Korrigan (ship)
_(Kiel_54.416).jpg) The Korrigan at the HDW equipment quay (1973)
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The Korrigan container ship was built in 1972 for the Messageries Maritimes (MM) shipping company and was one of the largest and fastest cargo ships in the world when it was built. It was the first French third generation container ship . The name Korrigan is derived from the Breton name for a kind of forest spirit.
history
Construction and planned TRIO service
The Korrigan was ordered in 1971 by the shipping company Messageries Maritimes from Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in Kiel . The Korrigan was initially planned as one of 17 new third-generation full container ships for use in the TRIO Container Service. The TRIO consortium consisted of Hapag-Lloyd , Overseas Containers Limited (OCL - again consisting of Ocean Transport & Trading Ltd, the Blue Funnel Line , P & O , the British & Commonwealth Shipping Company and Furness, Withy & Co. ), Ben Line Containers ( Ben Line Steamers and Ellerman Lines ), Nippon Yusen Kaisha and Mitsui OSK Lines . With the TRIO service, these shipping companies set up a container liner service from Europe to Kobe, Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong via the Suez Canal or Cape Town and the Panama Canal .
When the Korrigan was handed over in April 1973, Messageries Maritimes withdrew its participation in the TRIO service. The ship was first laid up in Brest , before it was incorporated on July 17, 1973 in the eastbound service to Japan around the world of the competing ScanDutch service.
ScanDutch service
In 1971 the three Scandinavian shipping companies Det Østasiatiske Kompagni (EAC), Copenhagen, Svenska Ostasiatiska Kompaniet, Gothenburg and Wilh founded. Wilhelmsen founded the Scanservice Group in Oslo to offer a Europe-Far East container service with 15-day departures from the base port of Gothenburg. They ordered the four equally large and very fast container ships Selandia and Jutlandia (EAC), Nihon (SEA), and Toyama (Wilhelmsen). Shortly thereafter, the Dutch shipping company Nedlloyd joined the group with the two ships Nedlloyd Delft and Nedlloyd Dejima , whereupon the group was renamed ScanDutch . Together, the shipping companies of the Copenhagen-based ScanDutch Service Pool invested 250 million US dollars for this construction program of over 700,000 tdw, to which a further 35 million dollars came for the purchase of containers. The French shipping company Messageries Maritimes joined the pool with its Korrigan in 1973, before the Malaysian shipping company Malaysia International Shipping Corporation (MISC) finally joined in 1977 .
After the 1973 oil crisis , the exceptionally powerful turbine drive of the 27-knot ship turned out to be uneconomical, as it consumed around 450 tons of heavy fuel oil per day. After Messageries Maritimes merged with Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT / French Line) to form Compagnie Générale Maritime (CGM) on January 1, 1977 , the characteristic curved white stripes on the fore and aft, as well as the long row of " MM “symbols painted over on the sides of the ship. From January 7, 1981, the Korrigan was equipped with two Sulzer diesel engines at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Yokohama, with which it reached a speed of 22 knots and a daily consumption of 177 tons.
Remaining career
After the end of the cooperation with the ScanDutch consortium in 1992, the name was changed to CGM Korrigan and the pool was used by CGM / Nedlloyd / MISC. There the ship was renamed Nedlloyd Korrigan in 1995 and sold on March 24, 1997 to the Greek shipping company Costamare , which operated the ship for another year under the Greek flag and sold it to aborters in Chittagong after the charter expired in March 1998.
technology
The sister ships of the Korrigan were the Benavon that Benalder and the City of Edinburgh British Ben Line. The ship design for this new series was based on the Liverpool Bay class designed by Marshall Meek, the lead shipbuilding engineer and director of the Blue Funnel / Ocean Fleets design department belonging to the OCL, and was based on the shipbuilding experience gained through the Encounter Bay class . The two-screw turbine ships with Panama Canal dimensions without stern with bulbous bow and transom stern belong to the so-called open ships , the cargo hold openings of which do not leave much space on deck for the upper structural bond. The superstructures and the engine room are located between the sixth and seventh hold. The eight rooms in cells accommodate 1086 20-foot containers and 418 40-foot containers. Additional layers of 352 TEU each could be used on deck. The ship type was powered by two English Electric geared turbines , each supplied by a Foster Wheeler boiler with a steam output of 145 tons per hour. Power is supplied by two 1250 kW diesel generators and two 2500 kW turbo generators. There is also a 165 kW emergency power generator on board. Two bow thrusters, each with 1000 HP output, with controllable pitch propellers and a fin stabilization system contribute to the improvement of maneuverability and the better sea behavior of the ship type.
The Commissariat à l'énergie atomique , Center de Saclay presented in 1971 at a colloquium in Hamburg a memorandum on the establishment of a nuclear-powered boiler of 250 MW on board the Korrigan before that, however, never implemented.
literature
- Yearbook of shipping 1974 , transpress VEB Verlag für Verkehrwesen, Berlin, page 100
- Hans Jürgen Witthöft: Container . The mega carriers are coming. Koehler, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-7822-0882-X .
Web links
- Page about the Korrigan (French)