Northern Lights (ship, 1973)
The Northern Lights was a RoPax - ferry the Sietas type 79, the first in the Baltic Sea , then in the North Sea and most recently in the South drove.
Construction and technical data
The ship was on March 8, 1973 with the hull number 663 at the JJ Sietas shipyard in Neuenfelde from the stack . The delivery to Peter Deilmann Reederei GmbH & Co. KG , founded by Peter Deilmann in Lübeck in 1972 and based in Neustadt in Holstein since 1973, took place on May 6, 1973. The ship was given the LR no. (since 1987 IMO no. ) 7315612.
It was 68.90 m long ( L.ü.a. , 60.00 m between the perpendiculars) and 12.00 m wide (on the frame ). The draft was 3.00 m, the height to the upper deck 7.10 m and 4.30 m to the vehicle deck. Up to 50 cars could be transported. The ship was measured with 999 GRT and 450 NRT and had a deadweight of 511 tons . The machinery consisted of two Burmeister & Wain Alpha 12-cylinder four-stroke diesel engines of the type 12 V 23 HU. They developed 2,208 kW at 800 rpm and enabled a speed of 16.5 knots at 375 rpm via two controllable pitch propellers . The ship was equipped with a bow thruster with an output of 184 kW. It had neither cranes nor derricks or hatches . For loading and unloading cars, it had a stern gate with a 2.55 m wide and 5.94 m long ramp and a starboard side gate 3.00 m high and 2.55 m wide. The crew numbered 32 men. The passenger capacity was 600 people.
history
Baltic Sea and North Sea
With the Nordlicht , Deilmann opened the ferry service from Neustadt to Rønne on the Danish island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea in May 1973 . This company was less successful than the butter and cruises that Deilmann began to operate with other ships and was discontinued in late September 1975. The Nordlicht was sold in 1976 to the AG "Ems" Schiffahrts KG in Emden . This used the ship until 1985 in the ferry service between Emden and Borkum . In 1984 the ship sailed a season on a bareboat charter for the Harle shipping company B. Warrings in Harlesiel / Carolinensiel .
South seas
In 1985 the Nordlicht was sold to the Compagnie Maritime des Iles Sous Le Vent in Papeete on Tahiti in French Polynesia , which operated the ship through its subsidiary "Raromatai-Ferry", which was founded for this purpose, in the liner service from Papeete to the Islands under the Wind ( French: Iles Sous Le Vent) intended to operate in the Society Islands . To do this, she had the ship rebuilt from January 22nd, 1985 at the shipyard and machine factory Cassens GmbH in Emden: the stern gate with its ramp was removed, 52 passenger compartments were built into the previous vehicle deck, the superstructures were enlarged and the upper deck was given a permanent sun protection roof. The ship could now carry 650 passengers. After the conversion, the ship, now called Raromatai-Ferry , was measured at 999 GRT and 426 NRT, and the carrying capacity was slightly reduced to 496 t. The delivery to the new owners took place on March 18, 1985, and the Raromatai-Ferry now regularly operated the route Papeete- Huahine - Raiatea - Taha'a - Bora Bora , i.e. H. the four larger Îles sous le Vent (Windward Islands) of the Society Islands in French Polynesia. A change of ownership in 1991 to the Compagnie Maritime Raromatai Nui in Pirae (Tahiti) initially did not change anything.
The End
Financial difficulties led in 1997 to the fact that the ship in Papeete launched was. It was there for years without a new user being found. In 2000, the port administration of Papeete applied for the sinking of the now very neglected ship off the coast, but this did not happen. On April 2, 2001, the ship's approval was suspended because inspections were not carried out. Finally, on April 15, 2003, it was towed into the open sea and sunk by the Société Palacz by demolition near the island of Moorea , northwest of Papeete.
Web links
- Data sheet for the ship, with photos of the Northern Lights , the Raromatai Ferry and the sinking (PDF; 703 kB)
- Postcard photo of the Northern Lights, at Peter Deilmann's German cruise tradition
- Raromatai-Ferry, at marine-connector
Footnotes
- ^ Postcard of the northern lights from this time
- ↑ Your call sign was FVVS.
- ↑ SA Daniel Palazc: Travaux maritimes> Sabordage de navire: short series of photos about the sinking of the ship ( memento of the original dated December 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ The report in Marine News that the Raromatai Ferry was sunk in June 2001 is incorrect ( Marine News, Journal of the World Ship Society, Volume 66, Number 12, December 2012, Demolitions, p. 758)
