MS Pride of Rotterdam

The Pride of Rotterdam

Lloyd 's Register of Shipping

IMO number:. 9208617

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

Description

The Pride of Rotterdam 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 Rotterdam can carry up to 1,360 passengers. It has 3,300 running meters and can load 250 cars and more than 400 truck -trailer load. 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 of the built under the hull number 6065 ship took place on 1 March 1999. Originally she was Pride of Hull hot, but the name was changed before the launch on 29 September 2000 in Pride of Rotterdam. The Pride of Rotterdam was passed on 12 April 2001 in Venice, Italy, on the shipping company P & O North Sea Ferries. She was baptized on 27 April 2001 by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands on 30 April 2001 and entered their service on the route Rotterdam - at Kingston upon Hull.

The owner of the Pride of Rotterdam is Hampton Shipping BV, it is managed and operated by P & O North Sea Ferries. The home port of the vessel with the call sign PBAJ is Rotterdam. It is classified by Lloyd 's Register of Shipping. The ship has a gross tonnage of 59 925 GT.

As the Pride of Rotterdam and its sister Pride of Hull are too wide for a section of the lock in the port of Hull, two ferries were by Associated British Ports, a new terminal just for this built on the Humber. The construction of the P & O ferry terminal cost about 14.3 million euros.

November 21, 2005 played at the crossing from Rotterdam to Hull, the Dutch band BZN honor of the 40th anniversary of the Hull Rotterdam ferry crossing with the show program on the Pride of Rotterdam. On the return trip a day later, the group also occurred.

On 3 December 2008 a crew member went off the east coast of Britain overboard. Extensive search and rescue operations, among other things, eight motor lifeboats and helicopters of the Royal Air Force base Leconfield and the British Army airbase Wattisham Airfield, brought no success, have been hired and explained the crew member to be lost.

Trivia

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

In many ship simulation games, including " Ship Simulator 2008" and " Ship Simulator Extreme ", the player is possible to control the Pride of Rotterdam in regions around the world.