Hanjin Pennsylvania
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The Hanjin Pennsylvania was a Panamax - container ship , which in November 2002 in the Indian Ocean caught fire.
General
The ship was built under the hull number 092 by Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction in South Korea and completed and delivered in March 2002. It was baptized in Hamburg in April 2002 . Godmother was Gisela Runde, the wife of the former First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Ortwin Runde . The construction, which had cost 44.7 million US dollars, was financed by a ship fund from Dr. Peters issuing house . The ship, which was chartered to Hanjin Shipping , was managed by F. Laeisz Schiffahrtsgesellschaft .
The ship was one of five structurally identical ships that were built in 2001 and 2002 by Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction for the F. Laeisz shipping company. It operated under the Liberian flag with its home port of Monrovia .
Technical data and equipment
The ship was powered by a nine-cylinder two - stroke diesel engine with an output of 41,040 kW . The engine, a MAN B&W 9K90MC-C that was built under license by Hyundai Heavy Industries, operated on a fixed pitch propeller . The ship reached a speed of around 24 knots . In the bow of the ship there was a transverse thruster control system with 1,850 kW output.
A total of five generators were available for the power supply . Two of the generators had an apparent power of 2,488 kVA and two had an apparent power of 2,125 kVA. The fifth generator acted as an emergency generator. It had an apparent power of 213 kVA.
The ship had seven cargo holds and additional parking spaces on deck behind the superstructures . The superstructures were in the rear third of the ship. In front of the superstructures there were holds 1 to 6 with a total of 13 container bays, behind the superstructures there was hold 7 with two container bays and another two container bays on deck.
The container capacity of the ship was given as 4,389 TEU . With homogeneous loading with 14 ton containers, the capacity was 3,051 TEU. 400 connections were available for refrigerated containers.
After the repair of the ship, it was described with a container capacity of 4,369 TEU. There was space for 1,997 TEU in the space and 2,372 on deck. There were 977 spaces below deck and 1,087 on deck for 40-foot containers.
Fire in November 2002
On November 11, 2002 there was an explosion in the morning in the area of the containers stowed on hatch 4, followed by a fire. The ship was chartered for Hanjin Shipping and was at that time with 21 crew members on board in the Indian Ocean south of Dondra Head in Sri Lanka en route from the Far East to Europe. In the accident, a crew member was killed who died from serious burn injuries. Another crew member was missing. The search for him was later stopped. Several containers went overboard as a result of the explosion.
The fire could not be fought successfully with on-board resources. The crew left the ship on November 12, as the fire had spread in the vicinity of containers in which dangerous goods were loaded. The Dutch rescue company Wijsmuller Salvage was commissioned to fight the fire and rescue the ship.
In the course of the fire, the fire also spread to containers on hatch 6 directly in front of the superstructure. On November 15, there was an explosion below deck, with more containers going overboard. The pontoon lids covering the hatch were badly damaged and some of them also went overboard. The deck superstructures with the bridge and the engine room were also badly damaged. Another explosion occurred on November 18th.
On November 25, it was reported that the fire on board was under control and the ship could be towed. In addition to the damage in the area of hatches 4 and 6, containers on hatches 3 and 5 were also damaged by the effects of fire and by the extinguishing work. Overall, around half of the cargo on board was lost.
In mid-December, the ship was towed to Singapore , where it arrived on January 4, 2003. The undamaged or only slightly damaged containers were unloaded there. The ship was declared a total loss on February 8 and was finally sold to Chinese abandoners through a company in Singapore.
The causes of the explosions on board the ship have not been officially confirmed. The trigger for the first explosion on hatch 4 was u. a. Calcium hypochlorite accepted in incorrectly or undeclared containers. For the explosion in hold 6 were u. a. Fireworks believed to be the cause. According to the cargo manifest, there were containers with fireworks on board, but these were stowed on hatches 1, 2 and 3, so that an explosive atmosphere could have been responsible for the explosion in hold 6. Magnesium could have been responsible for the luminous phenomena that can be seen in photos of the burning ship, which are reminiscent of fireworks.
Whereabouts of the ship
In mid-June 2003 the ship was towed to Shanghai . However, it was not demolished there, instead, after it had been sold on to the British company Zodiac Maritime Agencies, it was extensively repaired.
The ship was reclassified by the classification society Lloyd's Register and came under the Liberian flag again (callsign: A8DV2). The ship initially sailed as Norasia Bellatrix . in charter from CSAV -Norasia and later as MSC Bellatrix in charter from MSC .
In 2016 the ship was sold as Bella for demolition in Bangladesh.
Web links
- Thar She Blows , Cargolaw.com, Countryman & McDaniel
- M / V Hanjin Pennsylvania: Explosions at Sea , report, Weeth & Associates for National Fireworks Association (NFA) (PDF file, 122 kB)
- M / V Hanjin Pennsylvania: Explosions at Sea , Appendix to the report, Weeth & Associates for National Fireworks Association (NFA) (PDF file, 639 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d MS Pennsylvania , DS Fund No. 88, Dr. Peters issuing house.
- ^ A b Norasia Bellatrix , Containership Info. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
- ↑ a b c d e f g Hanjin Pennsylvania , Fortunes de mer, Droit et assurances maritimes. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
- ↑ a b c Container freighter being scrapped after explosions on board , Die Welt , April 29, 2003. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
- ↑ Fleet list of the shipping company F. Laeisz (PDF file, 28.5 kB). Retrieved February 20, 2018.
- ↑ Description of the ship , Zodiac Maritime Agencies Ltd. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
- ↑ a b Charles P. Weeth: M / V Hanjin Pennsylvania Explosions at Sea , Report, Weeth & Associates for National Fireworks Association (NFA) (PDF file, 122 kB). Retrieved February 20, 2018.
- ↑ a b Hanjin Pennsylvania on demolition , THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung , April 28, 2003.
- ^ The Pennsylvania wreck is being repaired , THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung, July 18, 2003.
- ↑ Hanjin Pennsylvania , Cedre. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
- ↑ CSAV charters more boxships as supply dwindles , MundoMaritimo, January 26, 2004. Accessed February 20, 2018.
- ^ MSC Bellatrix , Maritime-Connector.com. Retrieved February 20, 2018.
- ↑ Shipbreaking # 45 - Bulletin of information and analysis on ship demolition , Robin des Bois, November 2, 2016 (PDF file, 12.1 MB). Retrieved February 20, 2018.