Molengat (ship)
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The Molengat was a double-ended ferry operated by the Dutch shipping company Texels Eigen Stoomboot Onderneming (TESO).
history
Due to the increasing tourism on the island of Texel , there were increasingly longer waiting times at the ferry docks in the 1970s, especially during the season. An increase in the departure frequency by another ship, previously the two ferries Marsdiep and Texelstroom built in the 1960s, commuted between the ports in Den Helder and 't Horntje , was not possible for logistical reasons. The then TESO managing director Theo Hoogerheide therefore proposed to have a ferry built with two vehicle decks on top of each other. The double-decker ferries used in the province of Zeeland across the Scheldt between Vlissingen and Breskens served as a model . Despite protests, the proposal was implemented and the Bureau voor Scheepsbouw in Bloemendaal , which had also designed the ferries across the Scheldt, commissioned to design such a ferry for ferry traffic to Texel.
The construction contract for the ship was signed on July 17, 1978. The ship was under the hull number 972 on the shipyard Verolme Scheepswerf in Heusden built. The keel was laid on April 17th, the launch on December 15th, 1979. The ship was christened on the day of the launch. Godmother was Thea Hoogerheide-Lips, the wife of the managing director of Texels Eigen Stoomboot Onderneming. The construction of the ship cost around 37 million guilders .
At Verolme Scheepswerf, the ship was only built to the extent that it still fit under the bridges below the shipyard. The hull was towed to IJsselmonde , where further superstructures were placed on the hull and the ship was completed. It was delivered to TESO on June 19, 1980.
The Molengat operated for the first time between Den Helder and 't Horntje on August 29, 1980. Initially, only the lower vehicle deck could be used, as the necessary adjustments to the infrastructure and the construction of new loading ramps in the ports of Den Helder and 't Horntje were delayed by years due to protests. The new loading ramps were built in 1986 by Rijkswaterstaat , an authority of the then Ministerie van Verkeer en Waterstaat, for around 29 million guilders and could only be used from June 26, 1986.
With the commissioning of the Molengat , the two smaller ferries Marsdiep and Texelstroom were withdrawn from the route and served from then on as replacement ships and to provide support when traffic was high.
In February 1991 the Molengat was replaced by the new and somewhat larger Schulpengat , but remained in service as a replacement ship and to provide support in times of high traffic. After the Dokter Wagemaker went into service in September 2005, the Molengat was decommissioned and later sold.
The ship was named after the Molengat , a sea channel between Den Helder and the island of Texel.
Technical data and equipment
The propulsion of the ship was a diesel-electric with two Voith Schneider propellers , the four electric motors, with 1,000 kW power were driven. For electricity generation six generators were available ranging from eight-cylinder - diesel engines manufacturer's MaK were driven each with 883 kW of power.
The ship had two vehicle decks, on which a total of 1656 m² were available, 837 m² on the lower and 819 m² on the upper vehicle deck. The two vehicle decks consisted of a central area with four car lanes each and a lateral lane on each side of the ferry. A total of 190 cars could be transported, 100 on the lower and 90 on the upper vehicle deck. 19 trucks could also be transported on the lower vehicle deck. 586 m² were available for this. The side lanes were open or only partially closed on the water side for weight reasons.
Above the vehicle decks there was a deck with the facilities for the passengers as well as a wheelhouse arranged above at both ends . The passenger capacity of the ship was 1250 people.
Whereabouts of the ship
The ferry was sold to an Indian shipping company at the beginning of 2008 , which had the ship in Singapore converted into an offshore supplier and flotel. The ship is under the name Halani 1 under the flag of St. Vincent and the Grenadines in service. It is of Halani Shipping in Mumbai bereedert . In 2019 the ship was renamed Alan and stranded under the flag of Gabon in India for demolition.
Web links
- Veerboot Molengat , website about the TESO ferries
Individual evidence
- ^ Molengat , Koninklijke NV Texels own Stoomboot Onderneming. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
- ↑ a b c d Molengat , Castles of the Seas. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
- ^ Company history , Koninklijke NV Texels own Stoomboot Onderneming. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
- ↑ a b Louis Engelman: Veerboot Texel pas na zes jaar een real dubbeldekker , Leidsch Dagblad , May 27, 1986, p. 15. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
- ^ M / S Molengat , Fakta om Fartyg. Retrieved October 29, 2018.
- ↑ Veerboot Schulpengat, Schulpengat.nl . Retrieved October 29, 2018.
- ↑ Halani 1 , data sheet, Halani Group of Companies (PDF, 2.7 MB). Retrieved October 29, 2018.
- ↑ Halani 1 , data sheet / GA plan, Halani Shipping (PDF, 578 kB). Retrieved October 29, 2018.