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The Prince Ivanhoe was a passenger ship that ran into an underwater obstacle in August 1981 off the Gower Peninsula in south Wales and was lost. The ship was built as a ferry in 1951 and was used between Portsmouth and Ryde on the Isle of Wight .
history
The ship was built under hull number 1452 at the William Denny & Bros shipyard in Dumbarton . The launch took place on February 22, 1951. The ship largely corresponded to a design, of which two units, the Southsea and the Brading , had also been built for ferry traffic to the Isle of Wight in the autumn of 1948 .
The ship was delivered on May 15, 1951 as Shanklin to the British Transport Commission (Southern Region), which it under the flag of the United Kingdom with home port Portsmouth together with the two previously built ships in the ferry service between Portsmouth and Ryde on the Isle of Wight began. After the repeal of the British Transport Commission and the division of responsibilities between various successor organizations on January 1, 1963, the ship came to the British Railways Board . Later the ferry company Sealink emerged, which took over the ferry traffic to the Isle of Wight on January 1, 1979.
The ferry operated between Portsmouth and Ryde until February 1980 and was then a replacement ship in Portsmouth.
In November 1980 the ship was sold to the Firth of Clyde Steam Packet Company and used from May 1981 as Prince Ivanhoe of Waverley Excursions for excursions in the Bristol Channel .
On August 3, 1981, the ship was with around 450 passengers on board on a journey from Mumbles to the Gower Peninsula when it collided with an underwater obstacle. The hull of the ship was torn open to a length of around 18 meters. To prevent the ship from sinking, the skipper put the ship on the nearby beach in front of Port Eynon. Passengers and ship's crew were rescued. Two passengers suffered a heart attack and one of them died.
Attempts to salvage the ship failed. The remains of the wreck were finally removed in the summer of 1984.
Technical data and equipment
The ship was built under license of two two-stroke - eight-cylinder - diesel engine (type: Sulzer 8-MG-32) with 1,417 kW power driven. The engines worked on two propellers and gave the ship a speed of 14 knots .
The ship had four decks . On the lower two decks there were several common rooms for the passengers, which, unlike the two previously built ferries, were no longer divided into two classes, areas for the ship's crew and the engine room . Above the main deck there were open deck areas for the passengers and the wheelhouse . In front of the wheelhouse was a hold for the transport of baggage and supplies for the Isle of Wight. The ship could carry over 1300 passengers.
In the winter of 1966/1967 the ship was modernized and expanded with a savings deck , on which additional seats were set up for passengers.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d Shanklin , Scottish Built Ships - The History of Shipbuilding in Scotland. Retrieved February 10, 2020.
- ^ A b Alistair Deayton, Iain Quinn: Waverley Steam Navigation Company , Amberley Publishing Limited, 2014.
- ↑ Shanklin (3) (1951-1980) , Simplon - The Passenger Ship Website. Retrieved February 10, 2020.
- ↑ To Unfortunate End for the 'Prince Ivanhoe' , Swansea & Port Talbot Docks Retired Section Website. Retrieved February 10, 2020.
- ^ A b Ian Collard: Sealink British Ferries , Amberley Publishing, 2019, ISBN 978-1-4456-9304-0 .
- ↑ a b Laura Clements: The day 400 passengers were rescued from a sinking cruise ship off the Welsh coast , Wales Online, December 28, 2018. Retrieved February 10, 2020.
- ^ Gower Shipwreck - Prince Ivanhoe, Port Eynon , Shipwrecks of the Gower Peninsular. Retrieved February 10, 2020.
- ↑ MV Shanklin - Past and Present , Dover Ferry Photos, December 15, 2019. Retrieved February 10, 2020.
- ^ Peter C. Smith: Offshore Ferry Services of England and Scotland: A Useful Guide to the Shipping Lines and Routes , Pen & Sword Maritime, 2012, ISBN 978-1-84884-665-4 .
- ↑ Ship plan (JPG, 215 kB).
- ^ M / V Shanklin & similar vessels M / V Southsea & M / V Brading . Retrieved February 10, 2020.
