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Name / Owner: SUNDPILEN when chartered to Sundpilen AB, Helsingborg, (owned by HADAG, Hamburg), reg: Hamburg.
Date photographed: August, 1964, Copenhagen Harbour.
Year built / Builder: 1948, Hamburg-Finkenwerder, Tyskland, as the BURGERMEISTER ROSS
Details: As photographed: 794 GT; 52.5 m x 10.2 m x 3.1 m draught; 780 passengers; 430 kW, 6-cyl, MWM diesel motor; 13.5 knots.
History: Originally built for the Hamburg - Wilhelmshaven service under charter to A. Bolten & Wm. Miller, she was transferred to Hamburg - Cuxhaven service in 1949. She was altered and lengthened by Stulckenwerft, Hamburg, in 1951 and placed on extended service to Helgoland. Chartered to Sundpilen AB in 1957, she served the CentrumLinjen service between Copenhagen and Malmo until 1965 when sold to Turismo Maritimo SA, Acapulco, as the MEXICO FIESTA. Sold to Yates "Bonanza" de Turismo SA, Acapulco, in 1977, after which no further details are available. This information was gleaned from www.faktaomfartyg.com.
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Name / Owner: SELANDIA IMO No: 5093959
Date photographed: July, 2004, Barrow-in-Furness - shortly after her arrival on tow from Tilbury.
Year built / Builder: 1951, Helsingor Jernskibs og Maskinbyggeri, Helsingor, Danmark.
Details: 3,046 gt, 1,315 nrt, 938 dwt; passenger / rail car ferry; 362 ft x 58 ft; built for 1,500 passengers. Main engines: 2, B&W 650-VF-90 diesels (4,410 bhp); speed 17 knots.
History: . Built for DSB (Danske Statsbaner) of Korsor, Denmark, as the DRONNING INGRID. Began service on the Korsor - Nyborg route in April, 1951. Several changes of Danish inter-island and Danish - Germany routes ensued with a name change to SJAELLAND in 1979. For a time thereafter, she plied between Malmo and Kopenhamn until she was sold to Danish Radio and TV as a studio in 1985. In 1988 she became a museum and restaurant ship, in which capacity she served until sold to English interests in April, 2002, being moved to Tilbury and renamed SELANDIA. She was again moved to Barrow-in-Furness in 2004 and, following refurbishment, is now moored in Buccleuch Dack as the restaurant and nightclub ship PRINCESS SELANDIA.
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Name / Owner: CARIBBEAN MERCY IMO No: 5280930 Caribbean Mercy, Inc., (Mercy Ships), reg: Panama.
Date photographed: June, 2003, when calling at Halifax on a promotional visit.
Year built / Builder: 1952, Aalborg Vaerft A/S, Aalborg, Denmark.
Details: 2,125 GT, 265 ft x 40 ft; 172 berths. Power is provided by a 9 cyl MaK oil engine delivering 3,670 bhp, driving a single screw for a service speed of 13 knots.
History: Well over 50 years old and still going strong! This ex-general cargo / passenger vessel was built for Bergen Line's (Det Bergenske D/S) Hurtigruten service as the POLARLYS. She was transferred to Troms Fylkes D/S, Tromso, in 1979. Later converted into a floating hospital cum medical centre about 10 years ago, after being purchased in April, 1994 by the Christian Youth With a Mission organization. Her B & W diesels were replaced by a MaK motor in 1982. Externally, she remains little changed from the day she first entered service. Mercy Ships International is a global charity providing free medical care to needy people around the world. The CARIBBEAN MERCY serves the Caribbean and Central / South America.
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Name / Owner: KONG OLAV V IMO No: 5192640 Det Forenede D/S A/S, Denmark; reg: Copenhagen.
Date photographed: Another photo taken in Copenhagen in August, 1964, this time of a modern coastal passenger ship.
Year built / Builder: 1961, Aalborg Skipsvaerft A/S, Aalborg, Denmark. Yard number 135. (Sister ship, PRINSESSE MARGRETHE).
Details: 4,555 gt, 2,283 nrt, 1,135 dwt; 121.0 m x 16.2 m x 5.1 m; 977 passengers. Main engine: B&W 850-VBF-90 diesel (7,500 bhp); speed 20.5 knots.
History: DFDS service record: began Kopenhamn - Oslo service in July, 1961; name change to OLAV in May, 1968, when placed in reserve; briefly redeployed June, 1969, on the Kopenhamn - Helsingborg - Alborg service. Sold to China Navigation Ltd. in October, 1969, and renamed TAIWAN; refitted at Taikoo Dkyd, Hong Kong, 1970 for service between Hong Kong and Keelung; sold to Birka Line AB, Mariehamn, Finland, in 1972 and renamed BARONESSA for service between Stockholm and Mariehamn; 1980 - sold to Yick Fung Shipping & Enterprise Co Ltd, Panama, becoming the MING FUNG;1981 - sold to China Ocean Shipping Ltd, Taiwan and renamed JI MEI; 1983 - sold to Fujian Province Shipping and renamed NAN HU; 1985 - sold to Guangdong Province, Hong Kong and Macau Nav. Co., Guangzhou. She was in service in Chinese waters still as the NAN HU late in 1995 (Far East Ship Safari by Peter Knego, Ships Monthly, August, 1996). Her eventual fate remains unknown. This information was gleaned from www.faktaomfartyg.com/rederier.htm.
