Camilla (ship)
 Photo of the abandoned Camilla in tow about 200 miles off the Newfoundland coast.
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The StoRo ship Camilla was launched in 1982 by the Kröger shipyard in Rendsburg for the Finnish shipping company Lundquist , Mariehamn . The type designation "StoRo" stands for "stowable roll on roll off", a special form of the RoRo ship . The Camilla made headlines in January 2003 after she drifted into a storm off Newfoundland with engine damage and the crew was recovered, and in September 2008 after the first scheduled north-west passage of a merchant ship.
The ship
The Camilla , equipped with many special facilities, belongs to the type of RoRo ships and has also been adapted to the special requirements of paper and cellulose transport. The ship has a bow and a stern superstructure. A smaller lower room with 4475 cubic meters and a large upper room with 11555 cubic meters are available for loading loads. The permissible deck loading is 5.0 tons per square meter. The permissible load on the upper deck is 1.5 tons per square meter. The 14.5 m long ramp available for ro-ro handling leads through a 10 m wide stern door to the upper room, which is connected to the lower and weather deck via a 60 t and a 30 t Navire lifting platform.
In addition, the Camilla has two combined side and upper deck gates, which are equipped with a loading platform and a 7-tonne lift each for faster transfer of paper rolls and cellulose bales. The Camilla has cabins for 12 passengers on board.
Machine system
The ship is propelled by a diesel engine of the type Stork - Werkspoor 12 TM 410 via a gearbox on a controllable pitch propeller. Two diesel generators with an output of 640 kilowatts each are available for power supply on board. The ship has a bow thruster and ice class 1A Super.
Accident in January 2003
On January 23, 2003, the Camilla , who was drifting in bad weather off Newfoundland after an engine failure, was drifting with no drive and was listing the Canadian Coast Guard for an air rescue. The crew of 17 at that time was then taken from the ship by helicopter and taken to St. John's .
The shipping company concluded a rescue contract according to Lloyds Open Form (LOF) 2000 with the rescue companies International Transport Contractors Management (ITC) and Titan Maritime (Titan). A salvage team from both companies began preparing a landing on board the damaged vessel, stabilizing the ship and establishing a tow connection. In the meantime the ITC salvage tug Kigoria set course for the Camilla .
Since the storm had meanwhile driven the Camilla over 300 nautical miles east of the Canadian coast, it got out of reach of helicopters.
The Kigoria arrived at the damaged vessel on January 25, and preparations for the removal began on the following day. A crew member of the Kigoria went overboard, but was rescued shortly afterwards. On January 27th, the chartered oil rig supplier Ryan Leet of the Secunda Marine shipping company advanced to the Camilla . The damaged vessel was now listing 25 degrees to port, with overtaking up to 45 degrees to port. Two men from Ryan Leet managed to board the Camilla in a Fast Rescue Boat and prepare the towing gear. After the towing connection was established, the Kigoria set off at four to five knots in the direction of St. John's.
The joint recovery team from Titan and ITC arrived at the tow train about 160 nautical miles east of St. John's on January 30th and found the damage to the Camilla . On February 1, the tug reached shelter in Conception Bay. Here the ship was stabilized as quickly as possible, as a blizzard approaching hurricane strength. After twelve days of recovery, the Camilla reached St. John's, where she was handed over to her owner.
Northwest Passage 2008
The Camilla Desgagnés passed through the Northwest Passage in September 2008 . It was the first passage of a cargo ship since the Manhattan in 1969. On November 28, 2008, the Canadian Coast Guard confirmed the success. De Camilla Desgagnés of the Desgagnés Transport shipping company supplied the Cambridge Bay , Kugluktuk , Gjoa Haven and Taloyoak settlements from Montreal in cooperation with the Arctic Cooperative, part of Nunavut Sealift and Supply Incorporated (NSSI) . When asked about the navigation conditions, a member of the crew reported that there was no ice en route. Although regular sea transport is a matter of course in the Canadian Arctic, this was the first time that the communities located far to the west were supplied by ship from the east.
literature
- Yearbook of shipping 1986. Transpress - VEB Verlag for Transport, Berlin 1986, p. 150 ISBN 3-344-00007-1 .
- Peer Schmidt-Walther, Finnexpress Camilla - Floating Landstrasse Kiel-Hanko-Kiel , Schiffahrt international 7/1989, Schiffahrtsverlag “Hansa”, Hamburg, pp. 284–285.
- Peer Schmidt-Walther, Finnexpress Camilla - Floating Landstrasse Kiel-Hanko-Kiel , Schiffahrt international 8/1989, Schiffahrtsverlag “Hansa”, Hamburg, pp. 370–371.
Web links
- Website about the ship (English; PDF; 149 kB) accessed on November 27, 2010
Footnotes
- ^ Report on the removal of the crew from the abandoned ship (English) accessed on December 1, 2010
- ↑ The Camilla accident at marcon ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ The passage of Camilla Desgagnés at cbc-news ( Memento of March 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ The passage of Camilla Desgagnés at alaskadispatch ( Memento of the original of October 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
