Coat of arms of Hamburg (ship, 1965)
.jpg) The coat of arms of Hamburg in front of Cuxhaven
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The coat of arms of Hamburg from 1965 was the third and for the time being the last of the seaside resorts of the HADAG Seetouristik und Fährdienst AG and later drove for the Förde Reederei Seetouristik GmbH & Co KG , with this name . She was built by Howaldtswerke Hamburg for the Helgoland ferry service and was, after the Roland von Bremen , the second largest German sea bathing ship.
Furnishing
In addition to two restaurants, the ship had a viewing salon, a disco, cafes and - like its predecessor - two and three-bed cabins that guests could book. It offered space for 1,800 passengers on five decks with ten salons .
The two MAN diesel engines had an output of 10,160 hp. The ship, which had four stabilizers and two propellers and was awarded the blue ribbon of the Heligoland fleet, reached a speed of 22 knots (approx. 40 km / h).
history
Lucaya (1965-1966)
The launch took place on February 16, 1965. The ship replaced the second coat of arms of Hamburg, which had operated the Hamburg- Helgoland route since 1962 , then served the Cuxhaven-Helgoland route for 20 years as the successor to the Helgoland under the name Alte Liebe from 1966 and from 1985 - now even under the name Helgoland - switched to the Bremerhaven-Helgoland route.
Originally it was planned that the new coat of arms of Hamburg would run the Helgoland service in summer and be used as an exclusive cruise ship for a maximum of 212 guests in warmer regions in the winter half-year. However, this concept did not work, so that she only cruised in the Caribbean under the name Lucaya in the first season from October 1965 to May 1966 and from the summer season 1966 drove exclusively in the seaside service for forty years.
Heligoland ferry service (1966-2006)
Until 1982 the ship was used on the Hamburg- Cuxhaven- Helgoland route and, with the exception of weekends, from 1983 only on the shorter Cuxhaven-Helgoland route.
The comfort ensured that the ship was mostly fully booked in the 1960s and 1970s and thus economically successful. It was not until the 1990s that the occupancy rate declined continuously.
The last trip from Cuxhaven to Helgoland took place on September 30, 2006. In December 2006 the Förde Reederei Seetouristik (FRS) announced that it would decommission the ship and replace it with the Atlantis chartered by the Cuxhaven shipowner Cassen Eils . According to FRS, the costs for operation and maintenance are not in proportion to the weak utilization of the former flagship of the Heligoland seaside bathing fleet.
The ending as Mercator II
On May 31, 2007, the FRS had sold the coat of arms of Hamburg to the Mercator Shipping Corporation in the British Virgin Islands and handed it over. In the new fishing port of Cuxhaven , the logo Wappen von Hamburg was replaced by Mercator II . On 15 June 2007 the ship, which by then in Cuxhaven was placed was transferred with a farewell trip to Helgoland around to Bremerhaven.
In the fishing port of Bremerhaven , the ship was to be converted into an exclusive cruise ship for a maximum of 36 guests by summer 2009 . Areas of application should be the Mediterranean and the Caribbean . At the end of December 2008, however , the Mercator II project was declared a definitive failure and work on the ship was discontinued. Largely cannibalized and with the superstructure almost completely dismantled, the ship was in the fishing port of Bremerhaven until November 2010. The last voyage of the now unpowered hull took place at the end of November 2010 in tow to the Danish port city of Esbjerg , where it was scrapped from November 2010 to January 2011. At 4 p.m. on January 26, the dismantling work was declared complete.
The control stand of the ship's bridge with the coat of arms of Hamburg is exhibited in the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven. It should be preserved there permanently for posterity. The horn of the coat of arms of Hamburg has also been preserved and serves as a greeting for newly arriving ships on the North Sea island of Helgoland. One of the adjustable propellers is located in the front garden of the headquarters of the Förde Reederei Seetouristik in Flensburg. Here a plaque commemorates the shipping company's former flagship.
Web links
- Helgoland , cruiseshipodyssey.com - to the Helgoland ferry service
- Film of the scrapping in Esbjerg / Denmark on YouTube , accessed on June 27, 2019.
- Data and photos about the ship (Swedish)
- Videos for arms from Hamburg (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ursel Kikker: ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Helgoland ship is being scrapped ), Nordsee-Zeitung, November 27, 2010
- ↑ dpa: The last trip goes to Denmark . November 26, 2010 ( noz.de [accessed September 15, 2018]).
- ^ Albrecht Sauer: News on the ship bridge in the DSM. In: Deutsche Schiffahrt 31 (2009) 1, pp. 19-20.