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The Ever Decent is a full container ship owned by the Taiwanese Evergreen Marine Corp.
General
The Ever Decent was built in 1997 under the hull number 1222 at the shipyard of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Kobe , Japan . The keel of the ship was laid on April 23rd, delivery took place on November 6th, 1997.
Operating under the flag of Singapore , the ship is part of Evergreen's ten-unit D-series and was the second to be built.
In 2020 the ship was sold for demolition.
Technical data and equipment
The ship is powered by a twelve-cylinder - diesel engine of the manufacturer Sulzer (Type: 12RTA84C-UG) with 49,325 kW power driven. The engine, built under license by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, acts on a propeller . The service speed of the ship is 25 kn . The ship is equipped with a bow thruster .
Four diesel generators, each with an output of 1770 kW, are available for the power supply on board.
The deckhouse is located in the aft area about three quarters of the ship's length. The ship has nine holds equipped with cell guides . There are fourteen 40-foot bays in front of the superstructure, and another four behind the superstructure, the rearmost bay only being able to accommodate deck containers. Cell guides are also on deck for the two lower layers. On deck, the ship can load thirteen containers side by side (from the second tier) and up to six tiers on top of each other. There is a breakwater in front of hatch 1 to protect the deck containers from overflowing water.
The ship's container capacity is 4,211 TEU . There are 476 connections for refrigerated containers . The ship does not have its own loading gear .
collision
 
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On August 24, 1999, Ever Decent, then sailing under the Panamanian flag, collided with the cruise ship Norwegian Dream in the early hours of the morning . Both ships were in the traffic separation area running here in a south-westerly direction off the Dover Strait . The Norwegian Dream was on the voyage from Oslo to Dover as the last part of a Baltic Sea cruise , the Ever Decent was on the voyage from Thamesport to Zeebrugge and had to cross the traffic separation area for it.
The Norwegian Dream, as a vessel requiring evasive action, hit the Ever Decent at approximately a right angle on her port side. At the time of the collision, the weather was calm and visibility was good. The traffic in the traffic separation area was quite heavy. Both ships suffered considerable damage in the collision. On the Norwegian Dream , the stem was crushed several meters in length during the collision . The ship suffered further damage on the starboard side. Among other things, the protruding wing of the bridge was torn off in the collision with the deckhouse of the Ever Decent .
The Ever Decent suffered damage under the waterline from the bulbous bow of the Norwegian Dream, which caused water to penetrate. Numerous deck containers were destroyed or damaged in the collision, several of which went overboard. Several containers fell on the stern of Norwegian Dream . Some of the deck containers caught fire. Some of the containers on board the ship contained hazardous materials, including paint, hardeners and cyanides. Damage to the deckhouse was caused by the collision with the wing of the Norwegian Dream .
Due to the location of the collision on a busy shipping lane and close to the land, help was quickly on site, including helicopters from the coast guard , tugs and lifeboats from the RNLI from the Margate , Ramsgate and Dover stations , as well as the frigate Augsburg of the German Navy , which was located nearby .
It took several days for the deck containers that had caught fire to be extinguished.
The Ever Decent was later towed to Zeebrugge and examined there. In September the ship was repaired at Blohm + Voss in Hamburg and then put back into service.
When investigating the accident, u. a. found that both opponents were not properly complying with their obligations under the collision prevention rules . The right of way, Ever Decent , only radioed a few minutes before the collision with Norwegian Dream to change course in order to avoid a collision. The officer on watch in charge on the bridge of Norwegian Dream only let the engine run back to full speed a few minutes before the collision and put the rudder hard to starboard, but was no longer able to prevent the collision. The Ever Decent did not initiate any measures to avoid the collision apart from calling the other party. Even a last-minute maneuver failed to materialize or was initiated too late. Another factor contributing to the collision was that the officer on watch on the bridge of the Norwegian Dream received too much information from the radars and sometimes misinterpreted them.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Weekly Vessel Scrapping: 2020 Week 32. Ship & Bunker, August 13, 2020, accessed on August 14, 2020 (English).
- ↑ a b c Liner damaged in Channel collision , BBC News , August 24, 1999. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
- ↑ Vessel Particulars , Evergreen Marine (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
- ↑ a b c Report of the investigation into the collision between the passenger vessel “Norwegian Dream” and the container vessel “Ever Decent” in the approaches to the Dover Strait at 0055 on August 24, 1999 , Bahamas Maritime Authority, April 12, 2000 (PDF, 15 MB). Retrieved July 24, 2018.
- ^ A b Sarah Hall, Libby Brooks: Collision and chaos in the Channel , The Guardian , August 25, 1999. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
- ^ Norwegian Dream Collision Aug. 24, 1999 , Cruise Ship Sinking. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
- ^ A b Robert Verkaik: Law: Call a lawyer, we're sinking The Independent , September 7, 1999. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
- ^ Collision between Ever Decent and Norwegian Dream , Monitoring Implementation of the Hazardous and Noxious Substances Convention, International Maritime Organization, Annex LEG 85 / INF.2, September 19, 2002, pp. 1–2 (PDF, 268 kB). Retrieved July 24, 2018.
- ↑ Collision in the English Channel , Der Spiegel , August 24, 1999. Accessed July 24, 2018.
- ^ André Cichon: Logbook from 1989 to 2008 (new) , Bordgemeinschaft F-213, October 16, 2008. Accessed July 24, 2018.
- ^ A b Paul Hancock: Recurring Nightmare: 1999 Collision of Norwegian Dream , Shipwreck Log, October 30, 2015. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
- ↑ Aldo Chircop, Olof Linden (Ed.): Places of Refuge for Ships: Emerging Environmental Concerns of a Maritime Custom , Publications on Ocean Development, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2006, ISBN 90 04 14952 X , pp. 446–448 ( preview on Google Books ).
- ^ Kai Hoffmann: After the English Channel collision: Blohm + Voss repairs the ship of the accident , Hamburger Morgenpost , September 7, 1999. Accessed July 24, 2018.
- ↑ Ever Decent , Cargo-Vessels-International.at (PDF, 204 kB). Retrieved July 24, 2018.