Warnemünde (ship)
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The Warnemünde was a German railway ferry that operated on the ferry line between Warnemünde and Gedser for over 32 years .
history
The Warnemünde was built from 1961 to 1963 at the Rostock Neptun shipyard ( construction number 120). Experience from the construction of the Sassnitz ferry was incorporated . The ship was christened by Lotte Ulbricht when it was launched on July 8, 1962. The acceptance took place on April 21, 1963, the commissioning was on May 23, 1963. Operator was the Deutsche Reichsbahn , the home port was Saßnitz .
From 1963 to 1973 Warnemünde ran between Warnemünde and Gedser during the summer schedule , but on the Königslinie between Saßnitz and Trelleborg during the winter schedule . It was not until 1973 that it was in use all year round on the Warnemünde - Gedser route, which was operated jointly by various Danish ferries . Rødbyhavn was called several times during construction work in Gedser .
While the ferry in Warnemünde and Gedser was driven through the bow hatch , this was done on the Königslinie through the tailgate . In February 1992 the stern was rebuilt and provided with a wider tailgate. The stern was then moored in Gedser. This means that the road vehicles no longer have to drive in or out backwards or turn around in the ship.
On October 25, 1992 there was a collision with the ferry bed in Warnemünde. The cause was repair work on the controllable pitch propeller control . The damage amounted to 1.3 million DM, nobody was injured.
In April 1993 the German Ferry Company Ostsee (DFO) took over the operation of Warnemünde . On 24 September 1995 she was for the last time on the track Warnemünde - Gedser go, then it was for sale in Warnemünde launched . By then she had covered over 1.7 million nautical miles .
On January 30, 1996, DFO sold Warnemünde for the equivalent of 4 million US dollars to the Italian shipping company TR.IS. The transfer to the Mediterranean Sea began on February 2, 1996 and lasted 18 days, as several stops are made in the Bay of Biscay due to bad weather had to. The ferry was rebuilt in a shipyard in Genoa , the bow hatch was welded shut and the tail hatch was rebuilt for direct mooring at the pier. She got the name Admiral , home port was Olbia in Sardinia . The shipping company used the ship between the Italian and Spanish mainland as well as Sardinia , Corsica and Mallorca .
On September 8, 2000, the Admiral ran onto a sandbank off Palau in Sardinia . No people were harmed. The following day the ferry was towed free after the heavy oil tanks had been emptied. Because of the considerable damage to the hull, she had to be repaired in a shipyard and was put back into service on June 15, 2001.
In October 2002 the shipping company went bankrupt and the Admiral was launched in Genoa . Since no other buyer could be found for the Admiral , it was sold to a Turkish scrapping yard in February 2003 for US $ 500,000 . On March 7, 2003, the transfer began by tugboat to Aliağa , where she arrived on March 23. On March 28, 2003, the ship was driven onto the beach and scrapped there.
Furnishing
The ship had four supercharged nine-cylinder diesel engines each with 1,765 kW (type 9NVD66 Au) from VEB Maschinenbau Halberstadt, each of which worked via two induction clutches and a reduction gear on variable-pitch propellers . Four 690 kVA diesel generator sets and a 112 kVA emergency power generator were used to supply the vehicle electrical system. In addition to the stern and bow rudders, the Warnemünde had a bow thruster system . The entire machine system could be controlled from a soundproof, central operator's platform. There was an additional operator's platform at the rear for reversing.
In contrast to other ferries , the Warnemünde had a stern and a bow hatch for the entry and exit of the vehicles . On the vehicle deck there were three tracks with a total of almost 317 m track length. There was space for 31 freight wagons, 11 express train wagons or 150 cars.
In addition to eight four-bed cabins, there was a cafeteria (185 seats), a smoking salon (196 seats), a dining room (154 seats), a wine restaurant (46 seats) and a veranda with lounge chairs for the passengers.
photos
literature
- Manfred Neumann, Dietrich Strobel: From the cutter to the container ship. VEB Verlag Technik, Berlin 1981.
- Horst Rieger: The ships of the GDR. GeraMond Verlag, Munich, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7654-7713-3 .
Web links
- Warnemünde ferry
- M / S Warnemünde (Facta om fartyg)