Moby Fantasy
 The Moby Fantasy in front of Bastia, June 2012
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The Moby Fantasy was a ferry of the Italian Moby Lines , which was commissioned in 1976 as Manuel Soto for the Spanish Compania Trasmediterranea . The ship was in service until September 2012 and was scrapped in Turkey from December 2013 .
history
The commissioned on September 20, 1971 Manuel Soto was on 13 March 1974, the hull number 128 at Union Naval de Levante SA in Valencia on down Kiel and from the February 15, 1975 left stack . The delivery to the Compania Trasmediterranea took place on April 7, 1976. The maiden voyage of the ship was delayed by a fire in the engine room on April 12, 1976, as a result of which the ferry at Nuevo Vulcano in Barcelona had to be repaired. In May 1976 the Manuel Soto was finally put into service on the route between Barcelona and the Balearic Islands and to Cádiz and the Canary Islands . Her sister ship , one year older, was the JJ Sister , which operated on the same route. The two units were also known as the Tiburón class. “Tiburón” is the Spanish word for “shark”.
Between May 1985 and May 1986 the Manuel Soto was used between Genoa , Palma , Málaga , Cadiz and the Canaries. Then she returned to her original route.
After another fire in the engine room on June 26, 1989, the ship was laid up in Cadiz . After almost three years of inactivity, it became the property of the Italian Moby Lines, who renamed it Moby Fantasy . After the Moby Fantasy lay in the port of Genoa as a hotel ship between May and August 1992 , she was renovated in Livorno in September 1992 and put into service on February 23, 1993 between Genoa and Bastia . The sister ship JJ Sister was also bought up and was used as Moby Magic until it was retired after an accident in 2003 .
In the following years the Moby Fantasy changed the route several times: in June 1997 from Livorno to Bastia, in 1998 from Livorno to Olbia and from 2005 from Civitavecchia to Olbia.
On June 21, 2006 the Moby Fantasy collided shortly before 1 p.m. local time off Olbia with the Nuraghes ferry belonging to the Tirrenia di Navigazione , causing both ships to be severely damaged. The Moby Fantasy had a dented bow, while the hull of the Nuraghes was torn open for several meters. The Moby Fantasy was towed to Golfo Aranci at around 5 p.m. as it was not possible to continue using its own machine power due to the threat of water ingress through the destroyed bow area and a slight list of the ferry. Several passengers and crew suffered minor injuries in the collision, and one passenger with heart problems was taken to a hospital in Olbia. No environmental pollution from leaking fuel could be determined. After renovation work at the Astilleros Palumbo shipyard in Naples , the ship returned to regular service.
In September 2011 the Moby Fantasy was used by the Italian government to transport refugees to Lampedusa , before it was first launched in Porto Empedocle in October and in Genoa from November 2011. From June 7, 2012, the ship was in use between Genoa and Bastia, before it was finally decommissioned in September 2012 and launched again in Genoa.
On May 10, 2013, the Moby Fantasy arrived in Valletta , where it stayed for the next seven months before it was sold to Turkey for scrapping in December 2013. On December 16, the ship arrived in Aliağa , where demolition work began on December 20, 2013 .
literature
- John May, William Mayes: Ferries: Southern Europe . Overview Press Ltd, Windsor 2004, ISBN 978-0-9547206-0-5 .
Web links
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- the ship on ferry-site.dk (English)
- Pictures after the collision with the nuraghes
Individual evidence
- ^ Ian Boyle: Trasmediterránea Page 2: Trasmed Conventional Ferries 1966-90. In: Simplon Postcards. 2006, accessed February 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Micke Asklander, Danielle Firenze: Images efter collisions mellan MOBY FANTASY och NURAGHES. In: Facta om Fartyg. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Moby Fantasy ha rischiato di affondare. In: La Nuova Sardegna. June 22, 2006, accessed February 19, 2020 .