Pomerania (ship)
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The Pomerania was a Polish ferry of the Polferries shipping company put into service in 1978 . In 2014 it was scrapped in Alang .
Construction and technical data
The Pomerania , together with her sister ship Silesia, built a year later, was the first newbuilding of the shipping company, founded in 1976. At the same time, it was the first ferry built in Poland for the Polish shipyard industry. The ship was the first ship of the existing five units class B490 at the Stocznia Szczecińska in Szczecin under the hull number B490 / 01 to set keel and ran May 31, 1977 from the stack . Her length was 127.44 meters, she was 19.46 meters wide and had a draft of 5.42 meters. She was measured with 7414 GT or 3819 NRZ and had a load capacity of 1856 tons. The drive consisted of four six-cylinder diesel engines from the manufacturer Zgoda- Sulzer , with a combined output of 16,800 hp . These acted on two screws and the ship reached a speed of 20.5 knots . The ferry could carry up to 1000 passengers and 277 cars.
history
After the delivery of the ship in July 1978, Polferries used the ship between Poland , Sweden , Finland , Germany and Denmark . From November 1978 the ship was used on the route Swinoujscie - Copenhagen - Felixstowe . From 1979 the ship was used between Helsinki , Nynäshamn and Gdynia . From June 6, 1980 to July 1980, Kalmar Line chartered the ship for operations between Kalmar and Rønne . Kalmar Line went bankrupt in July 1980 and Polferries operated the ship between Gdynia and Karlskrona until 1981 . From July to August 1982 Cotunav chartered the ship for operations from Genoa and Marseille to Tunis . From August 1982 Polferries put the ship back on the regular route. From May 1st, the ship was used between Swinoujscie and Malmö .
On October 14, 1995, a fire broke out on board. From October 1996 to May 1997 the ship was rebuilt in the Remontowa shipyard in Gdansk . In May 1997 the ship was able to start operating between Malmö and Swinoujscie. From June 1, 1999, the ship was used between Swinoujscie and Copenhagen . From June to August 2000 the ship sailed between Swinoujscie and Rønne on Saturday.
In 2001 the shipping company reflagged the ship under the Bahamas flag with the home port Nassau , it remained in the possession of Polferries. From November 2002 to 2003 it was used again on the Świnoujście - Ystad - Copenhagen route.
On January 31, 2005, the ship collided between Swinoujscie and Copenhagen near Falsterbo with the tanker Rio Grande . The ship suffered a minor leak above the waterline. The connection was set on October 31, 2010 and the ship laid up in Swinoujscie .
Sale and last years
On January 17, 2011, the ship was sold to Blue Line International Inc., Rødovre , Denmark, and came under the flag of Panama . In February 2011 the ship was finally named Dalmatia . The ship was rebuilt in Montenegro and used on the Split - Ancona route from April 2011 .
In 2014 the ship was sold to Alang , India, for scrapping. On October 23, 2014 the ship was hauled to Alang and put on the beach the following day.
Sister ships
The ship has four sister ships with the former Silesia , Ankara , Iskenderun and Samsun .
literature
- Jan Piwowoński: Flota spod biało-czerwonej [Fleet under white and red] , [Publisher] Nasza Księgarnia, Warsaw 1989, ISBN 83-10-08902-3 .
- Bruno Bock, Klaus Bock: The red merchant fleets. The merchant ships of the COMECON countries , Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1977, ISBN 3-7822-0143-4 .
- Ambrose Greenway: Comecon merchant ships , Kenneth Mason, Emsworth / Hampshire 4th ed. 1989, ISBN 0-85937-349-5 .
Web links
- History of Pomerania at faktaomfartyg.se , accessed on January 19, 2020
- Pomerania at ferry-site.dk , accessed January 19, 2020
- Prom Pomerania poszedł na żyletki on gospodarkamorska.pl (Polish), accessed on January 19, 2020