German ferry veteran starts over again after big refit
Spiekeroog 1V ready to work again following a comprehensive refit.
Much travelled and again renamed ferry veteran Spiekeroog 1V is back in island service off the North German coast after a comprehensive refit and technical overhaul in Husum.
The 45.5m long and 10.4m wide ship, drawing 1.55m, was built and delivered in 1979 by the Husumer Dock und Reparatur shipyard (HDR) as Pellworm 1 and renamed Adler Pomerania in 1996. It was acquired last year by new owners NSB Nordseebad Spiekeroog. The old ship went back to HDR last September for a complete refit that has taken the best part of six months.
After its completion and second renaming in March, the new 303 gt Spiekeroog 1V, which will carry a maximum of 296 passengers and about 20 cars, went into service as a combined Ro-Ro freight and passenger ferry between the island and Harlingersiel, about 6km away on the Lower Saxony mainland. It handles all the small island’s cargo transport
Spiekeroog spokesman Volkert Hein told MJ the Spiekeroog 1V had been renovated ‘from the bottom up’ at HDR. He said new installations included a public area suitable for wheelchairs, a medical care facility and a new bow ramp from MacGregor for loading and unloading. A new rescue system for a maximum of 300 people had also been installed.
Below deck, the ship’s passenger areas were also renovated. Work included new floor coverings, seat coverings and lighting.
The shape of the vessel’s bow was adapted to suit landside sloping ramps, work that Hein said included redirecting both the bow thruster tunnel and also the bow thruster diesel on its foundation.
Overhauled and re-installed were the ship’s two MWM-TBD 601-6K diesels, each of 285 kW to deliver 10 knots, two MWM D226-4 generators each of 32kW, an MWM D232 V8, 129 kW auxiliary diesel and a Jastram BU 02 F transverse bow thruster. The hull was sandblasted and repainted.
By Tom Todd
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