The Rasmus Tholstrup was the first ship in the world that was planned and rebuilt as a gas tanker .
history
After the end of the Second World War, the increasing demand for transporting liquid gas began to be met by converting existing ships into gas tankers. The first ship of this type, the Natalie O. Warren , began service between Houston and New York in 1947.
After the experience with the converted gas tanker Kosangas , the shipbuilding engineer Martin A. Nielsen planned the first completely new build of a ship exclusively for gas transport in cooperation with the group's own engineering office von Kosangas. As early as 1953, the Danish company ordered the 3.5 million Danish kroner expensive gas tanker from the Swedish Marstrands shipyard. The ship was planned for northern European gas transports between Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark, but was mainly used to supply Guernsey . In addition to the gas tanks, the ship also had a small dry cargo hold in the fore section. The ship was later lengthened and equipped with larger tanks, which allowed it to carry around 1,000 cubic meters of gas. A filling station was built on Guernsey from the old tanks manufactured by Ruhrstahl AG and is still in operation today. In 1979 the ship was sold to a Thai shipping company. Another sale took place in 1986. Both shipping companies used the ship to supply a terminal on the Chao Phrayd River until the 1990s. In 1993 the ship was scrapped in Thailand.
literature
Gas tanker “Rasmus Tholstrup” in Hansa No. 6 of February 6, 1954, Schiffahrts-Verlag “Hansa” C. Schroedter & Co., Hamburg, p. 292.
