MF Dubrovnik
The Dubrovnik ( IMO number 7615048 ) is a RoRo Ferry, the 1979-1988 flag of Ireland between Ireland, England and Wales, then from 1988 to 1996 under the French flag of Brittany, England and Ireland, and since then under Croatian flag inverted or reversed in the Adriatic.
Construction and Specifications
The ship was launched on June 20, 1978 at the shipyard of Verolme Cork Dockyard in Cobh, Ireland, with the hull number 955 and the name of Connacht for the British and Irish Steam Packet Company (B I Line ) from the stack. It was 122,36 m long and 18,82 m wide and had 4.83 m Draft. It was measured with 9796 GRT and 3818 NRT. The carrying capacity was 1373 tons. Four 8 -cylinder marine diesel engines of MaK together with 18,000 kW power permitted a speed of 20 knots. Equipped with bug and tailgate ship had room for about 330 cars and 1500 passengers, including 540 in cabins and 470 in so-called Pullman armchairs.
Fate
B I Line: Connacht
The Connacht was delivered in January 1979 and adopted on 7 February 1979 to their service, initially between Cork and Swansea. On May 22, 1979 This service was transferred to the newly opened line Cork Pembroke Dock, who handled the Connacht in eight hours. In September 1980, she was transferred to the Dublin- Liverpool, on the as of July 1981 and was her sister ship Leinster ( today Madeleine ) wrong. In order to improve the earnings situation of the loss- shipping company, was inserted in the spring of 1981, a daily round -trip Dublin - Holyhead between the overnight trips Dublin - Liverpool - Dublin. In the spring of 1986, the interior of Connacht and her sister ship Leinster was fundamentally changed, caused by the change from predominantly night rides on daytime driving between Dublin and Holyhead. The cabins on the upper deck, the former main cabin deck were replaced by a long-range duty- free shop, a cinema and lounges with reclining seats. The restaurant and cocktail lounge on the service deck have been replaced by a self -service cafeteria, and the previous Cateteria been converted into a restaurant. On 6 January 1988, the Connacht made her last trip on the Dublin - Liverpool route on which now only the Leinster wrong, and on 12 January 1988, she opened the new route Rosslare Harbour Pembroke Dock.
Britanny Ferries: Duchesse Anne
In June 1988, the precarious financial situation forced the shipping company for the sale of Connacht to the French Société Anonyme d' Economie Mixte d' Bretonne Equipment Navale ( SABEMEN ), which gave the ship its sister company, Brittany Ferries for ship management. As of October 3, 1988 the ship at the Meyer Werft was overhauled in Papenburg, before it came under the new name Duchesse Anne back on track. At first it drove a few weeks in January and February 1989 charter for the Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland ( SMZ ), which functioned at that time under the name Crown Line, between Hoek van Holland and Harwich, but then it was on 13 February 1989, the route Saint -Malo -Portsmouth Brittany Ferries put into service. As of June 1993, when the much larger Brittany took this route, the Duchesse Anne then drove both of Saint- Malo and Roscoff to Plymouth and Cork. From 1994 she served experimentally the seasonal Route Saint -Malo Poole. With the end of summer 1996, the Duchesse Anne was pulled from the market, and in October 1996 she was sold to the Croatian ferry company Jadrolinija in Rijeka.
Jadrolinija: Dubrovnik
The ship was renamed in Dubrovnik and in his new role, Passagierfährdienst along the Croatian coast and across the Adriatic Sea from and to Italy, renovated and modified. The Dubrovnik is now approved for 1300 passengers and 300 cars. It has 459 beds in 149 rooms as well as 384 comfortable recliner. Facilities include a restaurant with 135 seats, a cafeteria with 224 seats, a bar-café with 274 seats, a cinema with 96 seats, a video room, a playroom for children, and shopping arcades. The ship sailed on many routes along the Dalmatian coast, so among other things, between Rijeka, Split, Stari Grad and undKorčula to Bari and Ancona in Italy, but is now mainly used on the route Split - Ancona.