route Rostock – Trelleborg (southern Sweden).
After Stena Line took over five Baltic Sea ferry routes from Scandlines in mid-2012, the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ferry also joined Stena Line.
Ferry line
For the crossing from Rostock to Trelleborg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania needs six hours of scheduled travel time and 15,000 liters of fuel .
Ship data
Construction of the ship began on July 27, 1996 at the Schichau Seebeck shipyard in Bremerhaven . The client was the Deutsche Fährgesellschaft Ostsee (DFO). She has been in ferry service under the German flag since December 16, 1996. From 1998 she belonged to Scandlines , since 2012 to Stena Line.
The ferry is 199.98 m long, 29.5 m including fenders or 33.2 m as the greatest width across the bridge lugs wide and 45 m high, and is measured with 37,987 GT .
The maximum speed is around 22.5 knots . It reaches this speed when all four main engines are used, which can deliver a total of 25,200 kW . Two main machines can drive one shaft at a time . The Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has two controllable pitch propellers , each with a rudder behind it. It has a bow rudder for reversing . It also has two bow thrusters .
The ferry has two lifeboats with 150 places each as well as twelve life rafts and two MES stations .
Transport capacity
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The ship is approved for 600 passengers who can be accommodated in 161 cabins. There is a small cinema and pools on board .
On the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , a total of 3,198 gauge meters are available on 3 transport decks for rolling cargo. The lower of these (deck 3) can be loaded with up to 945 m train length of railway vehicles , distributed over six tracks . However, trucks are also regularly housed in the railway deck when there are no wagons on board. The other two decks can each hold up to 445 units of cars or a smaller number of trucks and semi-trailers .
fire
On November 19, 2010 around 8.30 p.m., shortly before docking in Rostock, a truck caught fire on the vehicle deck. A crew member who had gone to the maneuvering station half an hour before the start of the watch discovered and reported the fire as it was developing. First, the fire was fought by the ship's crew and prevented from spreading. After the ship had moored at its berth (whereby the forward mooring station could not be reached), several municipal fire departments supported the extinguishing work, whereupon the fire was extinguished in two hours. All passengers were able to leave the ship unharmed. The only damage was soot on the ceiling of Deck 5, a partially burnt out truck trailer and a scorched tarpaulin from a neighboring truck trailer. One departure was canceled.
See also
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (F 218) , frigate of the German Navy
Web links
- Info about the ship at Fakta om Fartyg (Swedish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stena now operates 37 ships . In: Daily port report from October 15, 2012, p. 3
- ↑ a b c d e f Scandlines - iPaper (English)