MV Aurora (1955)
The coat of arms of Hamburg from 1955 was the first of the resorts ships HADAG Seetouristik and ferry AG ( nachmalig Fjord cruise line cruise industry ) with this name - of which the third coat of arms of Hamburg is the most famous.
It was built for the Heligoland ferry service and is in poor condition today as Faithful in Rio Vista, California.
- 2.1 Bunte Kuh (Stella Solaris)
History
Heligoland ferry service 1955-1962
In Blohm & Voss (then Steinwerder Industrie AG ) built it was used on the route between Hamburg and Helgoland. Due to its approximately 17.5 knots relatively low speed it replaced the HADAG after six years by a new building, the second coat of arms of Hamburg, which was faster with a speed of 21.5 knots. Due to the shorter lasting crossing the length of stay for day-trippers extended significantly to Helgoland.
Delos 1962-1967
The ship was sold in late 1961 for 375,000 pounds sterling to Greece and renamed Delos
Polar Star 1967-1970
In 1967 the ship was sold to Canada and used as the Polar Star for adventure travel in the polar regions.
Pacific Star 1970-1972
In 1970 the ship was sold to West Cruise Lines Ltd and renamed Pacific Star.
Xanadu 1972-1998
1972 was then renamed Xanadu, after it was taken over by Xanadu Cruises. 1982, the ship was a floating barge crab farm. Since the end of 1982, the former coat of arms of Hamburg was not reactivated and sold several times, in 1991 a reconstruction was planned as a children's hospital in the Caribbean, which was not realized.
Faithful 1998-2009
Appeared in 1998, the name Faithful. After a further sale in the year 2003, there should be renamed Xanadu2, but remained the old name exist.
Aurora since 2009
On 20 September 2005, the ship arrived in very poor condition under the name Faithful in tow at a shipyard in Alameda near San Francisco one. There, the name change was to take place in Aurora, which was initially but not carried out. In 2008, the Faithful was towed to Rio Vista. It lay there in December 2009. Was agreed between early plans for sinking as an artificial reef.
In September 2009, the Faithful was renamed Aurora and since then the ship will be restored. The ship should be taken to San Francisco, there to be set further repaired with the preliminary aim to use it as a restaurant and bring them back on track in the medium term. Meanwhile, the ship was again provided with a new coat of white paint still in very bad shape recently and soon we will be reactivated.
Sister ships
Colorful Cow (Stella Solaris)
The Colorful Cow ran in 1957 at the Norderwerft in Hamburg as a sister ship of the coat of arms of Hamburg from the stack. Your name they had. According to Simon of Utrecht 's legendary lead ship Bunte Kuh, which brought the pirate Klaus Störtebeker to 1401 route She was in service until 1963 Cuxhaven to Helgoland in use. After that, the ship was sold as Stella Solaris to Greece.