Olympic Champion

Olympic Champion

Ship data flag  Greece Ship type ferry Callsign SYWD home port Chania Launch 2000

Ship dimensions and crew length 204.0 m ( Lüa ) width 26.12 m Draft Max. 6.75 m measurement 32,694 GT / 11,750 GT

Machine system machine 4 × Wärtsilä -NSD- diesel engines (16V46C) Machine performance 50,400 kW (68,525 hp) Top speed 32.5 kn (60 km / h) propeller 2 × controllable pitch propellers

Transport capacities Load capacity 6,524 dw Permitted number of passengers 1850 passengers (858 beds & 452 Pullman seats)

Others Registration numbers IMO no. 9216028

The Olympic champion is a ferry of ANEK Lines and belongs to the newest class of ferries of the company. She entered service in response to the Ikarus Palace class delivered in 1998 by rival Minoan Lines .

construction

The Olympic champion was yard number 243 in the shipyard in Bruce Landskrona as Kriti III set to Kiel . It was completed by the Fosen shipyard in Rissa as hull number 69. The ship is the fourth in a series of five similar ferries from the same shipyard .

The biggest structural innovations:

• The ship is rounder in the stern area and has a stern ramp with a modern folding method, from which the rear view benefits.
• Further differences are a changed spatial division and panorama windows on the ship's sides.

commitment

After it became known in September 2007 that the rival company Hellenic Seaways would use the new Ariadne ferry on the Piraeus - Chania route, Anek Lines used the Olympic Champion with a similar timetable on the same route. Due to insufficient utilization of the ship, it was used again on the main route Ancona - Patras from March 9, 2008.

fire

On September 28, 2019, a fire broke out on the ferry shortly after leaving the port of Igoumenitsa. The ship was on the Patras - Venice route and had 538 passengers, 74 crew members and 293 vehicles on board. The fire on one of the vehicle decks caused the captain to turn around and drive back to Igoumenitsa. The extinguishing work lasted several hours. Five people were injured, and eleven trucks burned down or were damaged. Fire investigators investigated the assumption that the fire was started by stowaways on the garage deck who might be using a camping stove there.

Sister ship

The ship has a sister ship , the Hellenic Spirit .

Web links

Commons : Olympic Champion  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Information about the ship on the ANEK Lines website
• M / S Olympic Champion.

Individual evidence

1. ^ M / S Rainbow Bell. Retrieved January 6, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Gerd Höhler, Five injured after a fire on a Greek car ferry , in: Badische Zeitung , September 30, 2019 (online at www.badische-zeitung.de )
3. ↑ IMO 9216030
4. ^ M / S Hellenic Spirit. Retrieved January 6, 2018 .