Scylla (shipping company)

Scylla AG
legal form	Corporation
founding	3rd September 1973
Seat	Baar , Switzerland
management	André Reitsma ( Chairman of the Board of Directors ) Andreas Wandinger (Management)
Branch	Passenger shipping
Website	www.scylla.ch

The Alina on the Rhine in front of the Hohenzollern Bridge in Cologne (2011)

The Swiss Diamond on the Rhine in front of the Kennedy Bridge in Bonn (2011)

The Scylla AG is a Swiss shipping company based in Baar . The ships are used in the time charter by various tour operators ( Phoenix , 1AVista, Tauck Tours and others). Scylla provides the nautical and service staff. It is (as of May 2020) owned by 31 cabin passenger ships (also known as river cruise ships for tourists).

Company history

Scylla AG was founded on September 3, 1973 as a family company under the name Scylla Tours AG. In autumn 2010 the name was changed to Scylla AG. In October 1973 the first ship, the Scylla , was converted from a tug to a passenger ship. She started as a river cruise ship in Central Europe in March 1974 . In March 1978 the second ship, the Calypso , was added. As of May 2020, the shipping company had 31 river cruise ships, most of which sail under the Swiss flag.

The fleet

Current ships

The dimensions of the ships are adapted to the respective conditions on the waterways such as low bridge clearance heights and lock dimensions . Due to the shallow draft of the ships, rivers with low water levels can also be navigated.

Surname	image	Construction year	Length (m)	Width (m)	Draft (m)	Horsepower)	crew	Passengers
Junker Jörg		1991	94.80	11.00			26th	112
Swiss Pearl		1993	110	11.40	1.30	1500	32	123
Swiss Crystal		1995	101.30	11.40	1.30	1500	31	125
Swiss Diamond		1996	101.30	11.40	1.30	1500	31	123
Swiss Crown		2000	110	11.40	1.50	1800	36	154
Swiss Ruby		2002	85	10.60	1.20	1440	23	88
Swiss Corona		2004	110	11.40	1.50	2130	36	155
Swiss Gloria		2005	110	11.40	1.50	2130	36	153
Swiss Emerald		2006	110	11.40	1.50	2130	36	124
Swiss tiara		2006	110	11.40	1.50	2130	36	153
Swiss Sapphire		2008	110	11.40	1.50	2130	36	124
esprit		2010	110	11.40	1.50	2130	36	118
Alina		2011	135	11.45	1.60	2130	45	220
Treasures		2011	110	11.40	1.50	2130	36	124
Amelia		2012	135	11.45	1.60	2130	45	220
Lord Byron		2012	110	11.45	1.50	2130	-	148
Edelweiss		2013	110	11.45	1.50	2130	-	180
Inspire		2014	135	11.45	1.50	2130	-	142
Savor		2014	135	11.45	1.50	2130	-	142
Jane Austen		2015	110	11.45	1.50	2130	-	148
Grace		2016	135	11.45	1.60	2130	42	142
Joy		2016	135	11.45	1.60	2130	42	142
Thomas Hardy		2016	135	11.45	1.50	2130	44	176
Emily Brontë		2016	135	11.45	1.50	2130	44	176
Robert Burns		2017	135	11.45	1.50	2130	44	176
Oscar Wilde		2017	135	11.45	1.50	2130	44	176
NickoVISION		2018	135	11.45	2.10		54	210
William Wordsworth		2018	135	11.45	1.50	2130	44	176
George Eliot		2019	110	11.45	1.50		36	140
Anna Katharina		2019	135	11.40	1.50	2130	44	182

• All information according to the fleet overview on the Scylla AG website.

Previous ships

Surname	Construction year	sale	Buyers	comment
Scylla	1973	1986	French shipping company	was converted from a tugboat to a passenger ship in 1973
Calypso	1978	1994	Dutch shipping company
Olympia	1984	2007	Piz Olympia	renamed Venezia (1997), changed to the Luxembourg flag (1999), renamed Thurgau (2006), renamed Olympia (2007)
Switzerland	1988	2003	River Tours AG	Rating as the only 4-star ship by Stiftung Warentest (1991)
Switzerland II	1991	2007	SWITZERLAND II BV	first passenger ship on the Main-Danube Canal (1992)
Swiss Coral	1998	2011	Twerenbold Reisen AG	operates under the name Excellence Coral
Aurelia	2007		Rijfers Nautical Management BV	operates under the name Aurelia I.

Driving routes

Scylla AG ships use the following waterways and shipping areas, among others:

• Danube to Budapest or to the Black Sea
• Rhone and Saône
• Rhine Basel - Amsterdam
• Main and Moselle
• in Holland and Flanders
• Dortmund-Ems Canal , Mittelland Canal , Elbe Lateral Canal
• Elbe and Vltava to Prague
• from the Elbe to Potsdam and Berlin via the Elbe-Havel Canal and the Untere Havel Waterway
• from Potsdam and Berlin to the Baltic coast via the Havel , the Havel-Oder waterway and the Oder to Stralsund and Rügen

Incidents

On December 26, 2017, the Swiss Crystal collided with a bridge pillar of the A 42 near Duisburg. 25 people were injured, the majority of them slightly.

At around 2 a.m. on September 19, 2019, the Swiss Crown rammed the railway bridge in Konz on the Moselle above Trier . The roof of the wheelhouse was torn down.

On December 19, 2019, the MS Thurgau Prestige collided head- on with a tanker on the Rhine near Speyer . Around 20 people were injured.

Web links

Commons : Scylla AG  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Sources and individual references

• Scylla AG is renaming itself. In: Schiffreisen intern. Edition 21/2010, p. 10.

1. ↑ Scylla AG , Internet excerpt, Commercial Register of the Canton of Zug, accessed on May 19, 2020.
2. ^ Scylla Home. In: www.scylla.ch. Scylla AG, accessed on May 22, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Scylla AG is mastering the change ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Scylla AG press release, October 19, 2010. Accessed February 21, 2012.
4. ↑ Our ships. Retrieved July 4, 2019 . 
5. ^ Scylla AG: Cruising areas
6. ↑ This is how passengers experienced the accident in Duisburg: "Suddenly it made a mess". Retrieved December 27, 2017 . 
7. ↑ SWR Aktuell, SWR Aktuell: River cruise ship rams bridge in Konz. Accessed on September 22, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Near Speyer: Ship accident on the Rhine - 20 injured. In: blick.ch . December 20, 2019, accessed December 21, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Accident with the passenger ship “MS Thurgau Prestige” claims 20 people injured on the Rhine +++ Video shows the extent of the destruction. In: tagblatt.ch . December 21, 2019, accessed December 21, 2019 .