The LNG carriers buses joke was in 1983 by the DSR Rostock (DSR), the state shipping company of the German Democratic Republic into service posed tanker for ammonia transport between Baltic ports of the former USSR and Rostock. It was primarily used to supply the newly built VEB fertilizer plant in Rostock, south of Rostock, near the village of Bussewitz .
On August 27, 1983, the ship floated up in the construction dock in Kiel . The painting of the hull with red paint was unusual for a Deutfracht / Seereederei ship. Usually the hulls of the shipping company were painted light gray. On June 18, 1990 Bussewitz was transferred to Deutsche Seereederei GmbH Rostock. A time charter with Norsk-Hydro A / S, Oslo begins on March 2, 1992. In 1993 the ship was re-measured with BRZ 14377 and tdw 13935. On January 1st, 1994 the shipping company F. Laisz GmbH Rostock took over the tanker and in 1994 the Deutsche Seereederei Rostock Bulkschifffahrts GmbH Rostock. It was passed on on February 13, 1997 in Middlesbrough to Venus Shipping & Trading Company, Monrovia . Until September 27, 2006 the ship was named Bussewitz , then the new name BW Havlys . The ship was decommissioned at the beginning of 2013 after 30 years of service and was scrapped in Aliağa on March 20 of the same year.
The ship
The ship launched at Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft HDW was suitable for the transport of ammonia and other liquefied gases such as butane , 1,3-butadiene and propylene . The cargo tanks, designed for temperatures down to minus 48 degrees Celsius, in the form of four horizontal double cylinders, were housed in four cargo holds that were separated from each other in a gastight manner. The double tanks were stored on fixed and slide bearings adapted to the tanks. This enabled temperature-related material stresses in the tank walls to be compensated. In order to keep the temperatures in the tanks low during the empty voyage, a cargo remainder of around one hundred tons remained in the tanks. A seawater fire extinguishing system, a water spray system, a CO 2 extinguishing system, a dry powder extinguishing system as well as smoke alarm systems and automatic fire flaps were installed on the ship as fire extinguishing equipment. The ship has received the Norsk Hydro Safety Award for several years in a row . A MAN diesel engine, manufactured under license by VEB Maschinenbau Halberstadt, was installed as the drive system, which acts directly on the controllable pitch propeller. Single cabins, a swimming pool, a sauna and a sports and hobby room were available for the crew.
literature
German shipping companies Volume 23 VEB Deutsche Seereederei Rostock Author collective Verlag Gert Uwe Detlefsen ISBN 3-928473-81-6 page 294
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