Uthlande (ship, 2010)

Uthlande

Ship data flag  Germany Ship type Double-ended ferry home port Wyk on Föhr Owner Wyker Dampfschiffs-Reederei Föhr-Amrum Shipyard JJ Sietas, Hamburg Build number 1228 Order April 4, 2009 Keel laying July 10, 2009 Launch April 23, 2010 takeover June 3, 2010 Commissioning June 15, 2010

Ship dimensions and crew length 75.88 m ( Lüa ) width 16.4 m Draft Max. 1.85 m measurement 3,300 GRT   crew 6th

Machine system machine 4 × Caterpillar 3508 Machine performance 2,160 kW (2,937 hp) Top speed 12 kn (22 km / h) propeller Voith-Schneider drive

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 1,204 Vehicle capacity 75 cars

Others Classifications DNV GL Registration numbers IMO no. 9548407

The Uthlande is a combined car and passenger ferry of the Sietas - type 182 of the Wyker Dampfschiffs-Reederei Föhr-Amrum GmbH (WDR). It is the shipping company's first double-ended ferry .

history

The Uthlande was built in 2009/2010 at the Sietas shipyard in Hamburg-Neuenfelde. It is the first ferry to be built for WDR since 1995. On June 15, 2010 the Uthlande in Wyk auf Föhr was put into service. Since then it has been operating between Dagebüll , Wyk on Föhr and Wittdün on Amrum .

particularities

As a double-end ferry with Voith-Schneider drive , the Uthlande differs significantly from the previous WDR ferries. Passengers are no longer embarked and disembarked via the vehicle deck, but via barrier-free pedestrian ramps that are fed from the jetties. This required appropriate structural measures at the port facilities in Dagebüll, Wyk and Wittdün. The previous time-consuming turning in the harbor basin should be omitted in the future, but this cannot be achieved at least when driving across all three ports and back. The capacity of the Uthlande has increased compared to previous WDR ferries. The ferry has five instead of four lanes for transporting motor vehicles, so that 75 cars can be transported at a time. In addition, it has a larger sundeck, which has its disadvantages due to the centrally built wheelhouse. One side is always partially in the shadow.

With the commissioning of the new Uthlande , the Uthlande (built in 1980) was initially shut down. It remained in Wyker Hafen in summer 2010 and was even used for a short time. At the end of October the ship was transferred to the shipyard in Husum, where it was still waiting to be sold. Due to the sale of Schleswig-Holstein , the Uthlande was used again until the second double-ended ferry was put into service.

In December 2011, the new, largely identical sister ship Schleswig-Holstein was put into service.

In April 2011, Uthlande received the Ship Pax Award for its innovative concept.

literature

• Peter Andryszak: Light Ferry . In: Deutsche Seeschifffahrt , Heft 6/2010, pp. 12-19, Storck, Hamburg 2010, ISSN  0948-9002
• Frederik Erdmann: »Uthlande« put into service on the Dagebüll – Föhr – Amrum ferry route . In: Hansa , Heft 6/2010, pp. 70-72, Schiffahrts-Verlag Hansa, Hamburg 2010, ISSN  0017-7504

Web links

Commons : Uthlande  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wyker Dampfschiffs-Reederei Föhr-Amrum GmbH (Hrsg.): The rudder blade . No. 2 , 2009 ( faehre.de ( Memento from May 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 281 kB)).
• Report on the baptism on June 11, 2010 ( Memento from February 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• DNV GL: Uthlande
• M / S Uthlande.

Footnotes

1. ^ WDR information on the ferry (2009) ( Memento from May 31, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 281 kB), accessed June 16, 2010