Saint Mary II

Saint Mary II

On November 25, 2017 in Oberbillig.

Ship data flag  Germany Ship type car ferry home port Top cheap Owner Oberbillig municipality Shipyard Formstaal GmbH & Co.KG, Stralsund Launch 20 October 2017 splashdown Whereabouts in service from November 25, 2017

Ship dimensions and crew length 28 m ( Lüa ) width 8.60 m Draft Max. 0.50 / 0.85 m

Machine system machine electric Machine performance 80 kW (109 PS) propeller 4 × rudder propellers

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 45 Vehicle capacity 6 cars

Others Registration numbers ENI no. 04813080

Others route Oberbillig - Wasserbillig

The Sankta Maria II ferry is the first purely electrically powered ferry on the Moselle . It runs between Wasserbillig and Oberbillig and replaces the old Sankta Maria ferry . This should save around 14,000 liters of diesel fuel annually.

construction

The ferry has a hull length of 17 meters and is 8.60 meters wide. The access flaps are each 5.50 meters long. The load capacity is given as 25 tons. The deck is designed for six passenger cars on 2 lanes each 2.5 meters wide, as well as 45 people and 25 bicycles. It is driven by four electrically driven rudder propellers, each with 27  HP . The power required for propulsion comes from the drive batteries, which are charged overnight with shore power (approx. 6 hours charging time). The battery capacity is designed for 13 hours of ferry operation + another 13 hours as security.

The 15 solar modules installed on board only generate electricity for the second (separate) circuit, which is required for lighting, radio, air conditioning, etc. The solar modules each 540 Wp generate a total of 5.4 kWp for recharging the second circuit during the day. Contrary to the original plan, significantly better batteries could be installed during the construction period, which means that 2 independent battery blocks, each made up of 12 lithium polymer batteries, each 10.5 kWh are available. The service life of the drive batteries is specified with approx. 5,000 charging cycles, which corresponds to a service life of approx. 12 years.

Transport to the Moselle

After six months of construction, the ferry was launched into the water with a crane in Stralsund on October 20, 2017 . Test drives on the Strelasund took place from October 20th to 28th . The ship was then loaded onto a barge and transported to Mertert . The transport went via the Oder-Havel Canal , the Untere Havel Waterway , the Elbe-Havel Canal , the Mittelland Canal , the Dortmund-Ems Canal , the Rhine-Herne Canal and the Ruhr to the Rhine (Ruhr estuary at Duisburg ).

From there it went on up the Rhine to Koblenz , there into the Moselle and on to Mertert, where the Sankta Maria II was unloaded and launched into the water. From there to Oberbillig, the ferry drove on its own keel. On November 25, 2017, the ferry was christened in Oberbillig by the Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume of Luxembourg .

business

In the period from January 1 to October 30, 2018, 61,000 car crossings and 145,000 passenger crossings were carried out with the ferry.

Web links

Commons : Sankta Maria II  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Pictures and data on the ship , accessed on November 30, 2018.
• Report and video , accessed November 30, 2018.
• In autumn the electric ferry will arrive between Oberbillig and Wasserbillig , accessed on November 30, 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Images and data on Saint Mary II
2. ^ Report on the baptism of the ferry
3. ↑ Friedhelm Knopp: For a year with electricity over the river , Volksfreund.de, December 17, 2018