Ulster Queen

Ulster Queen

As Poseidonia in Eleusis, June 2004

Ship data flag  United Kingdom other ship names Med Sea (1982–1986) Al Kahera (1986–1987) Ala-Eddin (1987–1988) Poseidonia (1988–2005) Al Kahfain (2005) Ship type RoPax home port Belfast Shipping company Belfast Steamship Company Shipyard Cammell, Laird & Company , Birkenhead Build number 1323 Launch 1st December 1966 takeover May 23, 1967 Commissioning June 6, 1967 Decommissioning June 1998 Whereabouts sunk on November 3, 2005

Ship dimensions and crew length 114.6 m ( Lüa ) width 16.5 m Draft Max. 4.1 m measurement 4,478 GT

Machine system machine 2 × 12 cyl. Pielstick diesel engines Machine performance 5,295 kW (7,199 hp) Top speed 15 kn (28 km / h) propeller 2 ×

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 1.008 Vehicle capacity 140 cars

Others Registration numbers IMO 6703317

The Ulster Queen was a ferry of the British Belfast Steamship Company that was put into service in 1967 and was in service for regular services to Liverpool until 1981 . Since 1982 the ship has changed its name, location and operator several times. It was last named Al Kahfain before it sank on November 3, 2005 after a fire in the engine room off the island of Shadwan . One crew member was killed.

history

The Ulster Queen was built under construction number 1323 at Cammell, Laird & Company in Birkenhead and was launched on December 1, 1966. After its delivery to the Belfast Steamship Company on May 23, 1967, the ship began ferry operations between Belfast and Liverpool on June 6 .

Since 1971 the Ulster Queen has been under the management of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company , in 1978 it was taken over by their subsidiary P&O Ferries . On November 7, 1981, the ship completed its last crossing to Liverpool before it was decommissioned and laid up in Ostend in December 1981 .

In April 1982 the Ulster Queen went under the new name Med Sea to an owner based in Limassol and in the same year began service from Cyprus to Syria . In 1986 the ship was renamed Al Kahera , in 1987 it was named Ala-Eddin . In 1988 it went to the Greek Hellenic Mediterrean Lines as Poseidonia , to be used between Igoumenitsa and Brindisi from then on.

After ten years on this route, the Poseidonia was launched in June 1998. In May 2000 it went to the Founders Shipping & Trading Company, but never got going again. It was only five years later that a new operator was found in the Arab shipping company Al-Kahfain, who renamed the ship Al Kahfain and planned its use in Saudi Arabia. On November 2, 2005, on the transfer journey between Suez and Jeddah, an explosion occurred in the engine room of Al Kahfain , which set off a fire. One crew member was killed here. A day later the ship sank off the island of Shadwan.

Web links

Commons : IMO 6703317  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

• the ship on faktaomfartyg.se (Swedish)
• the ship on ferry-site.dk (English)