The Rügen was a combined motor vehicle and rail ferry that was used between 1972 and 2004 on the Königslinie (Sassnitz - Trelleborg) and on the Sassnitz - Rønne route.
The complaints expired in June 1971 at the Rostock Neptunwerft the stack (hull number 121). After the Sassnitz and Warnemünde , it was the third large ferry built at the shipyard. After it was put into service by the Deutsche Reichsbahn on August 15, 1972, it ran up to six times a day between Sassnitz and Trelleborg . In the summer of 1989 it was replaced by the newly built Sassnitz ferry and was then used on the Sassnitz– Rønne route . From 1993 the ship drove for the German ferry company Ostsee on the same route. From 1999, she served the successor company Scandlines until October 30, 2004. As of November 23, 2004, she was in Rødbyhavn launched . In February 2005 the Rügen was sold to the United Arab Emirates and should be scrapped in India. After arriving in Alang, India, in May 2005, protests broke out over the working conditions in the scrapping yards there . That is why the ship, which was now called Regent I , came to Dubai. In November 2005 it was sold to a Pakistani ship breakers and was named Beauport I . On November 21, 2005 scrapping began at Gadani .
Furnishing
The Rügen was equipped with four elastically positioned, supercharged 3678 kW diesel engines of the type R9V 40/54 from MAN . These were connected in pairs, each with a double reduction gear, which drove a two-shaft controllable pitch propeller system. The engines could be driven from the engine control room as well as from the bridge or the aft wheelhouse. A bow rudder and two bow thrusters were also available. A fin stabilizer - roll damping system reduced the rolling vibrations.
Like the Sassnitz , the Rügen also had two vehicle decks. The lower deck had four tracks with a total length of 480.5 m and could accommodate 42 freight cars. The upper deck had an area of 982 m² and held 73 cars or 12 trucks, each 18 m in length. The rail vehicles were moved in and out via a tailgate, the road vehicles drove in and out via a ramp at the stern and a gate on the starboard side.
In total, the ferry was approved for 1466 passengers. The passenger areas offered 485 seats, and 58 passengers could live in two-bed cabins. On board there was a dining salon, a cafeteria, a reading and conference room, a 1st class salon, several verandas and an ambulance for the medical care of passengers and crew.
literature
Neumann, Strobel: From the cutter to the container ship . VEB Verlag Technik, Berlin, 1981, page 37
Dudszus, Köpcke: The great 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. 238-239.
Rieger: The ships of the GDR . GeraMond Verlag GmbH, Munich, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7654-7713-3 , page 100
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