Wilhelmshaven (ship)
 As Wilhelmshaven in 2004
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The Wilhelmshaven was a former seaside resort ship which was used from 1963 to 2004 for the seaside resort traffic on the Wilhelmshaven ↔ Helgoland route. After being converted into a car ferry , the ship operated as a Leviathan between the Aeolian Islands and Sicily in 2006 , but was launched in Naples that same year . At the beginning of 2010 the ferry was renamed Favola A Venezia and has been in Venice since then . In 2014 the ship was scrapped in Aliağa, Turkey .
History of the ship
The Wilhelmshaven was built at the Roland shipyard in Bremen-Hemelingen. The design for the ship came from Knud-E. Hansen from Copenhagen . W. Czech from Wilhelmshaven worked as an interior designer on the construction of what was then the most modern seaside resort ship. The machinery was supplied by MAN Diesel . There are two marine diesel engines with 1,103 kW (1,500 hp) each and three auxiliary machines with 163 kVA / 380 V each .
The launch took place on March 2, 1963. The ship was christened by Ella Janßen, the wife of the then Lord Mayor of Wilhelmshaven , Johann Janßen. The shipping company was the shipping company Jade, 97½ percent of which was owned by the city of Wilhelmshaven.
The Wilhelmshaven was used from 1963 to 1983 in the seasonal Helgoland traffic by the shipping company Jade on the Wilhelmshaven↔Helgoland route. The journey time was just under three hours, which enabled passengers to spend a long time on the island. In the winter months the ship was launched in Wilhelmshaven. The only exception was the winter half-year 1969/1970, in which the ship was chartered to Denmark.
In 1984 the city of Wilhelmshaven gave up the operation of the Jade shipping company and sold the Wilhelmshaven to the Warrings shipping company in Carolinensiel , which continued to use the ship in Heligoland traffic. From 2004, the route from Wilhelmshaven to Helgoland was operated by the Förde Reederei Seetouristik , which took over the seaside resort ship from the Warrings shipping company. At the end of the 2004 season, the Förde Reederei Seetouristik put Wilhelmshaven out of service and justified this with the upcoming extensive renovation work, which in the opinion of the shipping company was not economically viable. The last trip to Helgoland took place on October 3rd, 2004.
On February 25, 2005 the ship was sold and renamed Leviathan . A vehicle deck was installed at the Mariotti shipyard in Genoa and, after another change of ownership, ferry traffic between the Aeolian islands of Salina and Lipari and the Sicilian port of Milazzo was started on April 15, 2006 for Argo Ferries . At the end of the year the ship was sold again and laid up in Naples.
At the beginning of 2010 there was another sale, the name was changed to Favola A Venezia and the relocation to the shipyard in Marghera . At Christmas 2012 the ship was hauled to Valletta (Malta). In April 2014, it was sold for scrapping in Aliağa, Turkey, where it arrived on April 11th.
