Petersburg (ship)
,_S%C3%A8te_02.jpg) As Odeep One in November 2019 in Sète
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The Petersburg (current name Odeep One ) is a former ferry ship used to transport rail and road vehicles as well as passengers. Under the name Mukran , it was the first railway ferry built for the Mukran – Klaipėda ferry route and used on this route . The ferry, built in 1986 at the Mathias Thesen shipyard in Wismar , was the largest two-deck railway ferry in the world when it was commissioned. After a renovation, it drove under the name Petersburg from 1995 to 2019 in the Baltic Sea region . Under its new name Odeep One , it is to be used in the future to produce drinking water.
history
The Mukran was delivered to VEB Deutfracht Seereederei on August 27, 1986 and started sailing under the GDR flag with her home port of Rostock . She was the type ship of the " EGF-321 " series, which was intended to be used for rail freight transport on the Mukran – Klaipėda ferry route. As a result of the political change in the GDR and the end of the Cold War , only five of the planned six ships were built. Sister ships were the ferries Klaipėda (today Aziz Express ), Greifswald , Vilnius and Kaunas . The sixth ferry (canceled in June 1988) was supposed to operate under the name Wismar . At times it was considered to build a seventh ferry under the name German-Soviet Friendship .
The Mukran was operated by VEB Deutfracht / Seereederei Rostock until 1990 and then by its successor Deutsche Seereederei Rostock. She sailed under the German flag with her home port of Rostock. In 1994 she was registered for the Euroseabridge shipping company Rostock. After extensive renovation work and a general overhaul in 1995 at the Gdańsk Shiprepair Yard in Gdansk , where the ship was also converted for the transport of road vehicles and a larger number of passengers, the ferry was sold to the MS Petersburg shipping company Rostock and renamed in Petersburg . In the same year she was used on the first German ferry line between Travemünde and Saint Petersburg .
At the beginning of 1996, the Petersburg was chartered for three trips with military equipment from Emden to Croatia . From 1997 the ship sailed under the flag of Liberia with home port Monrovia . In 1999 she drove another trip with military equipment to Thessaloniki (Greece) for the KFOR troops. In the following years the ship was used on various ferry lines in the Baltic Sea region, for example from Klaipėda to Travemünde, Mukran and Kiel . From 2003 to 2009 it ran for Scandlines, initially between Karlshamn and Libau and from 2005 from Windau to Karlshamn and Nynäshamn . In early 2009 the ferry in Szczecin launched .
From November 26, 2010, the ship was used by Blacksea Ferry and Investments and OOO Baltijskij Flot on the Ust-Luga - Pillau and Ust-Luga - Sassnitz routes. From October 2010 it sailed under the Russian flag with home port Saint Petersburg.
From July to October 2014, the Petersburg was used to supply the Crimea between Novorossiysk and Kerch in the Black Sea . From October 28, 2014, it was used on the Novorossiysk - Sevastopol route. From March 2015 to May 2016 she was again in use between Ust-Luga and Pillau, from where she also called at the ports of Sassnitz and Klaipėda sporadically. In June 2018 she was put on a chain in Tallinn for outstanding payments (ship arrest). In the same year the name of the ship was written “Петербург” in Cyrillic.
In March 2019 the ship was sold to OFW Ships. The ship, renamed Odeep One and brought under the Panamanian flag , is to be used in future to produce drinking water from seawater. To this end, it was extensively rebuilt at the Remontowa shipyard in Gdańsk by October 2019. According to the provider, the pumping takes place from a depth of around 300 meters. On board, the water is desalinated and purified, then landed in Sète and sold worldwide.
Furnishing
The Mukran was designed as a pure goods ferry. The overall length is more than 190 meters, the length between the perpendiculars 173 meters, the width 28 meters and the draft 7.20 meters. The side height is 15.2 meters. Before the conversion, the measurement was given as 22,400 GRT . The ship is divided into twelve watertight compartments by eleven transverse bulkheads extending from the bottom of the ship to the main deck .
Four diesel engines with a total output of 10,592 kW drive two controllable pitch propellers via a gearbox . The ship reaches a cruising speed of 16 knots . Two cross-thrust steering systems at the bow with 740 kW each and one at the stern with 370 kW of power ensure good maneuverability.
There are five Russian broad gauge tracks on each of the two vehicle decks , which means that freight capacity is 35 percent higher than that of standard gauge wagons. The total usable track length was 1,539 meters. With the length of a standard car of 14.73 meters, 103 freight cars can be carried. There are 49 wagons on the main deck and 54 on the partially open upper deck.
Before the conversion, both decks were loaded and unloaded exclusively via landside double-decker bridges, as there are no on-board lifting platforms on the ship. An automatic heel compensation system located amidships ensures a relatively stable position of the ship during the loading process and serves to dampen rolling movements at sea . The tailgate of the single-end ferry is 18.4 m wide and 5.9 m high and is hoisted up to 6 m above the upper deck for loading and unloading. The ferry must turn around to moor in the port area and reverse to the ferry bridge. During the renovation work in 1995, the ship was also given a stern ramp, through which the ferry can be used flexibly and independently of facilities on land. Since then, up to 308 cars or 97 trucks can be transported.
Single cabins are available for the 42-man crew that used to be 42 and 36 since the conversion. Originally, twelve passengers could be carried in six two-man cabins. Accommodation for 140 passengers was created during the renovation.
Picture gallery
The Mukran (1986)
The Petersburg (2010)
The Petersburg in Ust-Luga from behind
literature
- Alfred Dudszus, Alfred Köpcke: The big book of ship types. Steam ships, motor ships, marine technology from the beginnings of machine-driven ships to the present day. transpress Pietsch, Berlin Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-344-00374-7 , pp. 208-209.
- Fritz Treichel: The freight railway ferry line Mukran - Memel. In: Pomerania. Journal of Culture and History. ISSN 0032-4167 , No. 4, 1988, p. 14f.
- Wolfgang Klietz: Baltic ferries in the Cold War. Ch. Links Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86153-673-4
Web links
- Mukran at Fakta om Fartyg (Swedish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Kuhlmann: Deutsche Reichsbahn secret: poison trains, military transports, secret projects, GeraMond, 2007, ISBN 3-86245-187-9 , p. 22.
- ^ Petersburg ferry on the Ust-Luga - Baltijsk line .
- ↑ Вице-премьеры устроили публичную "порку" в Усть-Луге - Снова про каботаж - 20 июня 2011 ( Memento from October 7, 2011 on the Internet archive .)
- ↑ Открыт новый паромный маршрут Новороссийск - Севастополь - Новороссийск. Первый рейс 28 октября (Russian).
- ↑ Российский грузовой паром Petersburg арестовали в порту Таллина
- ↑ Photo from the bow in July 2018
- ↑ Russian Maritime Register of Shipping
- ^ OFW Ships .
- ↑ Gaël Cogné: Ocean Fresh Water: l'Odeep One va entrer en flotte et rejoindre Sète. Mer et Marine, October 8, 2019, accessed January 7, 2020 (French).
- ↑ Michael Koefoed-Hansen: Petersburg ombygget til dybhavsvand flaske skib. Færgenyt, November 24, 2019, accessed January 7, 2020 (Danish).
- ↑ Elena Louazon: L'eau de mer de Sète rendue potable et vendue en bouteille. France Bleu, December 6, 2019, accessed January 7, 2020 (French).