Nils Holgersson (ship, 1962)
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The Nils Holgersson , named after the fairy tale of the same name " Little Nils Holgersson's wonderful journey with the wild geese " by Selma Lagerlöf , was a ferry operated by the German ferry company TT-Linie .
history
With the establishment of the shipping company TT-Linie (at that time still in German spelling) the ferry service between Travemünde and Trelleborg was opened on March 28, 1962 with the Nils Holgersson .
The ship was built in 1961 and 1962 by the Hanseatic shipyard in Hamburg-Harburg and taken over by the shipping company on March 26, 1962. In the following years the ferry between Travemünde and Trelleborg was in use. On December 1, 1966, it was given the new name Gösta Berling , as a new building was to be christened Nils Holgersson . Half a year later, on June 3, 1967, the mission in the Baltic Sea ended for the time being and the ship was chartered to France , where it was used by a French shipping company as an escapade between Toulon and Porto Torres during the summer . From October 1967 to February 1968 the ferry, again called Gösta Berling , was in Travemünde and was converted in February 1968 at the Flender shipyard in Lübeck . After a brief mission between Travemünde and Trelleborg in March 1968, the ship was used as an escapade in the Mediterranean, as in the previous year . In the winter of 1968/1969 the ferry was on the way between Miami and San Juan and Saint Thomas , from March 1969 under the new name Sardaigne on a Swedish charter between Marseille , Palma de Mallorca and Porto Torres. In the summer months from 1970 to 1972 the ferry ran as an escapade from Toulon to Sardinia . In the winter of 1971/1972, trips between Miami, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic were to take place again. The ship was arrested in Miami for several months due to missing papers.
In October 1972, Flender-Werft converted the ship to cruise standards. During the following winter months, the ferry served the Travemünde – Trelleborg route again. From May 7, 1973 she was registered in Cyprus and received the name Gösta Berling back. That year, the TT line introduced a summer liner service between Travemünde, Rønne , Danzig and Leningrad , on which the Gösta Berling operated . There were also short cruises and shopping trips in the Baltic Sea.
In 1975 the TT line planned a liner service between Saint-Malo and Southampton . For advertising reasons, the ferry was given the new name Mary Poppins . As the British and French dockworkers refused, among FOC cleared moving vessel, but this was never this mission and the ship returned to Leningrad used. In addition, further trips followed as a “shopping cruise ship” in the Baltic Sea, and the Mary Poppins made trips to Copenhagen three times a week . At the turn of the year 1975/1976 the ship went to Åndalsnes in Norway . A plastic cross-country ski run was laid out in the car deck , on which the passengers could practice cross-country skiing in advance . The idea of using the ferry for pilgrimages in the Red Sea had to be discarded because the air conditioning of the ship was not up to the local conditions .
On November 20, 1976, the TT line sold the ship to Piraeus to a Greek shipowner. He started using the ship in 1977 under the name Samania in the ferry service between Piraeus, Tinos , Samos , Syros and Ikaria . Another change of ownership followed in 1991. On November 4, 1996, the Samania collided near Samos with the Anthipoploiarhos , a patrol boat of the Greek Navy . While the ferry was only damaged at the bow , the patrol boat sank. Four people were killed in the accident. The Samania was repaired, but remained as a trailer in front of Eleusis .
On June 28, 2000 the ferry left its berth and was towed to India for scrapping . The ship was renamed Sama 1 especially for this last voyage . It reached Alang on July 21, 2000, where it was subsequently canceled.
technology
The Nils Holgersson was 110.01 meters long and 15.27 meters wide. The maximum draft was 4.48 m. The drive consisted of two diesel engines with twelve cylinders each , which together produced 5,296 kW and enabled the ferry to reach a top speed of 19.0 knots.
The ship, measured at 3,843 GRT , offered space for 850 passengers and 145 cars , with vehicles being loaded exclusively via a stern ramp. With a load capacity of 810 t, 200 loading meters were available.
Footnotes
- ↑ a b c d e f g An eventful story: the life of Nils Holgersson I. (No longer available online.) In: TT-Line. Archived from the original on April 27, 2014 ; Retrieved April 16, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d e f g M / S Nils Holgersson (1962). In: Facta om Fartyg. Retrieved April 16, 2014 (Swedish).
- ↑ One ship - eight names: Nils Holgersson. (No longer available online.) In: TT-Line. Archived from the original on April 27, 2014 ; Retrieved April 16, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
