For the Dooley workers at Felixstowe
DFDS hopes to make history tomorrow when it unveils what it believes is the largest ship ever constructed out of Lego.
Company employees from around the world have been pitching in to construct the ship, and judges from the Guinness Book of Records will be present tomorrow to see if they have succeeded in their goal.
A whole lot of bricks
Multiple boxes of Lego blocks were delivered to employees at offices, terminals and ships throughout DFDS. Each ‘section’ were assigned a part of the ship to construct in the company’s trademark blue and white colours. The many separate sections were then sent to Scotland where they were assembled into the finished ship with the help of professional Lego builders.
Multiple boxes of Lego blocks were delivered to employees at offices, terminals and ships throughout DFDS. Each ‘section’ were assigned a part of the ship to construct in the company’s trademark blue and white colours. The many separate sections were then sent to Scotland where they were assembled into the finished ship with the help of professional Lego builders.
“All of our nearly 7,000 employees in 21 countries and on board ships have participated with great commitment and creativity,” said DFDS managing director Niels Smedegaard. “We are proud that our bid for the world record has the fingerprints of all of our employees from all locations.”
Wonder if they’ll use a champagne bottle?
DFDS chairman Bent Østergaard and Lauritzen Foundation head Inge Grønvold will christen the ship tomorrow, and judges from the Guinness Book of Records will reveal whether the ship can officially be called the world’s largest LEGO ship. After a tour around Denmark, the ship is heading to the Tall Ship’s Race in Blyth, England.
DFDS chairman Bent Østergaard and Lauritzen Foundation head Inge Grønvold will christen the ship tomorrow, and judges from the Guinness Book of Records will reveal whether the ship can officially be called the world’s largest LEGO ship. After a tour around Denmark, the ship is heading to the Tall Ship’s Race in Blyth, England.
The project was supported by the Lauritzen Foundation. The foundation distributes between between 25 and 30 million kroner annually for projects with social, cultural, educational and maritime focus.
It’s official: DFDS has built the world’s largest Lego ship
‘Jubilee Seaways’ sails into the Guinness Book of World Records
The only way, really (photo: Ray Weaver)
The sun shone brightly on the couple of hundred guests assembled as officials from the Guinness Book of World Records measured the Lego ship assembled piece-by-piece by DFDS employees around the world.
At 12.035 metres long and 1.67 metres wide, the newly-christened ‘Jubilee Seaways’ is the largest Lego ship ever assembled. As the record was verified, ‘The Crown Seaways’ sitting alongside the model in the harbour sounded its horn.
Inge Grønvold, the head of the Lauritzen Foundation, DFDS’s partner in the project, did the actual honours, christening the Lego ship with, what else, a champagne bottle made out of Lego.
A symbol
DFDS managing director Niels Smedegaard said the ship – constructed as part of the company’s 150th anniversary celebration – was a symbol of the many facets of the work of DFDS.
DFDS managing director Niels Smedegaard said the ship – constructed as part of the company’s 150th anniversary celebration – was a symbol of the many facets of the work of DFDS.
“We are shipbuilders. But this is perhaps the first time we have built the whole ship ourselves rather than had work done by other partners,” he said. “After 500 hundred ships of steel, this is our first built out of Lego.”
Smedegaard said the massive ship being pulled about on a lorry trailer was a symbol of the company’s logistics and shipping division.
“But normally it is our ships carrying trucks. This is the other way around.”
Something big for a big year
DFDS group marketing director Rikke Gransøe Lange said the project had taken nearly a year.
DFDS group marketing director Rikke Gransøe Lange said the project had taken nearly a year.
“When we thought of ways to celebrate something as large as a 150th anniversary, we knew it would have to be big,” she said. “So we did what we do at DFDS; we did something big together.”
To construct the ship, boxes of Lego blocks were delivered to employees at offices, terminals and ships throughout DFDS.
Each ‘section’ were assigned a part of the ship to construct in the company’s trademark blue and white colours.
The many separate sections were then sent to Scotland where they were assembled into the finished ship with the help of professional Lego builders.
Two weeks. Over a million bricks. Countless man hours, including time spent by 7000 people in 21 countries all over DFDS. It all culminated in an official Guinness World Records for Largest LEGO Ship (supported by a steel frame) in Copenhagen on August 17, 2016. The official measurements of Jubilee Seaways are 12.035m long, 1.67m wide, 2.72m high (to the top of the mast) and 2,860 kilos. That’s one big ship! #WorldsBiggestLEGOship #DFDS150 #JubileeSeaways
BRAVO !!!!!!!!!!!!Brilliant achievement
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