City of Kiel

City of Kiel

Motor ship city ​​of Kiel

Ship data flag  Germany Ship type Passenger ship Callsign DJUY home port Kiel Owner Friends of MS Stadt Kiel eV Shipyard Germania shipyard , Kiel Launch May 26, 1934 Whereabouts as a traditional ship in motion

Ship dimensions and crew length 28.13 m ( Lüa ) width 7.30 m measurement 253 GRT

Machine system machine 1 × diesel engine , MaK Maschinenbau Kiel (MA U 423) Machine performance 382 kW (519 hp) Top speed 11.5 kn (21 km / h) propeller 1 × fixed propeller

Others Classifications Germanic Lloyd Registration numbers IMO no. 5337771

The city ​​of Kiel is a traditional ship with home port Kiel and a technical cultural monument of the state of Schleswig-Holstein . It has a length of 28.13 m, a width of 7.30 m and is measured with 253  GRT . It originally had 400 seats, but is now only designed for up to 100 passengers.

history

Side view, in the background the Ostseekai

The city of Kiel was on 26 May 1934 on the Germaniawerft from the stack and was in the following years as a passenger ship in the fjord cruise in use. A similar ship went as Heikendorf .

In 1943, during the Second World War , the city ​​of Kiel was sunk by an air raid, but it was salvaged and then repaired in Svendborg, Denmark , and it was also lengthened by three meters. From 1946 the ship was back in liner service in the Kiel Fjord. In 1954 it was rebuilt at the Kröger shipyard in Rendsburg and later served as a charter and excursion ship on the Bay of Kiel , e.g. B. rides on "Around the fire ship", as Ferry Sonderburg - Eckernförde and even in the Öresund . In 1976 the city ​​of Kiel was sold by the previous owner KVAG and then changed hands several times.

In 1983 the Förderverein MS Stadt Kiel eV bought the ship and brought it back to Kiel from Lübeck-Travemünde , where it was in the meantime. Extensive renovation and maintenance work was also carried out with ABM . The ship has been a memorial since 1994. Today the ship is used for passenger trips in the southwestern Baltic Sea .

literature

• Tim Schwabedissen: MS City of Kiel. From harbor steamer to museum ship . Husum-Verlag, Husum 2001, ISBN 3-89876-009-X
• City of Kiel . In: Schiffahrt international , Heft 6/1983, p. 250, Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1983, ISSN 0342-491 X

Web links

Commons : Stadt Kiel  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Association website
• The city of Kiel or its sister ship in a film pan over the fjord in 1938 (at 9: 20–9: 25 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xySKClQ8HtE

Footnotes

1. ↑ "City of Kiel" is fit again . In: Daily port report of March 4, 2013, p. 3