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37-450: BDS may refer to: Companies and organizations [ edit ] Bergenske Dampskibsselskab , a Norwegian shipping service Black Dragon Society , a Japanese paramilitary organization Blue Diamond Society , a Nepalese LGBT rights organization Boeing Defense, Space & Security Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions , political movement that advocates boycotting Israel in support of

74-546: A local airport network and road improvements. Operating subsidies were gradually phased out, and the operators put more emphasis on tourism. New, bigger and more luxurious ships were introduced in the 1980s, with attention given to hot tubs, bars, restaurants and other comforts. However, Hurtigruten still serves important passenger and cargo needs, and operates 365 days a year. The last two independent shipping companies, Ofotens og Vesteraalens Dampskibsselskab (OVDS) and Troms Fylkes Dampskibsselskap (TFDS), merged on 1 March 2006 as

111-721: A professional degree BeiDou Navigation Satellite System , in China Bonde da Stronda , a Brazilian musical group Burnham Double Star Catalogue Bush Derangement Syndrome , a U.S. political epithet Barbadian dollar often incorrectly "BDS$ ", the currency of Barbados (officially ISO 4217 code: "BBD") BDS, the International vehicle registration code for Barbados BDS-1 , a polypeptide BDS C , an early programming language compiler See also [ edit ] BD (disambiguation) , any of several entities that may be pluralized "BDs" Topics referred to by

148-463: A sister to Jupiter powered by steam turbines, newly built on the Tyne in 1920 by Armstrong Whitworth . In 1931, in response to a new route opened by Swedish Lloyd between Gothenburg and Tilbury, Bergen Line ordered a new Venus , a 20-knot motorship of 5,406  GRT , thus once again doubling the size of ship on the route. She maintained the service with Jupiter during most of the 1930s. In 1936

185-430: A twice-weekly winter service. Both ships were limited by their lack of drive-on car transport facilities, and Venus was withdrawn and broken up in 1968. Leda continued until its withdrawal in 1974 after steep rises in fuel prices. Some timetables from the 1930s and 1950s are available on the web. Individual ship histories are also available. The Hurtigruten opened in 1893 to convey passengers and cargo along

222-562: Is a list of ships sailing on the Hurtigruten. In order, northbound: As part of its slow television series, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation transmitted non-stop the Hurtigruten ship MS  Nordnorge 's 134-hour voyage from Bergen to Kirkenes , which started on June 16, 2011. Before World War II, a number of ships perished, usually because they ran aground in bad visibility. Most of

259-692: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bergenske Dampskibsselskab BDS progressively expanded its routes to provide worldwide services. The company operated a regular passenger service from West Norway to the UK with Norwegian Government support from 1890, and took part in the Norwegian coastal service, the Hurtigruten , from 1894 until 1979. Cruise liners were run from 1921 until 1971 when BDS partnered Nordenfjeldske Dampskibsselskab in setting up

296-601: The Hurtigruten Group , a year later becoming Hurtigruten ASA. In 2015 Hurtigruten was delisted from the Oslo stock exchange after the company was acquired by the private equity group TDR Capital . In addition to the voyages in Norway, the company operates expedition cruises to Greenland, Canada, South America, Iceland, Svalbard and Antarctica. The Ministry of Transport and Communications in Norway announced in 2017 that

333-586: The Royal Viking Line . At its height, between about 1920 and 1970, the company had up to 2500 employees. During World War II several BDS ships were sunk by Allied action on the Norwegian coast, including MS  Rigel in which over 2500 people died. According to the newspaper Bergens Tidende the Company profited highly from shipping contracts entered into with the German occupiers of Norway. At

370-709: The Hurtigruten can be found on the web. In 1923, the Russo-Norwegian Navigation Company, Limited was organized in London with the Bergenske Steamship Company, Soviet Company Severoles, and the Russian agency Arcos as principal participants. Alexey Krylov was a member of the board, "mainly to participate in the inspection and testing of the acquired steamers and to monitor the building of the ordered ones." He described

407-462: The Hurtigruten contract was split into three contracts. The contracts were put up for bid and in the end, two were granted to Hurtigruten AS and one to Havila Kystruten AS, with each operating seven and four ships respectively. The two companies will alternate departure days for the entire route from Bergen to Kirkenes. Havila Kystruten AS is building four new vessels to serve the route, while Hurtigruten AS will be refitting seven of its vessels to meet

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444-463: The Hurtigruten fleet was sunk during World War II. In September 1954 SS  Nordstjernen ran aground in Raftsundet at night. The ship started taking on water and eventually sank. Of the 157 passengers and 46 crew members on board, five died. On January 8, 1958, a fire broke out on board MS Erling Jarl while the vessel was docked at Bodø . Fourteen people died of smoke inhalation. Today

