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The European freighters of Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in Hamburg and Kiel were built in twelve units. One of the ships, the Sloman Ranger, overturned on June 12, 1981 after a collision in the Mediterranean Sea and was righted at sea and later repaired.
history
The ships
The ship type is based on the first two deck carriers developed by the Kremer shipyard in Elmshorn . The comparably designed but slightly larger ships Helena Husmann and Sigrid Wehr were commissioned by Kremer in 1978 and were the first ships of this type. HDW received the construction of the hulls as a subcontract from the Kremer shipyard, which had to file for bankruptcy during construction .
The HDW then developed three types of construction of the series marketed as European freighter, which are aligned at the measurement limits of 499, 999 and 1,599 GRT. The Sloman Ranger , delivered in 1979, was the first of ten identical 999-GRT full-decker units of the HDW that were built in Hamburg and Kiel for several shipping companies. The Bremen shipping company Sloman Neptun , which used its ships in the Mediterranean voyage , received the first five units . At the end of the series, there followed two free-deckers built by the Ross plant in Hamburg, also measuring 999 GRT, but slightly longer units with a greater draft, higher load capacity and more powerful MAN main engines.
The Europa Freighter is an open LoLo / RoRo multi-purpose motorized cargo ship with superstructures in the front and a continuous cargo hold with an aft RoRo ramp prepared for container transport . It can be used in container transport , for general cargo, bulk cargo or smaller project loads. The hold has a grain volume of 6,182 m³ (with inserted intermediate deck 5,510 m³). The tank roof of the hold is reinforced for the transport of heavy loads as well as provided with facilities for the transport of containers . The rear ramp, which can carry loads of up to 195 tonnes, can also be used as an alternative to loading rolling loads on a track length of 344 meters. The 68.26 meter long and 15.00 meter wide hatch is closed sea-tight with eleven MacGregor pontoon hatch covers, but could also be driven open to transport bulky loads. Movable bulkheads mean that the cargo space can be divided into smaller compartments or equipped with an intermediate deck. The container capacity is 319 TEU , of which 128 TEU and a third layer of 59 empty containers can be stowed on deck and 132 TEU in the hold. There are 20 connections available for refrigerated containers. The ships in the series have two electrohydraulic Liebherr cranes with a lifting capacity of 25 tonnes, which are attached to port and which can take over packages weighing up to 47 tonnes in coupled operation. In addition, the ships have four tanks for taking over 904 m³ of chemicals and five tanks for transporting 484 m³ of wine. The carrying capacity of the ships was 2,570 tons when they were built.
The ships' propulsion system consisted of two four-stroke diesel engines of the type Deutz SBV 8M 628. The engines produced a total of 2,118 kilowatts and propelled two fixed propellers via gearboxes . The docking and casting off maneuvers could be supported by a bow thruster with an output of 157 kilowatts. Two Deutz BA 6M 816 diesel engines, each with an output of 184 kW, and a Deutz F6L 912 emergency diesel with an output of 45 kW were installed as auxiliary motors.
Sloman ranger accident in the Mediterranean Sea
On June 12, 1981, on a journey from Rotterdam to Tripoli, the Sloman Ranger collided with the Japanese general cargo ship Artemis Island in the fog at around 6:30 a.m. , whereupon it quickly capsized. Captain Metz and three crew members were killed in the collision. Initially, the Turkish coaster Levent Deval towed the wreck and asked Sloman-Neptune to sign a Lloyd salvage contract. An Algerian frigate stopped the tug off the Algerian coast, cut the Levent Deval's towing connection to the Sloman Ranger and instructed the Turkish ship to enter the port of Tenes, where it was arrested for around a week. Soon after that was Sloman Ranger by Sloman Neptun personnel using the chartered tug Sertosa 10 twelve nautical miles northwest of the port Ténès found floating and later the tractor Smit-Lloyd 114 of the salvage company Smit Tak , the first in the sea area off Mostaganem had sought, in tow taken and brought to Cartagena. After arriving in the bay of Cala de la Salitrona near Cape Tinoso on June 17, the damaged vessel was first anchored to three chains and, after waiting for the weather to improve, two weeks later, using the two pontoons Giant 21 and Giant 22 , was raised again at sea. The damaged vessel was then towed to Cartagena and made seaworthy there before being towed to the Rickmers shipyard in Bremerhaven by the URAG tug Bremerhaven in 13 days . This repaired the ship from August 31 in around 100 days for about ten million marks before it was put back into service at the end of 1982.
The Bremerhaven Maritime Administration saw the cause of the collision in its ruling of February 11, 1982 that the Artemis Island changed its course to port on the one hand to avoid the close range and only changed this by about five degrees and beyond that it did not reduce its speed until the time of the collision . The measures and behavior of Artemis Island after the collision were also criticized as inadequate. On the part of the Sloman Rangers, the Maritime Administration criticized the fact that no helmsmen were available and that no fog signals were given.
