Romanshorn (ship)

Romanshorn

The Romanshorn as it enters the port of Romanshorn.

Ship data flag  Switzerland Ship type ferry class Car and passenger ferry home port Romanshorn , Canton Thurgau Owner from 1996: Schweizerische Bodensee-Schifffahrtsgesellschaft 1958–1996: Schweizerische Bundesbahnen Shipyard Bodan shipyard , Kressbronn on Lake Constance Launch November 6, 1958 Commissioning 1958 Whereabouts in motion

Ship dimensions and crew length 55.50 m ( Lüa ) width 13.44 m displacement 471  t

Machine system machine 2 × 442 kW (2 × 600 PS) Machine performance 884 kW (1,202 hp) propeller 2 × Voith-Schneider propellers

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 560 Vehicle capacity 35 cars or 6 trucks with trailers

The motor ferry Romanshorn is a car ferry on the Friedrichshafen – Romanshorn ferry line . It was the first Swiss motor ferry on Lake Constance and is now the last remaining Lake Constance ferry under the Swiss flag and the oldest ferry on this line.

history

After the resumption of rail transport in 1948, the transport of freight wagons across Lake Constance was dependent on non-motorized barges and the Schussen . To expand the transport capacity, the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) decided to have a ferry built at the Bodan shipyard in Kressbronn on Lake Constance .

The launch of the motor ferry took place on November 6, 1958 in Kressbronn. In contrast to the Schussen , the ferry , which was commissioned as MF Romanshorn in 1958, was a double-ended ferry from the start . Until 1976 the Romanshorn served as a ferry for combined freight wagons and automobiles. In 1976 it was converted into a pure car ferry.

In 1996 the entire SBB ship operation with shipyard and facilities was privatized. The Swiss Bodensee-Schiffahrtsgesellschaft AG (SBS AG) was born. In 2007 the SBB sold the shipping to a private investor group.

The Romanshorn , together with the Euregia and Friedrichshafen, follows the tradition of the railway ferry service on Lake Constance, which opened in 1869. As car ferries, they now operate year-round in scheduled service.

Trivia

The Austrian writer Ulrike Längle wrote the volume of short stories Der Untergang der Romanshorn (1994).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Launched in the SBB archive , accessed on December 6, 2010

literature

• Hugo Loosli: The “Romanshorn” ferry of the Swiss Federal Railways . SLM , Winterthur 1959, OCLC 601782279 Schweizerische Bauzeitung , Volume 77 (1959), Issue 25 (Part 1) (E-Periodica, PDF 8.4 MB) Schweizerische Bauzeitung , Volume 77 (1959), Issue 26 (Part 2) (E. -Periodica, PDF 12.2 MB).

Web links

• The MF Romanshorn on bodenseeschifffahrt.de
• The MF Romanshorn on the side of the Swiss Lake Constance Shipping Company