Commodore Ruser

Commodore Ruser

Pilot station ship Kommodore Ruser

Ship data flag  Germany Ship type Pilot station ship class Commodore Rolin class Callsign DBJV home port Cuxhaven Owner Federal Ministry of Traffic, Construction and City Development Shipyard Meyer shipyard , Papenburg Build number 517 Launch 15th August 1963

Ship dimensions and crew length 55.18 m ( Lüa ) width 9.52 m Draft Max. 4 m measurement 759 GT / 253 NRZ

Machine system machine diesel-electric 2 × electric motors Machine performance 912 kW (1,240 hp) Top speed 13 kn (24 km / h) propeller 2

Transport capacities Load capacity 137 dw

Others Classifications Germanic Lloyd IMO no. 5427784

Data as OMS Heidelberg flag  Tanzania Callsign 5IM442 Owner Offshore Marine Services, Cape Town, South Africa / Heidelberg Pty, Republic of Botswana

Data as defiant flag  Panama home port Panama Callsign HP9994 Owner Nemsa Services, British Virgin Islands

The Kommodore Ruser is a former German pilot station ship that was stationed in the Elbe estuary .

She is one of six ships of the same type of the Commodore Rolin class , which were or are partly still stationed in the mouths of the Elbe, Weser / Jade and Ems waters . The Kommodore Ruser was built under construction number 519 at the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg . The keel was laid on April 29, the launch on August 15, 1963. The completion took place in April 1964.

The propulsion of the ship was diesel-electric . The two drive motors, each with an output of 456  kW, acted on two fixed propellers . The ship reached a speed of 13  knots .

The ship was owned by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS) and operated by Lotsbetriebsverein e. V., branch office Cuxhaven , at the station Elbe.

The Kommodore Ruser last served as a replacement ship for the SWATH pilot station ship Elbe , which had replaced the captain Hilgendorf, who was decommissioned in July 2001 , and was always used when the Elbe, for its part, moved the station in the Elbe estuary to change personnel and to bunker in Cuxhaven had to leave temporarily. At the beginning of 2010 the ship was finally decommissioned.

Whereabouts of the ship

The Kommodore Ruser was sold in 2011 and brought back into service as OMS Heidelberg under the flag of Tanzania . The ship was bought by Offshore Marine Services in Cape Town , South Africa and Heidelberg PTY in the Republic of Botswana .

The ship was made ready to sail again in Emden. It reached Cape Town on May 27, 2011, where the ship was converted into a safety and service ship for offshore use. At the beginning of 2014 the ship was transferred to the company Nemsa Services in the British Virgin Islands and renamed Defiant .

Web links

Commons : Kommodore Ruser  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bye, Commodore Ruser, Die Welt , January 28, 2010, accessed June 7, 2011