Ammunition transport with the Puntland II
The Heinrich Husmann was purchased in 1987 for 6.5 million marks by the federal government and given away to a major overhaul of development assistance to Somalia. Under the name of Puntland II , she was used under the command of the former Astor captain Werner Wolkersdorfer, with Somali seamen being trained during operation. In December 1988, the captain and two German crew members discovered that on a voyage from Mogadishu to Sudan, the ship was loaded with around 60 containers with Chinese machine gun ammunition incorrectly declared as agricultural equipment , which was transported on behalf of a Saudi Arabian company. The development aid project was then stopped, but development aid as such was not canceled.
Construction list
| HDW Europe freighter | |||||
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| Building name | Shipyard / construction number |
IMO number | Client | Delivery / year of construction | Renaming and whereabouts |
| Sloman Ranger | HDW Kiel / 146 | 7812880 | Sloman Neptune, Bremen | March 6, 1979 | 1996 Yohana , so on the move |
| Sloman Record | HDW Hamburg / 147 | 7812892 | Sloman Neptune, Bremen | April 12, 1979 | 1995 Med Record , 1996 Sloman Record , 1997 Med Record , so on |
| Sloman rider | HDW Kiel / 148 | 7812907 | Sloman Neptune, Bremen | April 27, 1979 | 2002 Rider , 2003 Sloman Rider , 2006 Anamcara 2 , 2010 Petra 1 , scrapped in Alang in 2019 |
| Sloman Rover | HDW Hamburg / 149 | 7812919 | Sloman Neptune, Bremen | 1979 | 1989 Hipomar , 1993 Rawan 1 , 1999 Sea Crest , 2001 Karam Meru , 2002 Sea Crest , 2003 Karam Meru , 2006 Sloman Rover , NHO Padre Benjamin (2019), so in motion |
| Sloman runner | HDW Hamburg / 150 | 7812921 | Sloman Neptune, Bremen | November 20, 1979 | 2002 Confeed , 2009 Rosellen , scrapped in Aliağa from September 11, 2014 |
| Heinrich Husman | HDW Kiel / 155 | 7816082 | Ms. Husman, Haren / Ems | 1979 | 1987 Puntland II , 2001 Unity , deleted from the register |
| Adele J. | HDW Kiel / 156 | 7816094 | H. & H. Jüngerhans , Haren / Ems | 1979 | 1987 Serenissima , 1988 Adele J. , 1990 Agdal , scrapped in India from August 8, 2008 |
| Petra Scheu | HDW Kiel / 157 | 7816109 | H. Scheu, Rendsburg | 7th September 1979 | 1990 Micaela , 1997 Samira , 2000 Doña Margarita , Incasable (2019), so in motion |
| Bangui | HDW Kiel / 159 | 7816111 | Lignes Centralafricain, Bangui | 1979 | 1987 Amazonit , 1989 Rosellen , 2010 Carib Plus , 2012 Altamar , so in motion |
| Paoua | HDW Kiel / 160 | 7816123 | Lignes Centralafricain, Bangui | November 24, 1979 | 1979 Heinrich S. , 1985 Calypso I , 1985 Heinrich S. , 1994 Buxsand , 1994 Sloman Rover , 2003 Anamcara 3 , 2011 Caribana Express , so in motion |
| Tilia | HDW Hamburg / 162 | 7820241 | Heino Winter, Jork | 1979 | Sloman Royal , 1982 Tilia , 1994 Global , 1995 Helena , 1995 Northern Phoenix , 1998 Exotic Dolphin , 2010 Sanduga , scrapped from December 3, 2011 |
| Obotrita | HDW Hamburg / 166 | 7907336 | Eckert Brothers, Jork | 1980 | 1981 Oparis , 1991 Global Oparis , 1992 Oparis , 1996 Rugalson , 2001 Sabrina , intended for demolition on September 25, 2014, demolition in Aliaga in 2018 |
| Data: Equasis, large tonnage | |||||
Footnotes
- ^ Germanischer Lloyd: Register 1985, self-published, Hamburg, 1985.
- ↑ a b c New types of ships from Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG . In: Schiffahrt international , Vol. 30, No. 6, June 1979, pp. 256-258.
- ↑ The recovery of MS “Sloman Ranger” . In: Hansa - Schiffahrt - Schiffbau - Hafen , Vol. 118, No. 20, p. 1456.
- ^ W. Stürzer: MS "Sloman Ranger" rammed, capsized, stolen, recovered . In: Schiffahrt International , Vol. 32, No. 10, October 1981, p. 420.
- ^ "Sloman Ranger" emergency at sea - criticism of the behavior of the other party involved in the collision . In: Hansa - Schiffahrt - Schiffbau - Hafen , Vol. 119, No. 5, pp. 328/29.
- ↑ Green boxes . In: Der Spiegel , 6/1989, February 6, 1989, pp. 90-92.
- ^ Kathrin Eikenberg: Somalia . In: Afrika Jahrbuch 1989 , Leske + Budrich, Opladen, 1990, pp. 257–263.
- ↑ Equasis homepage (English)
- ↑ grosstonnage homepage (English)