Sørøy (ship, 1949)
| Sørøy | |
|---|---|
| Technical specifications | |
| Ship type: | Mail and passenger ship |
| Purpose: | Transportation of people and cargo |
| Measurement: | 699 GT |
| Machine: | 1 5-cylinder Atlas Diesel with an output of 5850 kW |
| Shipping company: | Finnmark Fylkesrederi (FFR) |
| Length (o.a.): | 46.00 m |
| Width (above): | 8.50 m |
| Draft: | 3.45 m |
| Cruising speed: | 12 knots |
| Passenger Capacity: | 175 |
| Passenger berths in cabins: | 58 |
| Passenger decks | 3 |
| Crew size: | nB |
| Construction year: | 1949 |
| Shipyard: | Trosvik Mekaniske Verksted in Brevik |
| Flag: | Norway |
| Whereabouts | Used as a training ship since 1966, first in Norway, from 2001 in Dubai |
The motor ship Sørøy was a combined cargo and passenger ship, which was used by the shipping company Finnmark Fylkesrederi og Ruteselskap (FFR) on the Hurtigruten .
The ship was built in 1949 with hull number 63 at the Trosvik Mekaniske Verksted shipyard in Brevik , Norway , and served several times as a replacement ship on the Hurtigruten along the coast of Norway until 1966.
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The ship was named after Norway's third largest island, Sørøya (German "South Island"). It lies off the coast of the Norwegian Fylke Finnmark , far above the Arctic Circle.
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In 1946, the Hammerfest shipping company Finnmark Fylkesrederi og Ruteselskap signed a contract with the Trosvik mekaniske Verksted shipyard for the construction of two identical sister ships . The first ship, the Sørøy , was delivered to the shipping company in 1949, the Alta a year later. The ships were to be used as combined cargo and passenger ferries on different routes along the coast of Finnmark in northwest Norway.
Due to an acute shortage of ship capacities after the end of the Second World War, the Sørøy was chartered from 1950 to 1960 to the shipping companies Det Nordenfjeldske Dampskibsselskab (NFDS) based in Trondheim and the shipping company Det Bergenske Dampskibsselskab (BDS) based in Bergen (Norway) , the use the ship in liner service on the Hurtigruten. In addition, it was occasionally used on the route to Svalbard in the summer months .
In 1962 the ship came back into the Hurtigruten, this time as a replacement for the Sanct Svithun , which sank between Trondheim and Rørvik on October 21, 1962 . After the new build Kong Olav was delivered to Det Stavangerske Dampskibsselskab in 1965 , Sørøy returned to the Hammerfest - Bodø route for a few months . Increasing individual traffic, as well as the expansion of roads, bridges and airfields, however, caused the freight and passenger numbers on the ferry connection to fall sharply, so that the ship was sold in December 1965.
Since then it has been used as a training ship under changing owners and names:
- 1966–1979 Skule , home port Trondheim
- 1979–1991 Østfold , home port Østfold
- 1991–2003 Glommen , home port Østfold
- since 2003 RTS Sindbad , home port Dubai