Mistral Express

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Mistral Express
The Mistral Express in May 2010
The Mistral Express in May 2010
Ship data
flag MoroccoMorocco Morocco
other ship names

Esterel (1981–1997)
Mistral (1997–2005)

Ship type ferry
home port Casablanca
Shipping company Comanav
Shipyard Dubigeon Normandy , Nantes
Build number 162
Launch September 26, 1980
takeover May 15, 1981
Decommissioning January 2012
Whereabouts Scrapped in Turkey in 2016
Ship dimensions and crew
length
145.01 m ( Lüa )
width 23.8 m
Draft Max. 6.3 m
measurement 12,676 GT
 
crew 126
Machine system
machine 4 × Pielstick Alstholm 16PC2-5-V-400 diesel engines
Machine
performanceTemplate: Infobox ship / maintenance / service format 		20,550 kW (27,940 hp)
Top
speed 		23.5 kn (44 km / h)
propeller 2 ×
Transport capacities
running track meters 576 m
Permitted number of passengers 1,726
Vehicle capacity 700 cars
Others
Registration
numbers 		IMO 7915101

The Mistral Express was a ferry of the Moroccan shipping company Comanav , which was commissioned in 1981 as Esterel for the Société nationale maritime Corse Méditerranée . The ship remained in service until January 2012 and was scrapped in Aliağa, Turkey, in 2016 after four years of berth .

history

The Esterel was ordered on July 16, 1979 under construction number 162 from Dubigeon-Normandie in Nantes and launched on September 26, 1980. After her christening and subsequent delivery to the Société nationale maritime Corse Méditerranée on May 15, 1981, the ship began the ferry service between Marseille , Corsica and Tunis as well as from Sète to Oran in the same month .

During her service life, the Esterel was chartered twice by the French government: in 1984 for a mission in Lebanon and in 1990 for the transport of troops between Toulon and Yanbu . In February 1997, the ship ended its service for the Société nationale maritime Corse Méditerranée and was used from June 1997 as a mistral between Nador and Almería by the shipping company FerriMaroc .

In March 2005, the Mistral went under the name Mistral Express to the Moroccan shipping company Comanav, which it continued to use between Nador and Almería from April of the same year . In March 2011 the ship took part in the evacuation of refugees from Tripoli . Following the bankruptcy of Comanav was Mistral Express retired in January 2012 and in Nador launched .

After more than four years of layover, the ship was sent to the Aliağa demolition yard in Turkey for scrapping in June 2016, where it arrived on June 26th.

The sister ship of the Mistral Express is the Corse , which entered service in 1983, remained in service until May 2016 and has been docked in Salamis since then .

Web links

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