Eleanor (ship)
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The Eleanor is a liquid gas tanker that was hijacked by pirates in January 2009 under the name Longchamp in the Gulf of Aden.
history
Construction and use before the raid
The tanker was built in 1990 for the Panamanian shipping company Viking Asia Incorporated & Rustle at the Shinhama Dockyard Company in Anan, Japan. The keel was laid on June 24th, the launch on July 27th, 1990. The ship was delivered on December 17, 1990. In 2000, the ship was renamed Longchamp . In 2006 the holding company LPG Tankerflotte acquired the ship and the Hamburg-based company Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement took over the management .
kidnapping
On January 29, 2009, at 3:40 a.m. UTC , the tanker with a cargo of 2,730 t vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) and a 13-man crew was off the south coast of Yemen , about 95 km from Al-Mukalla , the capital of the region Hadramaut removed, captured by seven Somali pirates . The captain was Indonesian , twelve crew members came from the Philippines . The ship was on its way from Norway to Vietnam and, according to MPC, had joined a fleet of ships that was accompanied by Indian naval units.
After a violent exchange of fire during the attack, the pirates boarded the ship's wall, which was only about 1.50 meters high. The captain of the Longchamp turned down an offer from the Indian frigate Beas to free the liquid gas tanker by force because of the dangerous cargo on his ship.
A spokesman for the EU mission Atalanta (EU NAVFOR Somalia) in the headquarters of the operation in the UK Northwood contradicted the view of MPC, the Longchamp was at the coordination office of the British navy for allied forces in the region UK Royal Navy's Maritime Trade Organization (UKMTO) in Dubai had been registered before the trip and waited around 16 hours to then join a protected convoy. The Longchamp had been traveling as a "single driver" on the edge of the transit corridor and had not waited for the convoy. The captain and ship manager had erroneously assumed that e-mails with position reports to the UKMTO in Dubai were sufficient as registration. The freighter was not included in the list of ships for the Gulf of Aden . This would have required an entry in the database of the EU Naval Maritime Force Somalia using the contact form. The abducted Longchamp had been in Somali coastal waters on the east coast of the country since the evening of January 29, 2009. The Hamburg public prosecutor's office was investigating an attack on maritime traffic and robbery. The authority confirmed the existence of a ransom demand.
Since January 31, 2009 there have been several discussions between the kidnappers and the Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement shipping company. According to the circumstances, the crew is doing well, said shipping company spokesman Cor Radings.
The operational command of the German Navy in Potsdam emphasized that the Longchamp sailing under the flag of the Bahamas was not a German ship, so the German Navy was not responsible for the hijacked tanker.
On March 28, 2009, the company Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement announced that the hijackers had released the gas tanker and its 13 crew members. The ship continued its journey to the original destination Vietnam. According to media reports, a ransom should have been paid.
Further use
In 2010, just under a year after the release, the ship was transferred to the Singapore-registered company Longchamp Shipping without being renamed, and in 2014 the Indonesian shipping company Bahari Nusantara from Makassar took over the ship and renamed it Eleanor .
Technical specifications
The tanker is driven by a Mitsubishi two-stroke diesel engine of the type 6UEC37LA with an output of 2425 kW , which acts on a fixed propeller . When loaded, the ship has a freeboard of around 1.6 meters.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Lloyd's Register, IHS Fair Play
- ↑ IMB Live Piracy Report: Attack ID: 2009/030. ( Memento of the original from July 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , ICC IMB Piracy Reporting Center, Kuala Lumpur, (accessed January 31, 2009).
- ↑ Thomas Wiegold : "Longchamp" Pirates hijack floating bomb. , Focus , January 29, 2009 (accessed January 29, 2009)
- ↑ AP / Katharine Houreld: Somali Pirates Hijack German Gas Tanker. ( Memento of February 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) , TIME , January 29, 2009 (accessed January 30, 2009)
- ↑ Pirates hijack German-owned ship in Gulf of Aden , CNN , January 29, 2009 (accessed January 29, 2009).
- ↑ Sarah Kramer: Pirates capture German tankers , Der Tagesspiegel , January 30, 2009 (accessed January 31, 2009)
- ↑ a b c han / ffr / dpa / ddp EU Mission raises serious allegations against tanker crew , Der Spiegel , January 31, 2009 (accessed on January 31, 2009)
- ↑ Hijacked tanker: Hamburg public prosecutor determined , Hamburger Abendblatt , January 31, 2009 (accessed on February 5, 2009)
- ↑ a b "Angehender Dialog" with the kidnappers , Die Welt , January 30, 2009 (accessed on February 5, 2009)
- ↑ German Navy: We are not responsible for the “Longchamp” , Hamburger Abendblatt , January 30, 2009 (accessed January 30, 2009).
- ^ Hijacked German gas tanker "Longchamp" released again , Spiegel Online , March 28, 2009 (accessed on March 29, 2009).
