My story

My story

My story on the Danube in Strudengau

Ship data flag  Netherlands other ship names Basilea Danubia (2007) Aurora (2005) Papageno (2004) Danube Pearl (2003) Bonaventure Pearl (2001) Austria (1976) Holland Pearl (1971) Ship type River cruise ship Callsign PD2487 home port Bemmel Owner Euro Shipping Voyages Shipyard Bodewes Binnenvaart Launch December 12, 1970 takeover April 23, 1971

Ship dimensions and crew length 104.64 m ( Lüa ) width 11.61 m Draft Max. 1.40 m displacement 1250  t   crew 40

Machine system machine 2 × Deutz diesel engines Machine performance 1,028 kW (1,398 hp) propeller 2 × Voith-Schneider 1 bow thruster

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 174

Others Registration numbers * Europe no .: 2006943 (1971–1975) Europe no .: 4023760 (1976–1996) ENI no. : 07001704

The My Story is a river cruise ship built in 1970/71 by the Dutch Euro Shipping Voyages in Bemmel , which has been in the charter of the former company’s own tour operator Select Voyages on the Danube between Passau and Budapest since 2011 . She is the structurally identical sister ship of the Bellriva, which was also launched in 1971 .

history

The Austria of Cologne-Düsseldorfer

The cabin ship was built in 1970 and 1971 by the Bodewes inland shipyard in Millingen am Rhein under construction number 686 for the Holland River Line from Rotterdam . The keel was laid on March 26, 1970, the launch on December 12 of the same year. The construction costs amounted to 12 million  guilders . On April 23, 1971, she was christened Holland Pearl at a ceremony . From May 8, 1971, she was used in the plan service on the Rhine and its tributaries and the IJsselmeer .

On April 1, 1976, the Holland River Line with its two cabin ships was taken over by the Köln-Düsseldorfer , which already had six similar ships in service in the river cruise traffic on the Rhine . The ship was renamed Austria by the new owner . In 1995 West KD Schiffs-Invest AG, a subsidiary of West LB , took over the ship. After modernizing the outdated equipment, it was sold to the Rhine Danube Line in Basel in 1997. 2000 Viking River Cruises was short-term owner, because in 2001 it became the next owner who Bonaventura Cruising from 's-Gravendeel , in Bonaventure Pearl renamed. In 2003, the Danube River Line acquired the ownership of the ship and renamed it on in relation to the new application Danube in Danube Pearl to. In the following years the ship owner changed several times, the ship was named Papageno , Aurora , Basilea Danubia in chronological order and finally in 2007 the current name My Story from the Dutch Euro Shipping Voyages . The ship is registered under ENI number 07001704 with home port Bemmel .

Equipment and technology

Rear view

The My Story is an upper middle class three-deck cabin ship with 89 cabins. The crew quarters are located in the main deck in the foredeck to which 36 two-bed cabins and a sauna are connected. There are 53 cabins on the upper deck, seven of which can only be booked individually. All cabins are 11 m² each  and each has a shower / toilet, telephone and satellite TV . The double units are all equipped with two separate beds. The panorama salon is located in the front panorama deck . The saloon, which is equipped with a bar, is glazed all around in the bow area . The restaurant and kitchen are connected in the middle part of the ship. Sun loungers, chairs and tables are available for passengers on the open deck, which is equipped with a sun sail.

The ship will have two diesel engines à 514  kW of Deutz two Voith-Schneider drives driven. The bow thruster has a 147 kW drive. The ship is 104.64 m long, 11.61 m wide and 9.20 m high. By lowering the wheelhouse and chimney, as well as moving the railings and awnings, the height for trips on bodies of water with low bridges, such as the Moselle and Main-Danube Canal , can be reduced to about 7.00 m. The maximum draft is given as 1.40 m.

literature

• Georg Fischbach: The ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer 1826-2004 , self-published, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-00-016046-9
• Stephan Nuding: 175 years of Cologne-Düsseldorf Deutsche Rheinschiffahrt AG , Schardt Oldenburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-8984-1035-9

Web links

Commons : My Story  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Ship portrait of the tour operator Nicko Tours (PDF; 701 kB)
• Entry about the ship in the Dutch ship database www.debinnenvaart.nl
• Description of the ship on hanseatreisen.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Georg Fischbach: The ships of the Cologne-Düsseldorfer 1826-2004 , self-published, Cologne 2004, p. 804ff
2. ↑ ^{a b} Entry on My Story in the Dutch inland waterway database at www.debinnenvaart.nl , accessed on November 7, 2010
3. ↑ Deck plan of the My Story on www.radschiff.com , accessed on August 16, 2020
4. ↑ Portrait of the ship by the tour operator Nicko Tours (PDF; 701 kB), accessed on August 16, 2020