Comet (ship, 1969)

comet

Ship data flag  Germany Callsign DBBG Shipyard Jadewerft , Wilhelmshaven Build number 115

Ship dimensions and crew length 67.60 m ( Lüa ) width 11.50 m Draft Max. 4.0 m measurement 1,252 GRT / 260 NRT 1,319 GT / 395 NRT   crew 32

Machine system machine 2 x MTU - Diesel engines Machine performance 2,800 kW (3,807 hp) Top speed 15 kn (28 km / h) propeller 1 × controllable pitch propeller

Transport capacities Permitted number of passengers 6 scientists

Dates as Felix Flag / home port  Cayman Islands / George Town Callsign ZCPG8 measurement 1,622 GT / 487 NRZ Load capacity 341 t Classification Society Lloyd's Register

Others IMO no. 6908709

The Komet is a former survey ship of the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) in Hamburg .

history

The ship was built in 1969 at the Jadewerft in Wilhelmshaven . The keel was laid on May 16, 1968. It was baptized on January 24, 1969. Godmother was Erna-Maria Leber, the wife of the then Federal Minister of Transport, Georg Leber . The ship, which was completed in early August 1969, was put into service on August 26.

On board the ship, which was operated by a 32-man crew , there was space for a total of 46 people in 17 double and 12 single cabins .

The ship had an operational radius of 12,000  nautical miles at a speed of 10  knots .

The ship was named after the small celestial bodies, the comets .

Technical data and equipment

The ship was powered by two MTU - diesel engines each with 1,400  kW power driven. The two motors worked via a gearbox on a controllable pitch propeller with a fin rudder . The ship thus reached a speed of up to 15  knots .

The ship also had a bow thruster .

There were two cargo booms on the foredeck , and a working crane was on the boat deck.

Survey boats

For survey work, the ship was equipped with six survey boats, which could be launched using davits with sea state followers. The boats were 6.7 m long and were powered by a Volvo Penta Aquamatic diesel engine with an output of 96 kW. The boats reached a maximum speed of 18 knots. The boats were u. a. equipped with surveying plumb bobs.

The survey boats could work independently of the Komet , which served as an operational base.

Whereabouts of the ship

Towards the end of the 1990s, the ship was decommissioned and sold by the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency. Initially, the ship was laid up in Cuxhaven for a long time . Eventually it was bought by Eagle Shipping Ltd. bought in the British Virgin Islands and brought as One Eagle under the flag of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (callsign: J8WE8, home port: Kingstown ), but remained in Cuxhaven.

In 2000, the One Eagle was chartered for a diving expedition ("Rabe-Bemis Tauchexpedition") carried out in August of that year to the ferry Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994 .

The ship was finally resold by Eagle Shipping in 2004 for around US $ 2.5 million and converted into the mega yacht Amadeus by 2006 in Taiwan . At the end of 2015 the yacht was resold. The new name was Felix .

The yacht can accommodate twelve passengers. It is propelled by two Caterpillar diesel engines with a combined output of 2760 kW, which act on two propellers.

Web links

Commons : Komet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Technical data , buesummaritim.de. Retrieved October 22, 2012.
2. ↑ Surveying and research ship "Komet" , buesummaritim.de. Retrieved October 22, 2012.
3. ↑ The Rabe-Bemis Diving Expedition in August 2000 , The German Group of Experts (Engl.)
4. ↑ Charl van Rooy: New owner for 70 meter superyacht Amadeus , SuperYacht Times, December 17, 2015. Accessed July 2, 2018.
5. ↑ Maarten Janssen: The 70 meter converted superyacht Amadeus at anchor , SuperYacht Times, November 8, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2018.