MS Dalmatia

MS Dalmatia at Split, Croatia, in 2011
History
Name	Pomerania (1978–2011) Dalmatia (2011–2014)
Owner	Polish Baltic Shipping Company (1978–2011) Blue Line International (2011–2014)
Port of registry	Kołobrzeg, Poland (1978–??) Nassau, Bahamas (??–2011) Panama (2011–2014) Cyprus (2014)
Ordered	1 May 1972 [1]
Yard number	B490/01
Laid down	4 October 1976 [1]
Launched	31 May 1977 [1]
Completed	June 1978 [1]
In service	1978–2014
Identification	IMO number:  7516761
Fate	Dismantled in Alang, India in 2014
General characteristics [1]
Type	Cruiseferry
Tonnage	12,087  GT 4,453  NT 1,856  DWT
Displacement	7,957 tons
Length	127.44 m (418 ft 1 in)
Beam	21.7 m (71 ft 2 in)
Height	37.5 m (123 ft 0 in)
Draft	5.64 m (18 ft 6 in)
Depth	12.36 m (40 ft 7 in)
Ice class	1B
Installed power	4 ×  Sulzer 6ZL40/48 (4 × 3,150 kW)
Propulsion	Two shafts; controllable pitch propellers Two bow thrusters
Capacity	148 cabins 476 berths 508 unberthed passengers 277 cars 468 m (1,535 ft) of ro-ro cargo
Crew	90

MS Dalmatia was a cruiseferry owned by the Croatia-based ferry operator Blue Line International operating the Ancona - Hvar route. She was built in 1978 as MS Pomerania for Polferries. ^[2]

In 1994, she had a minor collision (referred to as a "scrape") with another cruiseferry, MS Silja Europa. ^[3]

She was inserted on the Swinoujscie - Kopenhagen - Felixstowe route. The route was changed in 1979 to Helsinki - Nynäshamn - Gdynia. In 1980 the ship was rented to Kalmar Line for its Kalmar - Rönne route. Kalmar Line was bankrupt in July 1980 and the ship was inserted to Polferries Karlskrona - Gdynia route. The ship was rented again in 1982 to Cotunav between Genua/ Marseille - Tunis. The ship was returned to Polferries two months later. The ship was inserted on the Swinoujscie - Malmö route in 1995. The route was changed again in 1997 to Malmö - Swinoujscie. In 2011 the ship was sold to Blue Line for their Split - Ancona route. The ship was dismantled in Alang, India in 2014.

References

1. "Dalmatia (7516761)" . Sea-web. S&P Global . Retrieved 2018-04-25.
2. "M/S Pomerania" (in Swedish). faktaomfartyg.se.
3. "MS Pomerania naarmutti Silja Europaa Helsingissä" [M/S Pomerania scratched M/S Silja Europa in Helsinki]. Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). 1994-01-19. The M/S Pomerania that was docking in the south port of Eteläsatama was scratching M/S Siljan Europa on the pier on Tuesday afternoon in Helsinki. The accident was apparently due to ice control, which the captain of the Pomerania could not take into account.