Galatea (ship)

Galatea

Ship data flag United Kingdom Ship type Multipurpose ship Callsign MRDQ7 home port London Owner Williams & Glyn's Leasing Company Shipping company Trinity House Shipyard Remontowa, Danzig Launch July 26, 2006 Commissioning October 17, 2007

Ship dimensions and crew length 84.2 m ( Lüa ) width 16.50 m Draft Max. 4.32 m measurement 3569 GT ; 1101 NRZ   crew 18 + 13

Machine system machine Diesel-electric drive Machine performance 3,000 kW (4,079 hp) Top speed 13.5 kn (25 km / h) propeller 2 × propeller pods

Furnishing Ship crane 1 × Liebherr with max. 30 t WLL Maneuvering aids Cross-thrust control system Dynamic positioning Others 550 m² working deck Helipad Bollard pull 33 tbp Moonpool

Others Classifications Lloyd's Register of Shipping Registration numbers IMO 9338591

The Galatea is a multi-purpose vessel of Trinity House . The prefix of the ship's name is THV and stands for Trinity House Vessel .

General

The Galatea is the second ship with this name for Trinity House. The first Galatea was a paddle steamer built in 1868 , which was in service as a buoy laying , lighthouse tender and supervisory ship until 1895 . During this period the ship was involved in the commissioning of the Eddystone lighthouse and, in 1894, in the handover of the Helgoland lighthouse to the German Empire .

Today's Galatea was commissioned on March 11, 2004, together with the sister ship Pharos , from Remontowa in Gdansk . The hull of the new building was built on the belonging to Remontowa Northern Shipyard and ran on 26 July 2006 from the stack . The ship was christened on October 17, 2007 by the British Queen Elizabeth II . During the ceremony, the ship was alongside HMS Belfast . The home port of the Galatea is London , is stationed them but in Harwich , the headquarters of Trinity House. It replaced the Mermaid ( IMO 8511275) built in 1987 .

Furnishing

The Galatea has a diesel-electric drive consisting of five Wärtsilä - diesel generators (3 x 1368 kW, 2 × 684 kW), two Rolls-Royce - azimuth thruster each to 1500 kW and two cross beam control systems , each with 750 kW.

A large working deck with a ship's crane , a helicopter landing pad on the foredeck , parking spaces for standard containers , additional accommodation for thirteen people and the dynamic positioning make the ship universally applicable, for example as a buoy laying, lighthouse tender, survey ship or for wreck search .

Ship name

The ship is named after Galateia , a nymph of Greek mythology. Other ships with this name were the warships HMS Galatea , the Spanish sailing training ship Galatea and the Danish corvette Galathea .

Web links

Commons : THV Galatea  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• THV Galatea. (PDF) Trinity House , accessed April 30, 2015 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Second multi-function buoy tender for Trinity House launched at Northern Shipyard SA. (No longer available online.) Remontowa, July 26, 2006, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on April 30, 2015 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Her Majesty The Queen names THV Galatea. (No longer available online.) Remontowa, October 19, 2007, formerly in the original ; accessed on April 30, 2015 (English).  ( 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.