Rogalin (ship)
 The Rogalin off Nynäshamn, May 2002
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The Rogalin was a ferry of the Polish shipping company Polferries put into service in 1972 under the name Aallotar , which was used on various routes to East Germany , among other things . The Rogalin had an eventful period of service under Polferries, which lasted from 1978 until the ship was decommissioned in 2003. In the same year the ferry was sold to India for scrapping , where demolition work began in spring 2004.
history
Silja Line
The Aallotar was originally commissioned by the Finnish shipping company Siljavarustamo in the Dubegion-Normandie shipyard in Nantes on January 3, 1970 and assigned to Finska Ångfartygs Ab (FÅA, also known as Effoa ) the following month . On March 29, 1971, the keel was laid under hull number 126, followed by the launch on July 23, 1971. On February 17, 1972, the ship could be delivered to the shipping company.
The Aallotar had 450 cabins when it was delivered, most of which had their own bathroom. In addition to various dining options, the public areas included a nightclub, a discotheque, an English pub and a swimming pool and sauna.
Following the ferry trip to Helsinki with stops in London , Amsterdam and Hamburg for advertising purposes, the Silja Line ship began operating between Helsinki and Stockholm . In addition to the usual ferry service, the Aallotar has also been chartered out several times for special trips. In May 1972 the ship was used for an Insurance Europe meeting off the coast of Helsinki, followed by a political conference off the Porkkala peninsula under the direction of Urho Kekkonen in August 1973.
In addition to the main route from Helsinki to Stockholm, the Aallotar was temporarily used on other routes, including from Turku to Norrtälje in 1975 and 1976. From September 1976, the ship was decommissioned in Turku, before it was in port from March to May 1977 as a barge von Haugesund found new use. Then the ferry between Turku and Stockholm came into active use.
From September 1977 the Polish Polska Zegluga Baltycka (Polferries) chartered the ship for the service between Helsinki and Gdansk . In May 1978 the Aallotar finally became the property of this shipping company.
Polferries
Under the new name Rogalin , the ferry continued the service between Helsinki and Gdansk. In September 1979 the ship collided with the Dutch tanker Coral Rubrum during a voyage to Danzig and suffered damage on the starboard side.
From May 1982 the Rogalin was in use between Świnoujście , Copenhagen and Travemünde . Between May and September 1985, the ship operated under the charter of the Icelandic shipping company Faraskip as Edda between Reykjavík and Bremerhaven . In addition, the ferry made some special trips for Polferries, including a cruise from Stettin to London at the turn of the year 1985/1986.
The Rogalin gained notoriety in the German-speaking countries in the 1980s due to the reports on Polish immigrants who arrived in Travemünde in large numbers on the Rogalin and the passenger ship Stefan Batory .
During her service life, the Rogalin was chartered three times to the shipping company Swansea-Cork Trading for the service between Swansea and Cork : From April to December 1987 under the name Celtic Pride , from April to December 1988 under her old name and the last time from March to November 1992 again as Celtic Pride .
In June 1997 the Rogalin switched to the route from Danzig to Nynäshamn . In 1999 the ship previously registered in Poland was flagged out to the Bahamas for cost reasons .
On July 9, 2001, the Rogalin hit the headlines again when she was forced to turn around and enter international waters during a crossing in Swedish waters due to an order from the Polish government. 25 kilometers from Visby , agents of the Polish secret service were roped onto the ship from a helicopter and arrested the politician Zbigniew Farmus, who was traveling on board as a passenger and who was working as an assistant to the Polish Deputy Defense Minister Romuald Szeremietiew. Farmus was accused of bribery and betraying military secret information.
The ferry has been operating between Ystad and Świnoujście since November 2002 , before making its last crossing on July 16 the following year. In October 2003 the ship went to a demolition yard based in Alang , India , where it arrived on November 18. The demolition work on the Rogalin began in February 2004.
Sister ship
The sister ship of the Rogalin was the Svea Regina , which was also commissioned in 1972 , which changed owner and name several times in the course of her career and was also used as a cruise ship . The ferry arrived in April 2005 as a Safa like the Rogalin for demolition in Alang.
Web links
- the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
- the ship on ferry-site.dk (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Travel News. In: The time . September 10, 1971. Retrieved March 20, 2019 .
- ^ Micke Asklander: M / S AALLOTAR. In: faktaomfartyg.se. Retrieved March 20, 2019 (Swedish).
- ↑ "Separating the wheat from the chaff". In: Der Spiegel . September 15, 1986, Retrieved March 20, 2019 .
- ^ Klaus Bachmann: Poland: arrest on the high seas. In: Der Tagesspiegel . July 16, 2001. Retrieved March 20, 2019 .
- ^ Micke Asklander: M / S SVEA REGINA. In: faktaomfartyg.se. Retrieved March 20, 2019 (Swedish).