Falkor
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The Falkor is a research ship of the Schmidt Ocean Institute . From 1981 to 2008 it was used as a fishing protection boat for the Federal Republic of Germany under the name Seefalke .
history
The Seefalke was built in 1980/81 under the building number 760 at the Lübeck shipyard O & K Orenstein & Koppel AG . The keel was laid on September 15, the launch on December 22, 1980. The ship was completed on September 8, 1981.
The ship is powered by two eight - cylinder four - stroke diesel engines from the manufacturer Motorenwerke Mannheim AG (type: MWM TBD 510-8). The motors each with 2941 kilowatt power acting through gearbox to two variable pitch . The ship can thus reach a speed of up to 20 knots . Two engines with an output of 560 kW each are available as auxiliary diesels (type: MWM TBD 602 12). The ship is also equipped with a bow thruster and has ice class E2.
The fishing protection boat was used in the North and Baltic Seas and the North Atlantic. The main task was to support the fishery, especially in technical and medical matters. In the 1980s the focus shifted to monitoring fisheries. The ship, which has been part of the “ Coast Guard Coordination Association ” since 1994 , has been used exclusively for fisheries monitoring since 1998. The main task was now to monitor the fishery in relation to compliance with measures to conserve fish stocks and compliance with fishing bans, as well as the restriction of certain fishing methods and the processing of catches.
The ship was decommissioned on November 4, 2008 and replaced by a new building of the same name . The sale via VEBEG , which had sold the ship to a Canadian fishing company for 1.9 million euros, failed in October 2008 due to the collapse of a major Icelandic bank as a result of the financial crisis . The ship was then put up for sale again in early 2009 and sold to the US Marine Science & Technology Foundation in March of that year for over 2 million euros.
Whereabouts
The new owner of the ship had it converted into a multifunctional research ship by Peters Schiffbau GmbH in Wewelsfleth . The renovation, which took almost three years, was completed in March 2012. The baptism in the name Falkor took place on March 6th, the handover on April 12th. The ship is used by the Schmidt Ocean Institute .
The ship was equipped with several laboratories, including wet and dry laboratories, as well as a control room for cable-guided underwater vehicles. The helicopter landing deck was converted and a swiveling stern boom was installed at the stern of the ship. The ship also has various echo sounders and sonar systems . In particular, thanks to the installation of a sonar pod, the ship will have a draft of 5.8 m after the conversion.
The operating radius of the ship, which is equipped with dynamic positioning and stabilizers , is specified at a speed of 12 knots with 8000 nautical miles , the duration of use as 28 days.
On board there is space for a total of 18 crew members in 11 cabins (including the owner's cabin) and up to 22 scientists in 10 cabins.
During a transfer voyage from Newcastle to Nuuk , during a functional test of the echo sounder equipment , the Falkor team discovered the wreck of the polar expedition ship Terra Nova, which sank in 1943, off the south coast of Greenland .
Web links
- Pictures of the converted ship , project page of Peters Schiffbau
- Information about the Falkor , Schmidt Ocean Institute
- GA plan from Falkor , Schmidt Ocean Institute (PDF, 3.3 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Seefalke fishing protection boat . Retrieved June 11, 2012.
- ↑ a b Marathon Falkor conversion nears end , Maritime Journal, October 6, 2011. Accessed April 8 2016th
- ↑ The economic crisis prevented the sale of the “Seefalke” , Cuxhavener Nachrichten , February 12, 2009. Accessed April 8, 2016.
- ↑ VEBEG Annual Report 2008 , p. 11 (PDF, 610 kB). Retrieved June 11, 2012.
- ↑ VEBEG Annual Report 2009 , p. 8 (PDF, 700 kB). Retrieved June 11, 2012.
- ↑ "Falkor" and "Sea Hawk" in Wewelsfleth , THB - German Schiffahrts-Zeitung , August 24, 2011th
- ↑ research vessel Falkor ( Memento of 8 April 2016 Internet Archive ), GTF Freese.
- ↑ "Falkor" in the trial , THB - German Schiffahrts-Zeitung, March 19, 2012. Accessed April 8 2016th
- ↑ Falkor is named , Schmidt Ocean Institute, March 6, 2012. Retrieved April 8, 2016.
- ↑ Three-year renovation has been completed , THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung, April 14, 2012. Accessed April 8, 2016.
- ↑ a b Falkor on trials after conversion completed , Maritime Journal, April 24, 2012. Retrieved May 13, 2019.
- ↑ Conversion completed , Schiff & Hafen , April 23, 2012. Accessed June 11, 2012.
- ^ Schmidt Research Vessel Foundation Update , Schmidt Research Vessel Institute, October 2010 (PDF, 1.1 MB). Retrieved April 8, 2016.
- ↑ Researchers find wreckage of Robert Scott's ship "Terra Nova". In: Spiegel online. August 17, 2012, accessed August 14, 2020 .
- ^ SS Terra Nova discovered. Schmidt Ocean Institute, August 13, 2012, accessed on August 14, 2020 .