Australian venture

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Ship data
flag AustraliaAustralia (trade flag) Australia
other ship names
  • MSC Nuria
  • Rio
Ship type Full container ship
Callsign 3FIE6
Owner Lombard Leasing Co & HBZ Finance AG
Shipyard Bremer Vulkan , shipbuilding and machine factory
Launch 1976
Whereabouts 2006 demolition
Ship dimensions and crew
length
248.60 m ( Lüa )
236.20 m ( Lpp )
measurement 44,144 GRT
 
crew 32
Machine system
machine 2 × MAN K8 SZ 90 / 160A diesel engines
Machine
performance 		39,200 PS (28,832 kW)
Top
speed 		23 kn (43 km / h)
Transport capacities
Load capacity 39,450 dwt
Container 2,700 TEU

The full container ship Australian Venture was a third generation container ship. It was the first and type-defining of five ships in a series.

history

In mid-1974, the Bremer Vulkan , Schiffbau und Maschinenfabrik shipyard in Bremen- Vegesack received an order from a New Zealand shipping group to develop and build five full container ships for use between Australia / New Zealand and European continental ports. After extensive towing tests, the client decided on a ship design without a parallel central nave and a wedge-shaped bulbous bow . The later practical testing under sea conditions confirmed the theoretically acquired knowledge with good results.

The Australian National Line shipping company from Melbourne was involved in AECS (Australia Europe Container Service) from October 1969 and left it in mid-1972 together with Associated Container Transportation to set up its own service. From May 1977, only shortly after the start of delivery of the Australian Venture series, both shipping companies re-entered the AECS service between Australia / New Zealand and Europe, which also included New Zealand from 1978/79 and then as ANZECS (Australia New Zealand Europe Container Service).

The ship

One of the refrigeration compressors for supplying the cooling rods of a refrigerated container ship

The Australian Venture was powered by 2 MAN K8 SZ 90 / 160A diesel engines with an output of 19,600  kW each. They worked at a speed of 122 revolutions per minute on a five-blade propeller each. The smooth-running eight-cylinder engines with automatic synchronization, which ensured that the machines ran in sync, proved to be inexpensive. For reasons of space when choosing the machinery, it was arranged in the half-aft area of ​​the ship.

The ship was designed for the transport of up to 2,700 TEU , which were covered in cargo holds closed by triple lids in the shape of a pontoon and driven to the upper deck. The ship had eight holds in front and four behind the superstructure. Connections to the on-board cooling system were available in the hold for more than 900 20-foot containers. They were refrigerated containers based on the porthole principle, which were supplied via cooling rods from ship-mounted cargo refrigeration systems .

The cooling system was monitored by digitized data acquisition with automatic control when calibrating the measured values. In addition to the usual navigation and radio equipment, the ship also had a Marconi Apollon II satellite navigation system that was modern for the time . In 1996 Lavicer Investment Corp., Panama, took over the ship under the management of the Mediterranean Shipping Company , based in Geneva . It was named MSC Nuria with its home port Panama . In 2006 it was renamed again under the same owner in Rio and in December of the same year it was stranded for demolition in Alang in India.

literature

  • K. Dreßler: Yearbook of Shipping 1979 . transpress VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin, p. 76

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