Esso Germany (ship)
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The Esso Germany was a crude oil tanker of the Esso Tankschiff Reederei in Hamburg. From 1976 until it was sold in 1985, she was the largest merchant ship under the German flag.
history
The ship was in 1974 by the Esso tanker Incorporated in Liberia in Kawasaki given -Werft Japanese Sakaide in order and there May 25, 1976 under the hull number 1233 lowered into the water . On October 6, 1976, the shipyard delivered the completed tanker Esso Deutschland to the Esso Tankschiff Reederei in Hamburg.
The 378 meter long new building replaced the Bonn as the largest German merchant ship. Early 1983, the now unemployed was Esso Germany , Norway launched . In October 1985 the ship was sold to the Grand Corporation belonging to the US conglomerate Loews, which continued to operate the tanker as a Grand . In 1990 the Grand was transferred to the Hellespont Grand Corporation, which was part of the Hellespont Group and renamed it Hellespont Grand . On September 12, 2003, the tanker finally arrived to be scrapped in Alang, India .
technology
The ship was designed as a pure crude oil tanker in single-hull construction. The deckhouse was located far aft over the engine room. The Esso Germany was mainly in transporting crude oil from the Persian Gulf used. The ship had 10 middle tanks, 16 side tanks and two slop tanks for the separation of washing water and oil. The load capacity was just under 422,000 tonnes, the cargo tank volume around 500,000 m³. Four main oil pumps, each with a capacity of 5000 m³ per hour, and a residual pump were available for cargo handling. The equipment included an inert gas system and a fire extinguishing system. The manifold with two loading arms of 16 tons each was placed a little more aft than amidships.
The propulsion of the ships consisted of a Kawasaki UL-450 steam turbine with an output of 45,000 hp, which gave its power to the individual fixed propeller via a reduction gear and enabled a speed of 15.87 knots . Two turbo generators and an auxiliary diesel were also available.
Name predecessor
On February 23, 1963, a ship called Esso Deutschland was launched at Howaldtswerft in Hamburg . The christening of the 260 meter long and more than 38 meter wide 90,187 ton tanker, whose geared turbine developed 27,000 hp, was carried out by Wilhelmine Lübke , the wife of the Federal President. In its time it was the largest ship in the German merchant fleet. In 1964 the ship was retrofitted with a bulbous bow . In November 1965 the ship ran aground off the Libyan coast, but could be made afloat again. In 1976 it was decommissioned for scrapping in Taiwan , as it was now only a medium-sized ship due to the decline in freight rates and should be replaced by larger units with proportionally lower fixed costs.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Like a will-o'-the-wisp in Der Spiegel No. 7/1986 of February 10, 1986
- ↑ Hans Henning Kroll: 80,000 saw the launch ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , In: Hamburger Abendblatt, Historical Archive of February 25, 1963.
- ↑ Klaus-Peter Kiedel: 50 years ago: The tanker 'Esso Deutschland' is the largest ship in the German merchant fleet. In: Deutsche Schiffahrt 35 (2013) 1, pp. 8–12.
literature
- The German merchant fleet 1984/85