The very last voyage for the ship Lisco Gloria

Lisco Gloria with tug Claus

Sometimes you see amazing things at sea, things that blow your mind, or things that are so beautiful that you know that it will just end up as half beautiful and half overwhelming as a photograph. This is not one of these occasions. This is very sad and take your breath away because of completely different reasons. This is not how a ship should look. As a seafarer on a Ro-ro-ship of the same sort, our meeting with the Lisco Gloria made you think of the importance of safety. How it could end up very wrong very fast if you got fire on deck. Because, what you see, is a ghost ship on her last voyage to the ship yard.

Look how you can see right through the ship's hull. This is not how a ship should look like

The story about Lisco Gloria goes like this: She was built in 2001 at Stettin Wharf Stocznia Szczecinska (in A. Warskiego). Her first name was Golfo Dia Coralli, her second name Dana Gloria. Under her third name Lisco Gloria, and under lithuanian flag, she sailed the route between Klaipėda and Kiel. On 9 October 2010 in the Fehmarn belt, under her way from Kiel to Klaipėda, an explosion sounded from the car deck. The fire spread rapidly and soon the fire had engulfed the entire ship. All the crew and passengers where brought into safety, three persons suffered of smoke related injuries, but there where no deceased.

We met Lisco Gloria on her final journey to Klaipėda, where she is to be completely scrapped, in the southwest Baltic sea, just some miles north of Rostock. The german tug Claus are towing her. More information about her last voyage can be found here: http://www.kn-online.de/lokales/kiel/218239-Die-letzte-Reise-der-Lisco-Gloria.html (in german).

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