The Roland von Bremen was a German seaside resort ship that was used by the shipping company Bremer Seebäderdienst D. Oltmann & Co. from 1966 to 1984 for passenger traffic from Bremen and Bremerhaven to Helgoland .
history
The ship was built in 1939 as a refrigerated ship at the Helsingörs Jernskips og Maskinbyggeri A / S shipyard in Copenhagen and went into service as an Indian reefer for the shipping company Rederiet Ocean A / S from Esbjerg . In 1941 it was sold to the Comision Administrada de la Flota Mercante del Estado shipping company in Buenos Aires and renamed Rio Gallegos . Five years later, in 1945, this shipping company exercised its contractually agreed right of return and sold the ship back to Rederiet Ocean A / S, which used it again under its original name.
After the ship was laid up in Sonderborg for a short time in 1965 , the same year it was converted into a seaside resort ship at the T. Mariotti shipyard in Genoa . From 1966 the former refrigerated ship was used under the name Roland von Bremen by the shipping company Bremer Seebäderdienst D. Oltmann & Co. in bathing traffic from Bremen and Bremerhaven to Helgoland. In this liner service, which was limited to the summer season, the ship only operated the route from Bremerhaven's Columbuskaje to Helgoland. In addition, there was a rail feeder from Bremen to the Columbusbahnhof in Bremerhaven, where you could transfer directly from the train to the ship. The Roland von Bremen was in service on this route until the end of the 1984 season.
For the 1971 season, an additional sundeck was installed over part of the rear sundeck (as an extension of the boat deck to the rear), which increased the deckchair capacity, since deckchairs were also set up on the now covered part of the rear sundeck as before.
In 1974 there was an incident in which the Roland von Bremen got into mighty cross lakes . One passenger was killed and 30 injured.
The Roland of Bremen was all in Helgoland resorts service vessels used the with the highest possible number of passengers (1900), followed by the arms of Hamburg 1800 passengers.