481-615: The Norwegian Government entered a contract with the two companies to increase the frequency of sailings to seven per week. According to Kielhau this was achieved by August 1914 at the start of World War I when the Bergen Line's contribution was provided by Venus , Vega (1,164  GRT ) and Irma (1,322  GRT ). From August 22 of that year all British mail for the Far East was sent via Newcastle and Bergen and

518-459: The Norwegian coast, initially from Trondheim to Hammerfest , later from Bergen to Kirkenes . At the start there were almost no lighthouses and other navigational aids in the north, and navigation was often done with a compass, chart and stopwatch. Until 1937 the company's ships were around 1,000  GRT but then, with Nordstjernen , the size was doubled. New ships built in the 1950s were also of about 2,000  GRT , and these continued on

555-774: The Tyne by Vega on Tuesdays and Saturdays also called at Stavanger and Haugesund. By 1945 both Venus and Vega had been sunk while in German hands, and the service was re-opened with Lyra (1,525  GRT ), a regular passenger service restarting in January 1946 on which she was joined by Astrea (3,190  GRT ). Jupiter took over from Lyra in March 1946. Vega' s main engines were salvaged in 1949 and installed in two ships, one of which continued in service until 1969. Venus had been discovered sunk in Hamburg harbour in 1945 and judged capable of rebuilding, and she reappeared on

592-463: The coastal route until the 1980s when larger passenger-cargo ships came into use, and into the 1990s when larger cruise-type ships of up to 15,000  GRT were introduced. By this time Bergenske Dampskibsselskab had sold its ships and withdrawn from the Hurtigruten . The Company contributed the following ships to the service from 1894 onwards: Photographs of most of these ships and others on

629-456: The company lost any individual identity. From a slow start the Company increased its ship numbers from 5 in 1875 to 20 in 1894 and over 45 by 1916 when unrestricted submarine warfare was introduced. The numbers were then increased from 35 in 1918 to 55 by 1939, reduced to 35 by 1945, with a modest increase thereafter. The UK passenger service ran between Newcastle and Bergen, with some sailings also calling at Stavanger and Haugesund. From 1928

666-511: The end of the war the Company's records were no longer in existence. The Company's management was investigated by Bergen police for 18 months, but no charges were brought. Under the name Bergen Line (not to be confused with the Bergen Line railway) passenger ships were operated between Newcastle , Stavanger, Haugesund and Bergen. These continued after 1984 when the company was taken over by Kosmos Line . After being sold again in 1988,

703-403: The first round-trip journey from Trondheim on 2 July 1893 bound for Hammerfest , with calls at Rørvik , Brønnøysund , Sandnessjøen , Bodø , Svolvær , Lødingen , Harstad , Tromsø , and Skjervøy . The ship arrived at Svolvær on Monday 3 July at 8pm after 35½ hours and at Hammerfest on Wednesday 5 July after 67 hours. She was commanded by founder of the route Richard With . At that time this

740-419: The long, dark winters. The company had for itself made detailed sailing instructions. Hurtigruten was a substantial breakthrough for communities along its path. Mail from central Norway to Hammerfest, which used to take three weeks in summer and five months in winter, could now be delivered in seven days. Encouraged by Vesteraalens' early success, several other shipping companies obtained a concession to operate

777-418: The new requirements. MS Eirik Raude , MS Trollfjord and MS Otto Sverdrup are all getting modernized and renovated with a scandinavian interior style similar to the expedition vessels MS Roald Amundsen and MS Fridtjof Nansen . The ships will be fitted with filters and LNG compatible engines in order to reduce emissions by 25%. The ships will also get hybrid motors, and battery packs. As of 2020, this

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814-441: The operations of the joint company in his memoir. The primary function of the company was to transport Russian timber from Arkhangelsk . The company was dissolved in 1928. Hurtigruten Hurtigruten ( lit.   ' Express Route ' ), formally Kystruten Bergen-Kirkenes ("coastal route Bergen - Kirkenes "), is a Norwegian public coastal route transporting passengers that travel locally, regionally and between

851-667: The peak season was covered by Jupiter and Venus , each with two round trips weekly. The next ship to be built for the service was Vega of 7,287  GRT , built by Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico of Trieste in 1938 to offset Italian purchases of fish from Norway. The two large twin-funnelled motorships maintained a summer service of four round trips per week until the outbreak of World War II , with departures from Bergen at 11.00 on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and from Newcastle at 19.30 on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Southbound trips from Bergen by Venus on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and northbound trips from

