MS Pride of Hull

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Lloyd 's Register of Shipping

IMO number:. 9208629

The Pride of Hull ( German: "Pride of Hull ") is a registered in the Bahamas Roll-on/Roll-off-Fähre for passengers and goods, for the P & O Ferries with her sister ship Pride of Rotterdam the 378 km (204 miles ) long connection Kingston upon Hull -Rotterdam served.

Description

The Pride of Hull is about 215.5 meters long, 31.9 meters wide and has a maximum draft of about 6 meters.

She is powered by four Wärtsilä 9L46C diesel engines with a total output of 37,800 kW. This can at 22 knots ( about 41 km / h) speed limit.

The Pride of Hull can carry up to 1,360 passengers. It has 3,300 running meters cargo, can 250 cars or 400 truck trailers record. Cars and bikes navigate the ship through a lateral ramp and stowed separately from the goods sector. Truck and container access via the rear in a separate loading area.

History

The keel-laying ceremony took place on 1 March 1999. The ship was built under the hull number 6066. Originally, the ship Pride of Rotterdam was to be called, but the name was changed before the launch on 11 April 2001 in Pride of Hull. The Pride of Hull was passed on 16 November 2001 in Venice, Italy, on the shipping company P & O North Sea Ferries. She was baptized on 30 November 2001 by Cherie Blair in Hull on 2 December 2001 and entered into service at the wayside Kingston upon Hull -Rotterdam.

The owner of the Pride of Hull, P & O Ferries, managed and operated by its subsidiaries, it is P & O North Sea Ferries. Classified it is approved by Lloyd 's Register of Shipping. The ship has a gross tonnage of 59 925 gross tonnage and a capacity of 8,850 tons. The home port of the vessel with the call sign C6ZQ4 is Nassau.

As the Pride of Hull Pride of Rotterdam and her sister are too wide for a passage through the lock at Hull, a new terminal was built just for these two ferries on the Humber by Associated British Ports. The construction of the P & O ferry terminal cost about 14.3 million euros.

On 10 December 2008 broke aboard the Pride of Hull during the docking maneuver in Hull in the engine room, a fire that could be brought under control quickly, however, due to its low propagation.

Special

With its dimensions and transport capacities were the Pride of Hull and Pride of Rotterdam the same design from 2001 to 2004 the largest ro-ro ferries in the world. In 2004 this title was taken by the Norwegian Color Fantasy.