DG Harmony
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The DG Harmony was a container ship of the type BV 1800 .
General
The ship was built in 1990 under the construction number 1067 at Bremer Vulkan for the shipping company "Alle". It was initially launched under the German flag with its home port of Bremen (call sign: DEGM) and was used with various charter names. In September 1998 the ship was sold to Navigator Shipping, a subsidiary of Safmarine and CMBT Lines, for just under 16.5 million US dollars . She brought the ship under the flag of the Isle of Man as DG Harmony . At that time, the ship was chartered by DiGregorio Navegacao, which it used in the Independent Carrier Alliance's liner service between the east coast of the United States and Brazil . The ship management was assigned to the Hamburg company Leonhardt & Blumberg .
Technical data and equipment
The ship was powered by a seven - cylinder two - stroke diesel engine made by MAN B&W (type: 7L60MC). The motor with an output of 12,180 kW was built under license from Bremer Vulkan.
The container capacity of the ship was with 1,799 TEU stated. Of this, 708 TEU could be loaded in the three holds and 1,091 TEU on deck. A maximum of seven containers could be loaded one above the other on deck. There were 70 connections for refrigerated containers. All holds were approved for the transport of dangerous goods .
The superstructure was far aft . Before that there were a total of ten 40-foot bays. The ship was built without loading gear, but was retrofitted with three cranes for cargo handling in the mid-1990s . These were located amidships between bays 2 and 3, bays 5 and 6 and bays 9 and 10. Further containers could be stowed transversely between these bays.
Explosion and fire
On November 9, 1998 at around 7:20 am on board the ship, there was an explosion in hold 3. The explosion tore off part of the hatch covers of the hold. The ship that u. a. had ten containers on board, each loaded with around 16 t of calcium hypochlorite , was on a journey from the United States, where it called New York , Newport News , Savannah and Miami , to Brazil off the north coast of Brazil. At least one of these containers was the cause of the explosion after the calcium hypochlorite had warmed up considerably and after thermal runaway finally caused the explosion. As a result of the explosion, there was a fire that could not be fought with on-board resources. Some of the crew left the ship around 6 p.m. , and it was finally abandoned at around 2 a.m. The crew was picked up from the container ship Sealand Uruguay , which was located nearby.
The ship burned out completely over the next three weeks.
The containers were declared as class 5.1 dangerous goods and stowed on board in accordance with the stowage regulations of the IMDG Code . However, these only stipulated that calcium hypochlorite must not be exposed to a temperature of more than 55 ° C for longer than 24 hours. In fact, it turned out that the critical ambient temperature was only 41 ° C and thus well below the temperature specified in the IMDG code.
Whereabouts of the ship
The burned-out ship was towed to Curaçao , where it arrived in January 1999. It was declared a total loss and canceled in Tampico .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g In re M / V DG HARMONY and Consolidated Cases , United States District Court , Southern District of New York, October 18, 2005 (PDF, 2.3 MB). Retrieved August 22, 2018.
- ↑ a b c d In Re: M / V DG HARMONY , United States Court of Appeals , Second Circuit. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
- ^ In re M / V "DG Harmony" CofA DMC's Case Notes, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, March 3, 2008. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
- ^ A b In re M / V "DG Harmony" , DMC's Case Notes, Federal Court for the Southern District of New York, October 18, 2005. Retrieved August 22, 2018.
- ↑ US COGSA - Liability for Dangerous Goods , Steamship Mutual, March 2008. Retrieved August 22, 2018.