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ROSTOCK ferry

Post by shipstamps » Sun Jan 04, 2009 3:25 pm


Built as rail ro-ro ferry under yard No 779 by Bergens Mekaniske Verksted A/S, Bergen, Norway for the Deutsche Reichsbahn, Sassnitz, East Germany.
07 March 1977 launched under the name ROSTOCK.
Tonnage 6.111 gross, 1.680 net, 3.132 dwt., dim. 158.4 x 22.6 x 7.73m., draught 5.6m.
Powered by two 8-cyl. and two 6-cyl. MAN diesel geared to two shafts, 17.500 bhp., twin propellers, speed 20.5 knots.
Passenger accommodation for 36 passengers.
Can carry 49 passenger railway wagons and 74 cars.
One stern ramp and two side doors.
Ice strengthened.
01 July 1977 delivered to owners.

13 July 1977 she arrived at Sassnitz from Norway.
25 July 1977 in the service from Trelleborg to Sassnitz.
19 November 1982, she went aground during bad weather at Trelleborg.
01 January 1993 transferred to Deutschen Fährgesellschaft Ostsee, Rostock, Germany, homeport Sassnitz.
01 March 1993 passenger accommodation increased to 400 passengers by the yard of Neptun Industrie, Rostock.
June 1994 in the service from Trelleborg to Rostock.
From 22 November 1997 till 17 December 1997 used in the service of the ferry MECKLENBURG-VORPOMMERN when she went to the yard.
11 July 1998 till 29 August 1998 sometimes used in the service from Sassnitz to Rönne, Bornholm Island.
07 August 1998 last sailing in the service from Rostock to Trelleborg.
September 1998 laid up at Sassnitz.
1998 Transferred to Scandlines Deutschland GmbH, Warnemünde, Germany.
February 1999 sold to Seawind Line, Stockholm, (Oy Silja Line Ab managers), renamed STAR WIND.
May 1999 in the service from Stockholm to Åbo, Finland.
09 September 2002 got on fire in the engine room off Långnäs, some crewmembers light injured, cause of the fire was a burst oil pipe.
16 October 2002 last sailing in the service from Stockholm to Åbo.
17 October 2002 used in the service from Helsingfors, Finland to Tallinn Estonia.
15 May 2005 last sailing in the service from Helsingfors to Tallinn.
16 May 2005 used in the service from Stockholm to Åbo.
August 2005 laid up at Åbo.
2005 Her tonnage given as 13.788 gross, 6.443 net, 3.034 dwt. http://www.equasis.org gives IMO No. 7527887, call sign SKGN, registered in Sweden, and owned by Seawind Line, Stockholm, Sweden and managed by Seawind Line, Turku, Finland.
28 November 2005 sold to Euro Shipping OÜ, Tallinn. Estonia.
02 November 2005 renamed in VERONIA.
05 November 2005 first sailing from Åbo to Tallinn.
17 March 2006 in the service of the Saaremaa Shipping from Sillamäe. Estonia to Kotka, Finland.
19 October 2007 last sailing.
29 October till 14 November 2007 chartered by Baltic Scandinavian Lines in the service between Paldiski, Estonia and Kapeliskar, Sweden.
06 November 2007 sold to Euroafrica Shipping, Szczecin, Poland.
15 November 2007 laid up at Tallinn.
29 November 2007 renamed in KOPERNIK.
10 December 2007 arrived at Szczecin for a refit.
11 March 2008 made a trial voyage to Ystad, Sweden.
03 April 2008 in service for the Unity Line between Ystad and Swinoujscie, Poland.

East Germany 1979 20pf sg E2139

Source: Comecon Merchant Ships by Ambrose Greenway. http://www.faktaomfartyg.com/rostock_1977.htm

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