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Fåborg-Gelting Line

(Nordisk Færgefart A/S)

 

 

This page is devoted to postcards of the Fåborg-Gelting Line, run by Nordisk Færgefart A/S, Faaborg, Denmark. An alphabetical list of ships shown on this page is shown below. The Table beneath gives links to complete postcard history pages on selected individual ships. Below the table are official postcards of the fleet in chronological order.

 

Route map of Fåborg-Gelting Line.

 

 

 

hips on This Page:-

Sydfyn

Gelting

Gelting Nord

Gelting Syd

 

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Table of Ship Histories

Name	Other names	Built
Gelting Nord	Apollo, Olau Kent, Benodet, Corbiere, Linda 1	1970
Gelting Syd	Stella Scarlett	1974

 

 

 

 

 

Fåborg-Gelting Line Fleet List

 

 

Sydfyn (1965-76)

 

Sydfyn was built in 1965 by Flensburger Schiffbaugesellschaft for Nordisk Færgefart A/S, Faaborg, Denmark. She operated on the Gelting-Faaborg route until replaced in 1976 by the Gelting. She was sold to Jadranska Linijska Plovidba (Jadrolinija) as the Vis, remaining in service in 2001.

Official Fåborg-Gelting Line postcard of Sydfyn.

 

 

Joachim Eicke postcard 67 284 of Sydfyn.

 

 

Official Faaborg-Gelting postcard of the ferry Sydfyn

Photo: Walter Hofacker, Eckernförde, no. 1371-5

Scan supplied by Jörg Luke Sølyst

 

 

Herst und Verlag Schöning & Co (serial: Gelting 12)

Scan supplied by Jörg Luke Sølyst

 

 

 

 

 

Gelting (1975-88)

 

Gelting was originally built in 1963 at Orenstein-Koppel und Lübecker Machinenbau, Lübeck for Sundbusserne A/S, Helsingør, Denmark. Before entering service, she was sold to Moltzau Line A/S, Gedser, Denmark, entering service in 1963 between Gedser and Travemünde as the Gedser. She had a sistership Travemünde. In 1968 Gedser was sold to Juelsminde-Kalundborg Linien A/S, Kalundborg, as the Mille (I). In 1969 she was chartered to Lion Ferry for service between Grenå and Varberg. In 1970 ownership passed to Jydsk Færgefart A/S, Kalundborg. Mille (I) was sold to Nordisk Faergefart A/S, Faaborg, Denmark in 1975, for use between Gelting and Faaborg as the Gelting. She was replaced by newer tonnage and chartered out for various services, including previous owners Jydsk Færgefart, until sold to Consolidada de Ferry Ca, Caracas, Venezuela in 1988. She was sold for breaking up in 2002.

 

 

Official Fåborg-Gelting Line postcard of Gelting.

1000 passengers - 125 cars.

 

 

Cramers postcard serial number gelt502 81/6 of Gelting, at Gelting.

 

 

Gelting at Faaborg.

Stenders Forlag, no. 149 503 019.

Scan supplied by Jörg Luke Sølyst.

 

 

 

 

 

Gelting Nord (1981-91)

 

Apollo (II) was the first of a series of six similar ships delivered to Viking Line partners by the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg (a further three ships were delivered to a Mexican company). Apollo (II) carried 1200 passengers and 260 cars. She served on the Kapellskär-Mariehamn-Naantali route, but was sold after only six years to Ole Lauritzen in 1976 for use on his Sheerness-Vlissingen service of Olau Line. Olau Line was sold to TT-Line in 1978, but Olau Kent remained in Lauritzen ownership, and was chartered to Olau Line. In 1980 she was arrested due to debts accrued by owner Ole Lauritzen's subsequent failed Dunkerque-Ramsgate service. Olau Kent was purchased by Nordisk Faergefart in 1981, for use on their Fåborg-Gelting service as Gelting Nord. In 1982, she was transferred to a new service between Hundested (Denmark) and Sandefjord (Norway). This service was terminated in 1984 when a charter was obtained for Gelting Nord from Brittany Ferries, who renamed her Benodet. She was sold to Estline in 1991, returning to original name Apollo (II).

 

A complete postcard history of this ship is available on this link.

 

 

Official Fåborg-Gelting Line postcard of Gelting Nord.

Scan supplied by Jörg Luke Sølyst.

 

 

Gunter Walberg (Kappeln) postcard 8267 of Gelting Nord off Gelting.

 

 

Official Hundested-Sandefjord Linen postcard of Gelting Nord.

 

 

Luftbilddienst Schleswig-Holstein, no. 86178.

Scan supplied by Jörg Luke Sølyst.

 

 

 

 

 

Gelting Syd (1981-99)

 

Gelting Syd was originally built in 1974 by Jos L Meyer, Ems Papenburg, as the Stella Scarlett, for Skandinavisk Linjetrafik, part of Scandinavian Ferry Lines. She was used on a route from Landskrona to Copenhagen (Tuborg Haven). From 1980, the Swedish terminal was changed to Malmö. In 1981 Stella Scarlett was sold to Nordisk Faergefart A/S, Fåborg, for use on the Faaborg-Gelting route as Gelting Syd. The route was closed in 1999, following the end of on board duty free sales between EEC countries, and Gelting Syd was sold for use between Tangier and Cadiz (later Algeciras-Tangier).

 

More postcards and photographs of this ship are available on this link.

 

 

Official Faaborg-Gelting Line postcard of Gelting Syd.

 

 

Official Faaborg-Gelting Line postcard of Gelting Syd.

 

 

O.P.O postcard serial 8712-3 of Gelting Syd at Fåborg.

 

 

1987 brochure for the Faaborg-Gelting Line featuring Gelting Syd.

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