CP Valor
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The CP Valor was a container ship put into service in 1979 . After an accident , the ship sank off the Azores in 2006 .
history
The ship was on the Japanese shipyard Namura Shipbuilding Company in Imari built, ran there on December 28, 1978 from the pile and was established in March 1979 as Seatrain Oriskany delivered. After several changes of ownership and renaming, the ship was used for the shipping company CP Ships as CP Valor in transatlantic traffic from August 25, 2005 .
Average
On the morning of December 9, 2005, a cylinder in the ship's diesel engine failed on the journey from Montreal to Valencia . After consulting with the shipping company, the captain decided to take a reduced voyage to Faial in order to be able to carry out the necessary repairs in a sheltered bay. The bay of Praia do Norte ( Baía da Praia do Norte in Portuguese ) was used as the anchorage. An anchorage was entered there on the existing nautical chart , but with a scale of 1: 175,000 it was not suitable for navigation near the coast. Due to insufficient preparations and arrangements for the anchor maneuvers that ran CP Valor at 17:09 with six nodes ride (about 11 km / h) due .
Attempts to get free again with the power of the machine failed. The hull was still intact at this point , and no water ingress or oil pollution could be detected. Coming from Horta the port tug Ilha de São Luis arrived at around 9 p.m. , but even with combined forces it was not possible to get the ship free again. When the tow rope broke, the tug returned to Horta overnight. Another tow attempt the next morning was also unsuccessful. In the morning the wind began to change and the CP Valor was pushed 145 m closer to the coast by the current. In this situation the hull began to break at the dirty oil tank. In the afternoon, the full length of the double bottom also gave way and the escaping marine fuel caused severe oil pollution in the bay.
Around 4 p.m. the rescue tug Fotiy Krylov reached the scene of the accident. During his crossing from Ponta Delgada , those involved had agreed to the Lloyd's Open Form . The Ilha de São Luis , with its shallower draft, was used to make the towing connection to the Fotiy Krylov . A line got caught in a propeller of the rescue tug. The divers of the Fotiy Krylov could not clarify the situation on site and so this tow attempt had to be canceled. Both tugs left the bay. The weather became increasingly bad and a strong north-west wind with corresponding surf caused further damage to the ship and the deck cargo.
On December 12th, the tugs were back on site and tried one last time to get the damaged vessel free. The persistently bad weather and a sandbank that had formed in front of the CP Valor led to the rescue attempts being abandoned. The dangerous and some empty containers were then incubated with helicopters disembarked. On December 25, 2005, the ship was declared a loss and abandoned .
Salvage
The Dutch salvage company Svitzer Wijsmuller received the order in April 2006 to remove the remains of the ship from the bay. The tugs Battleaxe , Ayton Cross and Remo were used for the work , a crane barge was anchored on the land side of the CP Valor and the jack-up crane barge MEB-JB1 was erected on the sea side. The rescue team was able to reach the wreck at any time and regardless of the weather via a rope bridge .
 
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At the same time, the remaining containers were unloaded and the deck structure removed. Barges were used for removal. To make the CP Valor as light as possible, the engine rooms have also been gutted. Penetrating water was repeatedly fought with bilge pumps and compressed air . Finally, the wreck was pulled into a seaward position with an anchored pulling system.
The anchor- handling tug Maersk Achiever with a bollard pull of 271 tbp was able to pull the hull of the CP Valor back into deep water on September 20, 2006. The wreck was examined for buoyancy off the coast, but the damage was so severe that it later sank about 18 nautical miles (33 kilometers) northwest of Faial .
Web links
- "CP Valor" encalha na Praia do Norte. Chronological sequence (part 1). September 15, 2006, accessed March 28, 2016 (Portuguese).
- "CP Valor" encalha na Praia do Norte. Chronological sequence (part 2). August 10, 2006. Retrieved March 28, 2016 (Portuguese).
- CP Valor - Wreck removal at the Azores. Half-hour film about the rescue work of Svitzer Salvage on Youtube. March 24, 2014, accessed March 28, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ OOCL Assurance data sheet. (PDF) October 15, 2006, accessed on March 27, 2016 (English).
- ↑ a b c Report on the investigation of the grounding of the vessel CP Valor in Baia da Praia do Norte, Faial, Azores on December 9, 2005. (PDF; 924 kb) Marine Accident Investigation Branch , August 17, 2006, accessed on 25 March 2016 (English).
- ↑ 19t dangerous cargo recovered from the CP Valor. Azores news, December 31, 2005, accessed March 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Boxship salvage underway in Azores. Maritime Journal, June 1, 2006, accessed March 29, 2016 .
- ↑ CP Valor removal completed. Maritime Journal, October 1, 2006, accessed March 29, 2016 .
- ↑ IMO 9245902