[BITList] Fwd: [IrishSeaShips] NEWS: MV DEUTSCHLAND MUTINY

[M.j. Feltham]

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> From: "Irish Sea Shipping" <groups at irishseashipping.com>
> Subject: [IrishSeaShips] NEWS: MV DEUTSCHLAND MUTINY
> Date: 30 July 2012 12:08:35 BST
> To: <IrishSeaShips at yahoogroups.com>
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> The DEUTSCHLAND is a regular visitor to the Irish Sea and it appears there
> has been a bit of a row over the ship being reflagged from Germany to Malta.
> 
> Cruise ship mutiny over Maltese flag
> The German president was due on the MS Deutschland, Germany’s famous cruise
> ship docked in London, on Saturday, just days after a mutiny which saw the
> captain fired for opposing plans to swap the German flag for a Maltese one.
> 
> Captain Andreas Jungblut, 59, had captained the luxury cruise ship - made
> famous as the setting for the long-running Traumschiff television soap opera
> – for 13 years. 
> 
> But after he wrote a letter to German President Joachim Gauck on behalf of
> his crew protesting plans by the German Deilmann shipping company to hoist
> the Maltese flag in place of the German one, he was told to leave on
> Thursday evening by the owner, Bild newspaper reported on Friday.
> 
> “Dear Mr President … you can’t change a flag like you would an undershirt,”
> wrote Jungblut, according to the paper. On hearing of the letter, the
> shipping company asked him to leave the ship and not return, wrote the
> paper. The shipping company said the captain has been sent on “holiday.”
> “This is a uniquely dishonourable case in shipping, a captain being thrown
> overboard,” Jungblut told the paper. 
> 
> In 2010 Deilmann was taken over by finance investor Aurelius and now wants
> to sail the ship under a Maltese flag – in order to save money. “We
> definitely want to change the ship register,” a shipping company spokesman
> told the paper.
> Ships that are registered with the German flag have a right to sovereign
> protection in dangerous waters. They are also subject to German crew
> requirements and German labour law, all of which can push up running costs,
> wrote the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper on Friday.
> 
> “The crew of the Deutschland believe that our ship could sail very
> economically under the German flag,” wrote the captain in his letter,
> according to Bild. The Deutschland is currently moored on the River Thames
> in London for the Olympic Games, ready to bring German athletes home again
> on August 13, once the Games are over. The scandal took place just days
> before Gauck was due to visit the boat on Saturday morning for an Olympic
> Reception by the German Embassy in London.
> 
> Deilmann had wanted to hoist the Maltese flag earlier this month but had to
> postpone until August 16 due to protests from the crew – they insisted the
> German flag be flying when the president stepped aboard. 
> 
> The mutiny in London has caused outrage and an outpouring of indignant
> national pride at home in Germany. “I don’t think it’s right to damage the
> image of the MS Deutschland in this way now, when the whole world is looking
> at our dream ship,” creator of the Traumschiff soap opera Wolfgang Rademann
> told the paper. 
> 
> “I appeal to the shipping company’s patriotism and national pride: the dream
> ship must remain German!” said conservative CSU politician Stephan Mayer.
> Source : The Local / Maritime Clippings
> 
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