Christos XXIV

**Christos XXIV** p1
Ship data
flag	Panama
other ship names	Fair play IX;
Ship type	Deep sea tug
Callsign	HP3606
home port	Panama
Owner	IMS Christos XXIV
Shipping company	Spanopoulos Group
Shipyard	F. Schichau ( Bremerhaven , Germany )
Build number	1751
Launch	August 1970
Commissioning	February 1971
Whereabouts	in service
Ship dimensions and crew
length	49.47 m ( Lüa )
width	11.30 m
Draft	Max. 5.50 m
measurement	859 GRT
Machine system
machine	2 × diesel engines (Atlas- MaK 8MU452AK), each 1,324 kW
Machine ; performance	2,648 kW (3,600 hp)
Top ; speed	14 kn (26 km / h)
propeller	1 × fixed propeller in Kort nozzle
Others
Classifications	Germanic Lloyd
Registration ; numbers	IMO : 7041625
Bollard pull	55 tons (approx. 540 kN )

The tug Christos XXIV was built in 1971 as "Fairplay IX" at the Schichau shipyard in Bremerhaven for the Fairplay tugboat shipping company R. Borchard , today's name Fairplay tugboat shipping company Richard Borchard - Fairplay Towage . It was sold to the Greek Spanopoulus Group in 2011.

description

With a length of around 50 meters, width of 11 meters, draft of 6 meters, 834 GRT, 3600 HP and 55 tons (approx. 540 kN ) bollard pull , it was equipped with extremely large fuel tanks. This enabled him to carry out carry-overs over a period of around 90 days without re-bunking.

history

The tug was initially stationed in the port of Hamburg and was used for long-distance hauls around the world. Before it was sold, he had carried out kidnappings in long-haul service for around 40 years.

It was captured and kidnapped by pirates in Manila in May 1988. He was released after two weeks of wandering around Hong Kong.

In January 1990 he was involved in the recovery of the turbine tanker " Kharg 5 ".

When a pontoon was carried away in the same year, 18 Africans hid on the pontoon, who were only discovered shortly before the Netherlands.

literature

Hans Jürgen Witthöft: Fair play - that's what the name stands for . Chronicle of a German haulage company. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7822-0973-1 .

Web links

Homepage Fairplay Towage (accessed February 3, 2011)
Fairplay Tugboat Reederei Richard Borchard GmbH (accessed on February 3, 2011)
http://www.ctiedemann.de/de/presseinfos/include/unternehmensgeschichte.pdf (accessed on February 3, 2011)
Michael Hertel: Die Verschlepper , article in Magazin 11 (accessed on February 3, 2011)
Tugspotters (accessed February 3, 2011)
www.seatowage.de

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Ship data on Germanischer Lloyd ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2011 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. , accessed March 3, 2011 @1@ 2
↑ Spanopoulos Group: Tug Boat Christos XXIV ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2011 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. , accessed March 3, 2011 @1@ 2
↑ Press release of the Fairplay shipping company from January 26, 2011 , accessed on March 3, 2011

[gl-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Ship data on Germanischer Lloyd ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2011 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. , accessed March 3, 2011 @1@ 2

[2] Spanopoulos Group: Tug Boat Christos XXIV ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2011 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. , accessed March 3, 2011 @1@ 2

[3] Press release of the Fairplay shipping company from January 26, 2011 , accessed on March 3, 2011