A-Rosa Silva
A- ROSA Silva at Deutz harbor in Cologne
- ENI -No. 04810230
The A-Rosa Silva is a river cruise ship, which has been the official commissioning on July 3, 2012 for river cruises on the Rhine, Moselle, Main, Main -Danube Canal and the Danube under the German flag on the go. The river ship carries, as well as the rest of the fleet, the company name ' A-ROSA ' A-ROSA river ship GmbH in the name. His Modelled on her sister ship, the A-Rosa Flora, will be delivered in 2014.
History
Shortly before the completion of the A-Rosa Brava instructed the A-ROSA river ship GmbH on 14 February 2010, the Neptun shipyard in Rostock -Warnemünde with the construction of two identical cabin passenger vessels will be suitable for use on the Danube, Main, Moselle and Rhine should. Especially the small lock dimensions and bridge heights of the Main -Danube Canal had to be considered in the design. In addition, the ship should be equipped so that passengers can feel comfortable even during long cruises from Amsterdam to the Danube Delta aboard. Therefore, they decided the shipping company for a larger version of the two 2005 -built circulating in France sister ships A-Rosa Luna and A-Rosa Stella with two and a half passenger decks. The keel was laid on November 4, 2011. Due to bad weather conditions in winter delayed the delivery of the ship by two weeks, so that A-Rosa Silva until the second half of June, with its own power on the Baltic Sea, North Sea-Baltic Canal, the North Sea, the IJsselmeer and up could go to Amsterdam. The risk of fracture parts were protected for security for the transfer with wood paneling. This was followed by the final equipment of the ship. The planned originally for June 15 grand launch at the feeder 5 of Vriessevemkade in Amsterdam took place on 2 July 2012. Godmother was Sonja Dreisow, wife of Jörg Dreisow, the manager of the majority shareholder of A- Pink, Waterland.
On 3 July 2012, the ship was under the command of Captain Joachim Schlenther on maiden trip to Basel and in autumn 2012 on the routes Frankfurt am Main - used Regensburg - Strasbourg and Nuremberg.
Equipment
The A-Rosa Silva is the first ship of the " A- Rosa River ship", the suites and junior suites, as an accent to the regular outside cabins has. Passengers will be available, including two restaurants, two cafe-bars, Finnish sauna, steam sauna in the modern spa area and outdoor pool.
Technology
The A-Rosa Silva is powered by four diesel engines Volvo Penta D12 - 450MH (KC ) over four Schottel rudder propellers STP 200 powered with twin propellers, in addition the ship has a bow thruster type pump jet SPJ 82 of Schottel, with a 400 kW diesel engine is driven. The ship is 135 m long and 11.40 m wide. The depth is given as 1.60 m at normal load, the height above water of 6.00 m. By lowering of the wheelhouse, and folding of railings and awning the height for rides can be on water, reduced with low bridge crossings.