Nearchos (ship, 1968)
 The Nearchus in 2010 under the name Menhir
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The Nearchos is a Greek Ro-Pax vessel , the 1968 Ro-Ro - Ferry Christian IV was built for a Norwegian shipping company. From 1984 she drove as Pernas Safari (Malaysia), Safari (Malta), Lobo Marinho (Portugal), Lobo dos Mares (North Korea, Liberia, Panama) and Menhir (Panama). In 2016 the conversion to the cargo ship Nearchos took place .
Construction and technical data
Just before her 1966 ferry Skagerrak declined, the Norwegian shipping company ordered Bergen Steamship Company on 15 June 1966, a sister ship of the Skagerrak at the shipyard Aalborg Shipyard in Denmark that the ship on 1 July 1967 under the hull number 173 to put Kiel . The sister ship was built according to the same drawings as Skagerak , the bridge was moved a few meters forward and, based on the experience of the sunken Skagerak, the attachment of the cargo hatches was changed. The launch took place on September 29, 1967, the delivery to the shipping company took place on February 8, 1968.
It is 87.20 meters long, 15.94 meters wide and has a draft of 4.15 meters. It was initially measured with 2,707 GRT or 1238 NRT, after the renovation in 2016 then measured with 4,163 GRT. The drive consists of four Burmeister - & - Wain - diesel engines , whose performance together 6,414 kW is. These act on two propellers , the ship reaches a speed of 19 knots . Up until the renovation in 2016, the ferry was able to carry around 775 passengers as well as 140 cars and 3 railways, after the renovation 25 large trucks and 20 trucks or 20 trucks and 40 cars.
history
Norwegian Christian IV (1968-1984)
After the ship was handed over to the Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab shipping company, the Christian IV started operating two days later, on February 10th. Until 1984 she used the ship mainly on the connection between Kristiansand on the southern tip of Norway and Hirtshals in northern Denmark. In addition, the ferry shuttled with just a few trips on the two routes between Kristiansand and Hanstholm in the north-west of Denmark and between Arendal and Hirtshals. From autumn 1983 to spring 1984 the Christian IV was a hotel ship in Lerwick on the Shetland Islands .
Malaysian Pernas Safari (1984-1994)
In October 1984 the state-owned Malaysian shipping company Perbadanan National Shipping Line acquired the ferry. The shipping company, which was only founded in 1982 and is based in Kuala Lumpur , named the ship Pernas Safari on November 14th . The same day the ship left Norway for Indonesia. For the subsequent period, all that is known is that it was converted into a troop transport for 800 soldiers in 1985 and was in service with the shipping company until June 1994.
Maltese Safari (1994-1996)
The ship came back to Europe from the Far East in June 1994: the buyer, Endeavor Shipping SA from Valletta , Malta , shortened the name to Safari and moved it to the shipyard in Keratsini in Athens in July . Among other things, the tracks for trains were removed. She then operated for the Safari Lines until May 1995 on the Bari , Corfu and Igoumenitsa route and from May 1995 to May 1996 in charter for the Stern Maritime Lines between Bari, Igoumenitsa and Çeşme .
Portuguese Lobo Marinho (1996-2003)
In 1996 the Portuguese Grupo Sousa took over the ferry connection between Funchal on Madeira and the neighboring island of Porto Santo after winning a tender . For the shipping company Porto Santo Line, which was only founded in 1989 , she bought the ferry, which she initially adapted to the requirements by means of modifications and renamed Lobo Marinho (German "sea lion"). The start of operations and the first crossing took place on June 8, 1996. Until their new ferry, the second Lobo Marinho, went into service in June 2003, the ferry shuttled between the two islands of the archipelago almost every day .
Lobo dos Mares (2003-2005)
With the commissioning of the new Lobo Marinho , the Porto Santo Line changed the name of the old ship to Lobo Marinho 1 and chartered it to the Cabo Verde Maritima shipping company from Cape Verde . There the ship was named Lobo dos Mares on July 10, 2003 . From August 13 to December 2003, the Lobo dos Mares operated weekly between the capital Praia on the island of Santiago and Mindelo on the neighboring island of São Vicente . There is still some uncertainty as to where to go in 2004. From December 3 to December 10, 2004, the ship was decommissioned due to safety deficiencies.
Changing owners of the menhir (2005-2016)
It was not until December 10, 2004 that the Portuguese Porto Santo Line sold the ship to a new owner, Veensham Shipping from Panama , and Wŏnsan in North Korea became its new home port . In the same month the ship sailed via Gibraltar , reached the shipyard in Athens in January 2005 and was named Menhir there on February 28th . Until February 2008, the ship remained in the possession of Veensham Shipping without any known missions. In this month Mango Seas Inc. from Monrovia in Liberia acquired the ship, Freetown became its new home port, and from April of that year the ship then fled the Panama flag. Here, too, the use of the ship still needs clarification. In 2016 the menhir was in Greece as a trailer .
Greek Nearchos (since 2016)
On March 23, 2016, the Greek shipping company Creta Cargo Lines bought the ship. The shipping company was founded in 2013 and specializes in freight traffic, in particular of vehicles, dangerous and special goods on RoRo ships to the islands of the Aegean and Crete . In addition to the new acquisition, the shipping company has a second ship, the Italos . The former menhir was converted into a RoPax ship in Greece in five months and was given the name Nearchos . The rear part of the superstructure was removed so that the vehicle deck on the rear half of the ship is open and also suitable for the transport of dangerous goods. The ship can carry 25 trucks and 20 cars or 20 trucks and 40 cars.
literature
- Luís Miguel Correia: Lobo Marinho de / of 2003 (Portuguese / English), EIN Edicoes e Iniciativas Náuticus, Lisbon 2004, ISBN 978-972-8536-04-6 .
Web links
- Pictures and data on the ships of the Porto Santo Line on simplonpc.co.uk, accessed on October 27, 2018
- Photo and data for the first Lobo Marinho on ship-rex.com, accessed on October 27, 2018
- Data and photos about the ship at faergelejet.dk, accessed on November 13, 2018
- M / S Christian IV on faktaomfartyg.se, accessed on November 13, 2018
- Website of the shipping company Porto Santo Line , accessed on October 27, 2018
- Website of the shipping company Creta Cargo Lines , accessed on November 9, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Data and photos about the ship on faergelejet.dk , faergelejet.dk
- ↑ a b c d e f g M / S Christian IV. , Faktaomfartyg.se
- ↑ a b website of the shipping company Creta Cargo Lines, Creta Cargo Lines
- ↑ a b Photo and data on the first Lobo Marinho, ship-rex.com
- ^ Correia, pp. 73ff.
- ^ Website of the shipping company Porto Santo Line
- ↑ Pictures and data on the ships of the Porto Santo Line