Oceanic (ship, 1965)
 The Oceanic 2009 in Yokohama
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The Oceanic was a scheduled passenger and cruise ship built in Italy in 1965. The Oceanic was one of the last ships designed for the transatlantic liner service and was the last surviving Italian representative of this type of ship before it was scrapped. Their importance in shipbuilding is particularly due to the large number of structural innovations that later became standard.
history
The ship was on 29 October 1961 as hull number 1876, the Italian shipyard Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico in Monfalcone to put Kiel . The client was the Home Lines passenger shipping company , which placed its first newbuilding contract with the Oceanic . The ship was designed to commute from Cuxhaven , Le Havre and Southampton to Canada in the summer and to be used on cruises in the winter . When the ship was delivered on March 31, 1965, the rapidly growing passenger air traffic at the beginning of the 1960s had already reduced the number of passengers in liner shipping to such an extent that economic use on the Atlantic route could no longer be guaranteed. Home Lines used the Oceanic instead on cruises from New York to the Caribbean.
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After more than two decades with Home Lines, the shipping company Premier Cruise Line acquired the ship in 1985. The new owners initially named it Royale Oceanic , but after an extensive overhaul from 1986 onwards used it as StarShip Oceanic on short cruises from Port Canaveral .
In 2000, the ship was operated for a short time under the name Big Red Boat I and used for inexpensive trips to the Bahamas . In September of that year the ship was chained in Freeport, Bahamas, because the shipping company was in financial difficulties. After Premier went bankrupt , the Spanish tour operator Pullmantur Cruises took over the ship on December 30, 2000 and gave it back its old name Oceanic . Until the beginning of 2009, the ship remained in service for Pullmantur, which was taken over by Royal Caribbean International in 2006 , on Mediterranean cruises. In March 2009, the Japanese Peace Boat organization acquired the ship and in April it was registered to the owner Japan Grace .
In June 2012, the Oceanic arrived in Zhoushan, China, for scrapping . Since May 2012, chartered by Pullmantur replaced Ocean Dream , the Oceanic as Japanese "Peace Boat".
Equipment and technology
Due to the conception, the Oceanic was designed to carry up to 1600 passengers in two classes on scheduled services. In addition to 230 first class passengers, a further 1,370 people could be carried in 500 cabins in the tourist class. On cruises, the capacity was 1200 people.
In addition to the usual areas, such as two large cinemas, theaters, etc., some areas that were newly designed at the time were available to guests. The swimming pool area, known as the “Lido”, was located in the middle of the top deck, was completely glazed and, depending on the weather conditions, could be completely opened upwards. All promenade decks were also completely glazed. The large dining room again fell out of line due to the lack of load-bearing supports. Unlike before, the lifeboats were arranged far below instead of on one of the highest decks.
The ship was also characterized by another remarkable shipbuilding construction detail. In the passenger area, i.e. over the vast majority of the ship, the decks had no deck jump and no beam bay . They are therefore level and lie parallel to the waterline, a novelty in passenger shipbuilding in the early 1960s.
A large part of the innovations was already considered by the engineers Pieterse of the shipyard Koninklijke Maatschappij "De Schelde" and William Vandesteel when planning a new passenger ship for Aristotle Onassis in 1955 , but only realized at Oceanic .
The Oceanic had a turbomechanical drive system, which consisted of two sets of CRDA-Alfa geared turbines . In this design, the steam turbine and the downstream reduction and reversing gear form a unit. Four Foster-Wheeler water tube boilers with superheaters generated superheated steam at a pressure of 55 bar with which the turbines were operated. The gearbox reduced the speed of the turbine from 5,500 / min to a comparatively high propeller speed of 1150 / min, with which the ship reached a speed of over 27 knots. The ship was powered by three main generator sets, two shaft generators and two emergency power generators.
Web links
- The Oceanic at Faktaomfartyg (Swedish)
- The Oceanic at ssmaritime (English)
Footnotes
- ↑ a b c d e f Ship data on Germanischer Lloyd ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2011 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. , accessed March 3, 2011
- ^ Peter Knego: Scraps Of Shipping News . In: Maritime Matters . June 2012. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
- ^ The Ship . Peace Boat. Retrieved April 25, 2013.
