Salamis Filoxenia
Salamis Filoxenia in the port of Kos
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The Salamis Filoxenia is a cruise ship used by Salamis Cruise Lines for cruises in the Eastern Mediterranean.
history
The ship was built in 1975 at the Finnish Oy Wärtsilä Ab Turku shipyard as a ferry . The keel was laid on March 6, 1974. The ship was completed on June 30, 1975. Identical sister ships were the Azerbaihzan , Belorussiya , Kareliya and Kazakhstan ships named after the former states of the USSR . It was launched as Gruziya for the Odessa- based Black Sea Shipping Co under the flag of St. Vincent and the Grenadines .
After the end of the USSR, the ship was converted into a cruise ship in 1992. Since 1995 it has been operating as Odessa Sky . In September 1996, modifications to the ship were carried out in Wilhelmshaven. After the shipping company failed to pay this, the ship was arrested and finally auctioned in August 1998. Then the ship came as Club Cruise I back on track. In 1999 it was first renamed Club I and then, also in 1999, Van Gogh .
Since 2006 the ship with its home port Majuro has been sailing under the flag of the Marshall Islands for the British tour operator Travelscope Holidays, which however had to return the ship to the owner at the end of 2007. From the beginning of 2008, the ship was used by Van Gogh Cruises, which took over the ship's world tour already marketed by Travelscope Holidays. At the end of the world tour, however, the ship was arrested in Funchal . The other trips were finally canceled. The tour operator Van Gogh Cruises finally ceased operations at the end of April.
The last owner was the company Maritiem & Leasing Ltd. Registered in the Bahamas, the Dutch company Club Cruise was in charge of the ship management . After Club Cruise also ceased business, the ship was arrested in Greece. On July 7, 2009, it was auctioned off at Salamis Cruise Lines, based in Limassol . Since 2011, the ship has been operating as Salamis Filoxenia with its home port Limassol under the flag of Cyprus .
On September 25, 2014, the ship rescued 345 boat refugees around 50 nautical miles southwest of Cyprus. In the port of Limassol, however, 280 rescued people refused to disembark and demanded further transport to Italy. The ship was only released again after long negotiations.
Collision with tanker off Gibraltar
| Spetses | |
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| Overview of the ship data | |
| Ship type: | Tanker |
| Measurement: | 80,637 GT / 45,963 NRZ |
| Load capacity: | 147.916 DWT |
| Flag: | Greece |
| Home port: | Piraeus |
| IMO number: | 9107710 |
| Call sign: | SXEN |
On September 26, 2004, the Van Gogh collided with the Greek tanker Spetses off Gibraltar at 12.40 p.m. with 492 passengers and 228 crew members on board . The Van Gogh was on the voyage from Gibraltar to Tangier in Morocco . The Spetses , a 1996-built double hull tanker of the Greek shipping company Minerva Maritime was, with about 140,000 tons of crude oil on the way from Egypt Sidi Kerir for oil refinery in the Spanish port of Algeciras . During the collision, in which the Van Gogh with her bow to the starboard side of Spetses collided, there was only material damage. No one was harmed on board the Van Gogh or on board the Spetses . Also, no oil leaked in the collision.
As a result of the collision, the cruise had to be canceled. The damage to the bow of the Van Gogh was then repaired at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Gibraltar.
Technical data and equipment
The ship is propelled by two eighteen- cylinder four - stroke diesel engines that act on two variable pitch propellers . The power of the engines is 5630 each kW . Four diesel generator sets (Wärtsilä 824 TS) are available for power generation. The ship is equipped with a bow thruster .
The ship has ten decks. Passenger facilities are located on nine decks. Salamis Cruise Lines markets the ship with a passenger capacity of 800 people in 255 cabins.
As a ferry, the ship, initially measured at 16,600 GRT and 6,644 NRT, was able to carry 872 passengers. Cabin seats were available for 480 passengers. There was space for 250 cars on the car deck. The crew was 216 people. The range of the ship was 6,500 nautical miles . It could stay at sea for around 14 days.
See also
Web links
- Photos and data about the ship , Fakta om Fartyg (Swedish)
- Deck plan
- Website of a passenger on the "Van Gogh" during the unlucky voyage in September 2004 ( Memento from June 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ References - Cruise Ships. Meyer-Werft, accessed on February 28, 2018 .
- ↑ a b c Belorussija class - Gruzija ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), The Soviet Fleet.
- ↑ a b Technical Information , Salamis Cruise Lines. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
- ^ A b c Van Gogh Cruise Line to Close Doors , Cruise Critic News, April 30, 2008. Retrieved October 29, 2011.
- ↑ Cruise ship 'held to ransom' leaving 400 Britons stranded in Madeira , Daily Mail, April 3, 2008. Retrieved October 29, 2011.
- ↑ Boat refugees have to leave the cruise ship , FAZ, September 26, 2014. Retrieved September 26, 2014.
- ^ Report on the investigation of the collision between the passenger vessel Van Gogh and the tanker Spetses , Government of Gibraltar, Department of Shipping, December 2005 (PDF file, 127 kB). Retrieved March 6, 2018.