Tamsen snaps up Rostock ferry work

Captain Olaf Schütt, owner of family-run local ferry operator Rostocker Personenschiffahrt, told Maritime Journal the firm had once again put its fleet of four ships into Tamsen for annual cleaning and coating as well as some maintenance. Captain Schütt said the firm carries out its own work and uses Tamsen because “the yard has the best working conditions with a ship lift and a hall, so work can continue in all weathers”.

Capt. Schütt said hull and sea chest blasting and coating work had been done on the ferries and new anti-fouling protection applied. Sundecks got slip-proof paint and oil changes were undertaken.

The latest ferry to go to Tamsen was the 32.2m long Rostocker 7. Built by Lux Werft in 2003 the vessel has two Schottel SRP 100 rudder propellers driven by two Deutz BF6M 1013 NMCP engines and also boasts both a Deutz BF4M 1012 E and a Hatz 30kW generator. A bow thruster aids movement in port and on the busy Warnow river.

All four ferries were built at ferry specialist Lux Werft on the Rhine. The others are the 34m long and 8.2m wide Hansestadt Rostock, built in 2010, the 29.2m Mecklenburg, built in 2003 – both also with Deutz/Schottel propulsion – and the 1998-built Kasper Ohm, also 29.2m long and Schottel driven with MAN main engines.

By Tom Todd