Trelleborg (ship, 1958)
 The Trelleborg in the port of Saßnitz
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The Trelleborg was a railway ferry of the Swedish State Railways put into service in 1958, which was in service on the royal line between Trelleborg and Saßnitz until 1977 .
history
Trelleborg
The Trelleborg was built under construction number 336 in Helsingør Skibsværft in Helsingør and was launched on November 19, 1957. After delivery to the Swedish State Railways on April 19, 1958, the ship began ferry operations between Trelleborg and Saßnitz on April 27, 1958. It was the first ferry on this route that had a railway deck with four tracks (403 m total length) and a separate motor vehicle deck.
In May 1960 the Trelleborg collided with the Norwegian tanker Beth and had to be brought to Helsingør for repairs. In May 1966 the ship called at the port of Travemünde instead of Saßnitz for two weeks . It then returned to its usual route from Trelleborg to Saßnitz, but from 1967 onwards , after the Skåne was commissioned, it mainly served as a reserve ship. From 1972 to 1975 the Trelleborg was also used on the route from Stockholm to Naantali . In 1977 the ship ended its service with the Swedish State Railways after almost twenty years.
Homerus
The Greek Maritime Compania of Lesvos ( NEL Lines ) became the new owner in 1977 . From then on, the ferry operated between Lesbos and Piraeus under the new name Homerus . In April 1992, the ship went to the shipping company Kyprohellenic Shipping for a purchase price of $ 2.3 million and operated briefly between Patras , Igoumenitsa and Bari .
Nissos Kypros
In 1993 the ship was sold to Salamis Lines as Nissos Kypros . She was in service between Piraeus, Limassol and Haifa for the next eight years . On October 24, 2001, the now 43-year-old ship completed its last crossing and was then laid up in Limassol . In April 2003 it went under the transfer name Veesham IX to a demolition yard in Alang , India , where it arrived on July 6, 2003 for scrapping.
literature
- Flume: 25 years of railway ferry connection Saßnitz – Trälleborg. In: Newspaper of the Association of Central European Railway Administrations, Volume 74, No. 27 (July 5, 1934), pp. 473–479.
- Gert Uwe Detlefsen: The ships of the railways. Urbes, Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-924896-30-5 .
- Wolfgang Kramer, Horst-Dieter Foerster, Reinhard Kramer: The ships of the royal line. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 1981, ISBN 3-7688-0360-0 .
- Reinhard Kramer, Wolfgang Kramer, Horst-Dieter Foerster: Between yesterday and tomorrow: the Sassnitz – Trelleborg ferry connection. Redieck & Schade, Rostock 2009, ISBN 978-3-934116-82-5 .
