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The first installation of the DCC system was actually in a
building rather than a ship – the Rosengårds Centre, a large
shopping mall on the south-eastern outskirt of Odense
which the architecture firm of Jørgen Stærmose designed
and which was inaugurated in 1971 (the centre has since
been greatly expanded).
Soon, however, they were fitted throughout the accommodation and also in the vehicle decks of two new ferries being
built by the Elsinore Shipyard for Jydsk Færefart’s Danish
domestic route between Juelsminde and Kalundborg. The
Djursland and the Kattegat both entered service in 1972 but
were sold overseas already by the latter 1970s on account
of the 1973 Oil Crisis, resulting from Arab OPEC nations cutting production with a consequent sharp rise in the cost of
fuel, necessitating consolidation of ferry routes.
Remarkably, after a very lengthy and varied subsequent
existence, the former Kattegat still exists, having been converted into an adventure cruise ship named Expedition.
Even more remarkable is that the original Dæmpa DCC ceiling in its restaurant remains intact and looking exactly as it
did 54 years previously when the ship was newly-completed.
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