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The Celtic Explorer is a research vessel for the Irish Navy Institute. The ship is managed by P&O Maritime Ireland.
history
The ship, which was ordered in December 2000, was built by the Damen Shipyards Group in Gorinchem , the Netherlands . The hull was delivered under the hull number 997 by Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania . The ship's design came from the Norwegian company Skipsteknisk. The ship was completed in December 2002. The ship was christened in Galway in April 2003 . The construction costs amounted to around 23 million IEP .
Since 2011, the ship has been chartered repeatedly by the BSH for research trips in the North Sea.
Technical specifications
The ship is powered by diesel-electric technology . For Propulsion Two Indar- electric motors , each with 1,500 kW power available. The motors act directly on a fixed propeller . The power supply of the drive motors and the electrical system is provided by two Wärtsilä - diesel engines (type: 9L20) each with 1,620 kW power ( the apparent power : 1,875 kVA ) and a Wärtsilä Diesel engine (type: 6L20) 1,080 kW (apparent power: 1,250 kVA). The motors each drive an Indar generator. A Caterpillar emergency generator with an output of 125 kW (apparent output 150 kVA) was also installed.
The ship is equipped with a bow thruster with 700 kW power and a stern thruster with 400 kW power. The electrically powered bow thruster is designed as a water jet drive. The stern thruster has a controllable pitch propeller .
The hull of the ship is reinforced with ice ( ice class 1D). The ship is equipped with a dynamic positioning system (DP1) and a fin stabilizer .
The ship meets the requirements of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea with regard to the emission of underwater noise (ICES 209) and was considered the quietest research ship in the world at the time of commissioning.
Furnishing
The ship has six decks . It is equipped with a 75 m² dry laboratory and a 70 m² wet laboratory as well as various workshops. Seven 20-foot containers can be loaded on deck, thus increasing the laboratory capacity.
The working area on deck is 165 m². At the stern of the ship there is a stern boom with a lifting capacity of 25 t. In addition, the ship has other lifting tools, including three cranes with lifting capacities of 1.5, 6 and 16 t and various winches . It is also equipped for the use of ROV . The ship has various sonar and echo sounder systems for research .
The ship is equipped with a work boat that can operate in shallow water. The work boat is lowered into the water via a davit . There is a crow's nest in the mast above the deckhouse , which can be used in particular as a lookout for observing marine mammals .
On board the ship there is space for 35 people, 13 to 15 crew members and 20 to 22 scientists. A total of 13 cabins are available for the scientists, nine double and four single cabins. The ship can stay at sea for up to 35 days.
literature
- Celtic Explorer: Vital research vessel. In: Significant Small Ships of 2003. A Publication of The Royal Institution of Naval Architects. The Royal Institution of Naval Architects, 2004, ISBN 0-903055-96-1 , pp. 12-13.
- Celtic Explorer. In: Schip en Werf de Zee. April 2003, pp. 30-32, ISSN 0926-4213 .
- Low-noise diesel-electric propulsion , HSB International, July / August 2002 (PDF; 818 kB).
Web links
- Ship information , Marine Institute
- Brochure , Marine Institute (PDF; 1.3 MB)
- Vessel User Guidelines (PDF; 1.1 MB)
- Specifications / General Layout ( Memento from September 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), Marine Institute (PDF; 774 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Celtic Explorer , Skipsteknisk. Retrieved September 22, 2017.
- ^ Celtic Explorer , Maritime-Connector.com. Retrieved September 22, 2017.
- ^ Fleet , P&O Maritime. Retrieved September 22, 2017.
- ↑ a b c d Sophisticated Celtic Explorer Delivered by Damen , MarineLink, February 19, 2003. Retrieved September 22, 2017.
- ↑ Lorna Siggins: State to purchase £ 23m marine research vessel , The Irish Times , December 20, 2000. Accessed September 22 2017th
- ^ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: BSH researchers for the 20th time on a North Sea trip. THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung , August 3, 2017.
- ↑ Fishery research vessel Celtic Explorer , Wärtsilä Encyclopedia of Marine Technology, Wärtsilä. Retrieved September 22, 2017.
- ^ RV Celtic Explorer , Scientific references, Kongsberg Maritime AS . Retrieved December 14, 2017.