888-426: The ports of call, and also cargo between ports north of Tromsø . Hurtigruten provides daily, year-round and consistent traffic between Bergen and Kirkenes with 34 ports of call on northbound and 33 ports of call on southbound sailings. The Ministry of Transport and Communications in Norway has set minimum capacity requirements of 320 passengers, 120 berths and cargo for 150 Euro-pallets. The current agreement with

925-411: The privately held company Hurtigruten AS entered into force on 1 January 2012 and expired on 31 December 2019, with an optional 1-year extension. From 2021 the two companies Hurtigruten AS and Havila Kystruten AS will operate the route. As of April 2022, one of the ships of Havila Kystruten, MS Havila Capella, was taken out of service; because of sanctions as a result of the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine,

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999-470: The route became the only safe one for the exchange of personnel between the Western Powers and their Russian ally. In 1915 the service was joined by Jupiter (2,625  GRT ), built at Gothenburg and twice the size of previous ships on the route. Sailings were interrupted at the end of 1916 after four BDS ships including Vega had been intercepted and sunk by U-boats in two months; but Jupiter

1036-406: The route, extended to run between Bergen in the southwest and Kirkenes in the far northeast. A fleet of 11 ships visits each of the 34 ports daily, both northbound and southbound. Until the 1940s most ports north of Trondheim could not be reached by road from Oslo, so the sea was the only means of access. Beginning in the 1960s, the role of Hurtigruten changed, in part because of the construction of

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1110-451: The service in April 1948 with a larger profile which had the forecastle built one deck higher (6,269  GRT ). She maintained summer sailings from Newcastle and operated cruises from Plymouth to Madeira in the winters from December 1948 onwards, which also took advantage of the cargo opportunity provided by the import of fruit and vegetables to the UK. The last conventional passenger ferry

1147-631: The service terminated at the purpose-built Tyne Commission Quay, North Shields, only two miles from the Tyne piers and now part of the Royal Quays complex. The service continued after 1984 when the company was taken over by Kosmos Line. After being sold again in 1988, the company lost any individual identity. On 14 June 1888 the Norwegian Parliament agreed to support a weekly mail service from Newcastle to Bergen and Trondheim. Initially

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1184-408: The service was provided jointly by the Bergen Line and Nordenfjeldske. The Bergen Line vessel, Mercur (995  GRT ), inaugurated the service, departing from Bergen on 31 May 1890 at 9 p.m., arriving in the Tyne early on 2 June. In June 1893 the Bergen Line ship Venus (1,095  GRT ), built on the Tyne by Swan Hunter , entered the service and remained on regular sailings until 1931. In 1912

1221-448: The ship no longer had insurance; "the 4 ships of" the company were at that time financed by a Russian company. As of March 2023, Havila Kystruten has 2 out of 4 ships in operation, Havila Capella and Havila Castor. Havila Polaris and Havila Pollux is expected to be delivered before summer 2023. Hurtigruten was established in 1893 by government contract to improve communications along Norway's long, jagged coastline. Vesteraalen began

1258-493: The stricter emissions requirements. The four new vessels from Havila will run on LNG and battery power. LNG will cut CO₂ emissions by 25 per cent, and the battery power will yield additional savings. The vessels will be named Havila Capella, Havila Castor, Havila Polaris and Havila Pollux. All four vessels were built at Tersan shipyard in Turkey. Existing vessels from Hurtigruten will be modernized and renovated in order to meet

1295-413: Was TS  Leda (6,670  GRT ), delivered in 1953 by Swan Hunter and powered by steam turbines giving a speed of 22 knots, making her the only ship which could complete three round voyages weekly, and she did so during the 1950s and 1960s. From 1953 the service continued regularly for 15 years with Leda and Venus operating the summer service with up to five sailings per week, and Leda operating

1332-736: Was chartered by the British Government at £30,000 per year, with the replacement cost set at £200,000, to continue a service between Aberdeen and Bergen with a British crew and under the British flag, with priority guaranteed in a British shipyard for building a replacement should Jupiter meet with an accident. Normal regular services were restarted by Irma on 26 November 1918, followed by Jupiter on 18 January 1919. Nordenfjeldske withdrew in October 1921 but sailings continued with Jupiter and Venus , joined by Leda (2,519  GRT ),

1369-543: Was the fastest route between northern and southern Norway, and this resulted in the route being named Hurtigruten (express route). As of 2008, the Trondheim–Svolvær trip took 33 hours and the Trondheim–Hammerfest trip took 41 hours 15 min. Before Hurtigruten opened, only Vesteraalens Dampskibsselskab was willing to make the trip through the then poorly-charted waters; the voyage was especially difficult during

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