Schleswig-Holstein (ship, 1972)

**Schleswig-Holstein** p1
Ship data
flag	Germany India;
other ship names	Ramanujam;
Ship type	Ferry, Ro-Ro ship
home port	Mumbai
Shipyard	Husum shipyard
Launch	February 1972
Ship dimensions and crew
length	55.72 m ( Lüa )
width	12.82 m
Draft	Max. 1.61 m
measurement	823 GRT
Machine system
machine	2 MTU engines
Machine ; performance	1,520 PS (1,118 kW)
Top ; speed	12.5 kn (23 km / h)
Transport capacities
Permitted number of passengers	600 (with sun deck) / later: 875
Vehicle capacity	45 cars
Others
Registration ; numbers	IMO 7217846

The Schleswig-Holstein was a combined car and passenger ferry operated by the Wyker steamship shipping company Föhr-Amrum . She was the second ship of this shipping company that sailed under this name.

history

It was built in 1972 at the Husum shipyard in Husum . At the end of February 1972 the hull was launched at the JJ Sietas shipyard in Hamburg-Neuenfelde . On March 21, 1972, Schleswig-Holstein II was baptized by Margot Stoltenberg, the wife of Gerhard Stoltenberg . The first test drive took place on May 6, 1972. Since then she has been sailing between the mainland port of Dagebüll and the islands of Föhr and Amrum . In 1987 it was sold to Shipping Corporation of India and was renamed Ramanujam . From then on she continued under the Indian flag with her home port Mumbai . It was used in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands . She survived the tsunami of 2004 unscathed as she was out on the open sea at the time.

In the summer of 2010, the Ramanujam was offered for sale as scrap in Port Blair . Bids could be submitted until August 26, 2010.

After plans to convert the ship into a floating restaurant failed, it was set to be scrapped by the Metal Scrap Trading Corporation of India .

After the purchase by the tourism department of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, the ship is stranded in a derelict, inoperable condition at Bambooflat, north of Port Blair.

technical description

The Schleswig-Holstein is the prototype of the WDR ferries Nordfriesland (V), Uthlande (IV), Schleswig-Holstein (III), Rungholt and Nordfriesland (VI). The Schleswig-Holstein has undergone several fundamental changes to its commissioning in 1972. Especially after the first modified replica, the Nordfriesland (V), the most important innovations in the shipyard period 1978/1979 were carried over to the prototype. The Schleswig-Holstein was subsequently given two smoke gas posts , a hydraulically operated bow visor instead of two sliding doors and was equipped with 18 life rafts, which increased the number of passengers by 275.

Extending the hull by around ten meters, as with the sister ships Nordfriesland (V) and Uthlande (IV), was out of the question for technical reasons, which finally led to the sale in 1987. The third Schleswig-Holstein was built as a replacement and was put into service in 1988.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Announcement about imminent scrapping in People's View from August 14, 2013 , accessed on February 23, 2014
↑ Tax Payers' Money Squandered | The Phoenix Post . In: The Phoenix Post . September 23, 2017 ( thephoenixpostindia.com [accessed September 2, 2018]).
↑ The defunct MV Ramanujam continues to hog limelight for wrong reasons | The Phoenix Post . In: The Phoenix Post . January 30, 2018 ( thephoenixpostindia.com [accessed September 3, 2018]).

[1] Announcement about imminent scrapping in People's View from August 14, 2013 , accessed on February 23, 2014

[2] Tax Payers' Money Squandered | The Phoenix Post . In: The Phoenix Post . September 23, 2017 ( thephoenixpostindia.com [accessed September 2, 2018]).

[3] The defunct MV Ramanujam continues to hog limelight for wrong reasons | The Phoenix Post . In: The Phoenix Post . January 30, 2018 ( thephoenixpostindia.com [accessed September 3, 2018]).