FWN Rapide
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The FWN Rapide is a multi - purpose freighter of the type Damen Combi Freighter 10500 built in 2005. The ship was attacked by pirates off Nigeria in April 2018 and part of the crew was abducted.
history
The ship was built in 2005 under the hull number 841 as one of several structurally identical ships from Damen Shipyards . The hull was built by Damen Yichang Shipyards, the equipment was carried out at Damen Scheepswerf Hoogezand. The ship was delivered to a one-ship company in August 2005. The employment of the ship took over Carisbrooke Shipping in Cowes on the Isle of Wight . The ship sailed under the flag of the United Kingdom as Emily-C with home port Douglas . The ship was partially financed by a closed fleet fund launched by HCI Capital in 2006 .
Carisbrooke Shipping chartered the ship to Universal Africa Lines, among others, who used it as UAL America in liner services between Europe and West Africa . In 2015 the ship was sold to the Dutch shipping company ForestWave Navigation together with three sister ships also employed by Carisbrooke Shipping . ForestWave Navigation continues to use the ship in liner services between Europe and West Africa. The ship management of the ship is responsible for the company Schulte & Bruns Nederlands, a joint venture between Forest Wave navigation in Heerenveen and Schulte & Bruns in Papenburg .
Pirate attack 2018
On April 21, 2018, the ship was attacked by pirates in the north of Bonny Bay off Port Harcourt . There were 14 crew members on board. Eleven of them were abducted and three sailors escaped the attack. One of them was hiding during the raid. He was later found on board. The ship was en route from Takoradi in Ghana to Onne in Nigeria. The kidnapped seafarers were released in May 2018. The circumstances of the release were not disclosed.
Technical data and equipment
The drive of the vessel through a Caterpillar - diesel engine (type: MaK 9M32C) with 4320 kW power . The engine acts on a controllable pitch propeller . The ship reaches a speed of 12 knots . The ship is equipped with a bow thruster with 400 kW power. A shaft generator with an output of 680 kW and three diesel generator sets, which are driven by Caterpillar diesel engines (type: 3406 C) with an output of 260 kW each, are available for power generation.
The superstructure with seven decks is located in the rear of the ship. There are a total of 13 individual cabins for the ship's crew and an owner's cabin on board. There is also an office, a galley , two mess rooms and several storage rooms on board. In front of the superstructure there are two cargo holds which are closed with 17 pontoon hatch covers. The hatch covers are moved with the help of a hatch trolley. Cargo hold 1 is 38.95 m long, 13.15 m wide and 11.05 m high. The room is box-shaped over a length of 29.52 m and tapers in the front area. The bulk capacity of the space is 5,409 m³. Cargo hold 2 is 65.41 m long, 13.15 m wide and 11.05 m high. It is box-shaped over a length of 61.20 m and tapers at the rear. The bulk material capacity of the room is 9,469 m³.
The holds can be divided with eight bulkheads that can be set up in 17 positions. The ship is equipped with an intermediate deck consisting of 17 panels . The individual panels are 5.45 m long, 13.15 m wide and 0.66 m high. The intermediate deck panels can be hung roughly in the middle of the room. With the intermediate deck, the space below the intermediate deck is 5.25 m high and the space above the intermediate deck is 5.14 m high.
The floor space in the two holds is 1,327 m². 1,218 m² are available on the tween decks and 1,408 m² on deck. The tank ceiling can be loaded with 18 t / m², the intermediate deck with 3.5 t / m² and the hatch cover with 1.75 t / m².
There is a breakwater in front of the holds to protect against overflowing water.
The ship can load 665 TEU , 363 TEU on deck and 302 TEU in space. There is space for up to five containers in the room and up to seven containers side by side on deck. Six 20-foot containers can be loaded one behind the other in hold 1 and on the hatch, and ten 20-foot containers in hold 2 and on the hatch. There is space for another row of 20-foot containers on deck between hold 2 and the deckhouse (the engine room is below deck here). The maximum weight of a stack of containers in the room is 100 t on the top of the tank for 20-foot containers and 140 t for 40-foot containers and on the intermediate deck 35 t for 20-foot containers and 54 t for 40-foot containers . The total weight on deck is 28 t for 20-foot containers and 48 t for 40-foot containers. There are 60 connections for refrigerated containers on deck.
The ship is equipped with two combinable cranes on the starboard side , each of which can lift 80 t.
The hull of the ship is reinforced with ice ( ice class 1A).
Web links
- Data sheet , Schulte & Bruns Nederland (PDF, 1.1 MB)
- GA plan ( Memento from April 24, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), Damen Shipyards (PDF, 799 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Another insolvency at HCI Capital - How investors secure their claims , Deutscher Finanzmarktschutz e. V., February 13, 2017. Accessed May 4, 2018
- ↑ Wolfhart Fabarius: Carisbrooke shipping company sells four carriers , THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung , October 16, 2015.
- ↑ HCI fleet funds have to sell ships , funds professional, July 22, 2015. Accessed May 4, 2018
- ↑ History , Forest Wave navigation. Retrieved May 4, 2018
- ^ Dutch freighter attacked, crew kidnapped, Nigeria , Maritime Bulletin, April 23, 2018. Retrieved May 4, 2018
- ↑ Bart Olmer: Twee matrozen brought overvallen schip FWN Rapide naar veilige wateren , Dagblad van het Noorden , May 3, 2018. Retrieved May 4, 2018
- ^ Twelve crew men kidnapped from ship off Nigeria , Safety4Sea, April 23, 2018. Accessed May 4, 2018
- ↑ Crew man found hiding onboard FWN Rapide after piracy attack , Safety4Sea, April 24, 2018. Retrieved May 4, 2018
- ↑ Pirates Release FWN Rapide Crew Members Kidnapped Off Nigeria , gCaptain, May 23, 2018. Retrieved June 28, 2018.