Bourbon Argos
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The Bourbon Argos is an anchor- handling tug from the Bourbon Offshore Greenmar and sails under the Luxembourg flag .
The ship was chartered to Doctors Without Borders in 2015 . The organization equipped it as a sea rescue ship .
ship
The ship is a 68 meter long anchor-handling tug. It was built under construction number 356 and completed in April 2013.
Technical data and equipment
The drive of the ship by two four-stroke - eight-cylinder - diesel engines manufacturer's MaK with 4000 kW power . The motors act on two controllable pitch propellers , both of which are equipped with a Kort nozzle . The ship also has two transverse thrust control systems in the bow and another transverse thrust control system in the stern area .
The ship has a dynamic positioning system (DP 2).
Two shaft generators with an output of 1600 kW each ( apparent output 2000 kVA ), two auxiliary generators each with an output of 350 kW (apparent output 438 kVA) and an emergency generator with 72 kW output (apparent output 90 kVA) are available for the power supply.
The bollard pull of the ship is 136 t.
The ship has a 420 m² open working deck behind the superstructure. A total of 800 t of goods and equipment can be carried here. The deck can be loaded with 5 t / m².
There are six single cabins, eight double cabins, two four-bed cabins and a hospital on board. A total of 30 people can be accommodated in the cabins.
Operations as a rescue ship
In 2015 the ship was converted for use as a rescue ship. Containers were set up on deck with an emergency room, an examination room, a dressing room, a room for hygiene materials and a store; a morgue was also set up. The ship is operated by the Maltese organization Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) and Doctors Without Borders. The Bourbon Argos can take between 300 and 350 people on board. A team of doctors, nurses, logisticians, water and sanitation experts and intercultural mediators is on board. 15 nautical crew members are responsible for the ship's technology. In addition to medical help for boat refugees in the Mediterranean, relief supplies are distributed to those who have been rescued.
On May 9, 2015, the ship left the port of Augusta, Sicily, for a four-month SAR campaign in the Mediterranean.
On August 6, 2015, more than 613 people were saved. Together with the second ship of MOAS, the motor yacht Phoenix , a refugee boat was saved from capsizing by convincing the occupants who could swim to jump into the water and hold on to inflatable buoys. The refugees came u. a. from Syria, Eritrea and Bangladesh.
On August 17, 2016, an unknown ship fired several shots in the direction of the Bourbon Argos , which was about 25 nautical miles off the Libyan coast. The MSF staff claimed that the ship was hit in the area of the bridge and that they then withdrew to the ship's shelter while strangers searched the ship. A Libyan Coast Guard commander later stated that warning shots were fired when the Bourbon Argos failed to comply with a request to identify themselves.
Web links
- Data sheet of the ship , Bourbon Offshore (PDF file, 1.8 MB)
Footnotes
- ↑ a b Bourbon Argos , Maritime Connector.
- ↑ Alessandro Penso: Doctors Without Borders intensifies search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean , Doctors Without Borders, May 11, 2015.
- ^ A b Bourbon Argos: Mediterranean rescue operations , Bourbon Offshore Greenmar September 22, 2015.
- ↑ Mediterranean: More than 600 people rescued from distress at sea , Spiegel-Online, August 7, 2015.
- ↑ Patrick Kingsley: Mediterranean rescue boat hit in armed raid off Libyan coast , The Guardian, August 25, 2016.
- ↑ Patrick Kingsley and Chris Stephen: Libyan navy admits confrontation with charity's rescue boat , The Guardian, August 28, 2016.