Benalder class

Ben Alder , Ben Avon and City of Edinburgh

The Ben Alder under construction at HDW

Ship data Ship type Container Ship Shipping company Ben Line Steamers and Ellerman Lines are operated by Ben Line Containers Shipyard Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, Kiel Construction period 1972 to 1973 Units built 3 Cruising areas Worldwide trip

Ship dimensions and crew length 288.82 m ( Lüa ) width 32.26 m Draft Max. 13.00 m measurement 58,440 GRT

Machine system machine 2 × geared turbine propeller 2 × fixed propellers

Transport capacities Load capacity ~ 49,500 dw Container 2804 TEU

The container ships Benalder , Benavon and City of Edinburgh were built in 1972/73 for the shipping company Ben Line Containers and were among the largest and fastest cargo ships in the world. They were third generation container ships .

history

The shipping companies Ben Line and Ellerman Lines founded the shipping company Ben Line Containers in March 1970 to bundle the joint container activities to the Far East. The Benalder and the Benavon were ordered by Ben Line Steamers, Ellermann Lines ordered the City of Edinburgh . The three ships were delivered between October 1972 and November 1973. The series of this ship class consisted of a further seven units of a ship type from Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in Hamburg and Kiel, which were put into service in 1972 and 1973. The first ship of the class was the Liverpool Bay, delivered in 1972, of the six-ship Liverpool Bay class . The Korrigan of the shipping company Messageries Maritimes was also part of this series.

The still unfinished Ben Avon in Kiel

Ben Line Containers three ships of the Benalder class, operated from 1972 together with Associated Container Transportations ACT ships the newly established joint Europe-Asia service. The majority of the other ships of the type also sailed on the Far East route, but for the competing TRIO service. Only the Korrigan , which was also intended for the TRIO service, switched to the ScanDutch consortium before it went into service . In 1991, Ben Line merged with Det Østasiatiske Kompagni (EAC), Copenhagen, who continued to employ all three ships (the City of Edinburgh had since been renamed Benarty ) until 1992/93 and then sold them.

Remaining career

After the end of the pool work at EAC in 1992/93, the sale to Maersk took place . After renaming, Maersk operated the ships until 1998. After that, the ships were sold to the Greek shipping company Danaos , which operated them for several years under the Greek flag and sold them to dropouts after the end of the charter in 2001.

The Benavon , for example, was first renamed Maersk Paris in 1993 and Paris Maersk in the same year , from 1998 it ran as Paris . She was canceled on November 15, 2001 in Jiangyin.

The Benarty was in 1993, after the sale to Maersk as Maersk Edinburgh continue to operate in 1999 Edinburgh renamed and finally reached in May 2002, the Chinese Xingang, where it was scrapped.

technology

The ship design of all sister ships in this new series was based on the Liverpool Bay class designed by Marshall Meek, the chief shipbuilding engineer and director of the Blue Funnel / Ocean Fleets design department belonging to the OCL, and was based on the experience gained with the Encounter Bay class . The twin-screw turbine ships with Panama Canal dimensions without stern with bulbous bow and transom stern belong to the so-called open ships , the cargo hold openings of which do not leave much space on deck for the upper structural bond. The superstructures and the engine room are located between the sixth and seventh hold. The eight rooms in cells accommodate 1086 20-foot containers and 418 40-foot containers. Additional layers of 352 TEU each could be used on deck. The ship type was powered by two geared turbines, each supplied by a Foster-Wheeler boiler with a steam output of 145 tons per hour. Power is supplied by two 1250 kW diesel generators and two 2500 kW turbo generators. There is also a 165 kW emergency generator on board. Two bow thrusters, each with 1000 HP output, with controllable pitch propellers and a fin stabilization system contribute to the improvement of maneuverability and the better sea behavior of the ship type.

literature

• Yearbook of shipping 1974 , transpress VEB Verlag für Verkehrwesen, Berlin, page 100
• Hans Jürgen Witthöft: Container . The mega carriers are coming. Koehler, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-7822-0882-X .

Web links

• Side through the first startup of the Singapore Benalder (English)
• Listing for the Singapore start-ups of Ben Line (English)

Individual evidence

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