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Name / Owner: GAELIC FERRY IMO No: 5427148 Townsend Thoresen.
Date photographed: Laid-up at Barrow-in-Furness, Easter 1985.
Year built / Builder: 1964, Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson, Wallsend.
Details: As built: 2,760 gt; 3,316 gt (after lengthening by 80 feet to 440 ft x 56 ft in 1972); 28 passengers, increased to 44; 564 lane-meters (after 1972/73 rebuild/ refits). Main engines: 2, 10-cyl Sulzer diesels (5,218 bhp); speed 16 knots
History: She was built for Atlantic Steam Navigation Co. Ltd, London, and served many UK / Continental routes until sold in 1987 to a Dutch company, being renamed GAELIC, which - as far as I can determine - was her only change of name before being broken up in Taiwan in 1988.
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Name / Owner: FREE ENTERPRISE III IMO No: 6611461 Townsend Thoresen.
Date photographed: Portsmouth during the brief period in summer 1981 when she served Townsend Thoresen's Portsmouth - Le Havre route.
Year built / Builder: 1966, I.C.H. Holland, Werf Gusto Yard at Schiedam, Holland.
Details: 6,889 gt (909 dwt); 385.4 ft x 62.6 ft; 1,200 passengers and 250 cars. Main engine: 12-cyl MAN diesel (11,535 bhp); speed 20 knots.
History: She remains in active service in 2005 under Saudi ownership (Sadaka Shipping Lines, Jeddah) as the AL FAHAD following several changes of service routes, ownership and names during her long career.
Astern in the photo can be seen Brittany Ferries, BRIEZH IZEL of 1970, built by Taikoo Dockyard and Eng. Co, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong, for Union Steamship, Wellington, NZ, as the WANAKA. Likewise, she had a long career under New Zealand, Greek, French, Irish, English and Cypriot management. Full details and histories of these ships can be found at www.faktaomfartyg.com/rederier.htm.
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Name / Owner: NORTHERN PRINCESS IMO No: 6611552 Northern Cruiser Ltd., (Puddister Trading), reg: St John's, NL.
Date photographed: February, 2004 - St John's, Newfoundland, on a day when it was difficult to prevent ice crystals from forming on the camera lens.
Year built / Builder: 1965, G. T. Davie & Sons Ltd., Lauzon QC, Canada.
Details: 2,558 GT, 225 ft x 46 ft. Passenger / vehicle ferry (stern door and ramp) with accommodation for 300 unberthed passengers. Power provided by a 9cyl Polar oil engine producing 2,508 bhp driving a single screw for a service speed of 15.5 knots.
History: Built as the SIEUR D'AMOURS. Provides service around the coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Name / Owner: APOLLO IMO No: 7006314 Labrador Marine Inc., reg: St John's, NL.
Comments: Photographed alongside St John's, Newfoundland, February, 2004.
Year built / Builder: 1970, Jos L. Meyer, Papenburg, Germany, as the APOLLO
Details: 6,480 GT; 108.7m x 17.25 m; Passenger and vehicle ferry - bow and stern doors / ramps. Propulsion machinery: two MAN/B&W 9 cyl motors producing 8,045 bhp driving a single screw for a service speed of 20 knots.
History: Built for Baltic Sea service as one of the six "Papenburg Vikings" for the Viking Line constituent company, Rederi AB Slite, Mariehamn, Finland. She then saw many changes of name, owners and routes as the OLAU KENT (Olau Line A/S, Denmark, 1976 - 1980), GELTING NORD (Nordisk Faegefart A/S, Denmark, 1980 - 1984), BENODET (Brittany Ferries, 1984 - 1985), CORBIERE (British Channel Island Ferries, 1985 - 1991), LINDA 1 (Oy Eckerolinjens AB, 1991 - 1995) before being renamed APOLLO in 1995 for further Baltic service, subsequently being sold to Canadian interests - the Hayward Group - in 2000.
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Name / Owner: ROYAL IRIS / ROYAL DAFFODIL IMO Nos: 8633712 / 4900868 respectively. Mersey Ferries (Merseyside Passenger Transport).
Comments: Both of these famous ferries were photographed from the Seacombe Terminal during August, 2004.
Year built / Builder: Both were built by Philip & Son, Dartmouth; ROYAL IRIS in 1960 and ROYAL DAFFODIL in 1962.
Details: ROYAL IRIS: 464 gt; ROYAL DAFFODIL: 751 gt.
History: Built for Birkenhead Corporation's ferry service from Woodside to Liverpool Pier-Head. ROYAL IRIS (more correctly, ROYAL IRIS of the MERSEY) was formerly named MOUNTWOOD. She was substantially refurbished and re-engined at Cammell Lairds in 2001. The ROYAL DAFFODIL, originally named OVERCHURCH was refitted and re-engined by Lengthline Ship Repairers, Manchester, in 1999. A third 1960-built ferry SNOWDROP (670 gt), ex-WOODCHURCH was similarly refitted in 2004 and acts as the reserve.
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