The “Funny Girl” is on the way back from Heligoland to Büsum. Then there is a power failure in the engine room. Almost 250 passengers have a long journey ahead of them.
Büsum – The maneuverable Heligoland ferry “Funny Girl” with almost 250 people on board reached the mainland early in the morning after hours of sailing on the North Sea. The passenger ship was brought to the port of the Schleswig-Holstein community of Büsum by two tugboats, as a reporter from the German Press Agency reported.
The ship was actually supposed to be back in Büsum on Sunday evening around 7:30 p.m. But nothing came of it. There was a power outage on board, as a spokesman for the Elbe-Nordsee Waterways and Shipping Authority (WSA) told the German Press Agency. According to the office, such a failure is not unusual and can usually be remedied using on-board tools – but not in this case. The ship’s crew contacted the traffic center at around 5:30 p.m.
Both generators failed
According to the “Hamburger Abendblatt”, an electrical switchboard for the engine room had stopped working. Because of this, both generators failed, the cooling of the machines and thus the machines themselves. According to the report, the emergency generator was unable to feed electricity into the grid. A spokesman for the Elmshorn police said there were almost 250 passengers on board. dpa
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