Mærsk M-Class (2008)

Mærsk M-Class

Ship data Ship type Container Ship Shipping company Maersk Line, Copenhagen Shipyard Odense Staalskibsvaerft, Lindø, Denmark Construction period 2007 to 2009 Units built 6th Cruising areas Worldwide trip

Ship dimensions and crew length 366.90 m ( Lüa ) width 42.80 m Side height 24.10 m Draft Max. 15.00 m measurement 98,268 GT ? NRZ

Machine system machine 1 × HSD-SULZER 12RTflex96C two-stroke diesel engine Machine performance 68,640 kW (93,324 hp) Top speed 25.5 kn (47 km / h) propeller 1 × fixed propeller

Transport capacities Load capacity 116,100 dwt Container 10,150 TEU Connections for refrigerated containers 900

Others Classifications American Bureau of Shipping

The Mærsk M-Class ships were among the largest container ships when they were commissioned .

history

The series was built from 2007 and delivered from March 2008 by the Danish Odense Staalskibsværft . She continued the development of the previous size record holders, the Regina-Mærsk type , the Sovereign-Mærsk type , the Mærsk C-class and the Mærsk A-class (2003) , with which it shares a large part of the design parameters. The client for the series was the Copenhagen-based shipping company Mærsk Line , where the ships are still in service today. The series was created in 2007/09 in an edition of six ships. The shipping company combines the ships of the A-class within the shipping company fleet with the comparable large predecessor types as the S-class, but takes the M-ships as a separate class.

Compared to the A-class ships, the M-class design has been extended by a further 15 meters and, in order to ensure a sufficient line of sight , has a deckhouse raised by one deck to eleven decks. The M-class ships are among the Post-Panamax container ships and have a capacity of 7,668 TEU (loaded containers weighing 14 tons each), or 10,150 TEU in real spaces. The ships can stow 17 containers transversely and a total of 13 layers on top of each other. The main engines used were the most powerful diesel engines on the market at the time.

The ships

Mærsk M-Class
Building name	Build number	IMO number	Callsign	Keel laying, launching, delivery	Renaming and whereabouts
Margrethe Mærsk	L211	9359002	OZBY2	October 20, 2007 February 5, 2008 March 28, 2008	2014 Gerner Mærsk
Fairy tale Mærsk	L212	9359014	OUIY2	December 20, 2007 March 28, 2008 May 18, 2008	2014 Gunde Mærsk
Maren Mærsk	L213	9359026	OUJI2	February 10, 2008 June 4, 2008 July 22, 2008	2014 Gunhilde Mærsk
Mette Mærsk	L214	9359038	OUJK2	April 9, 2008 August 26, 2008 October 14, 2008	2014 Gustav Mærsk
Marit Mærsk	L215	9359040	OUJN2	June 13, 2008 November 7, 2008 January 19, 2009	2014 Guthorm Mærsk
Mathilde Mærsk	L216	9359052	OUJS2	September 2, 2008 January 29, 2009 March 17, 2009	2014 Gerda Mærsk
Data: ABS Record

Web links

Commons : Mærsk M-Class  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

Remarks

1. ↑ In the movie All Is Lost , the ship (which was actually filmed leaving the port of Los Angeles) [1] can be seen in several shots as it passes the protagonist's life raft. [2]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MARGRETHE MAERSK . On containership-info, accessed February 26, 2018
2. ↑ Gerner Mærsk . At eagle.org, accessed February 26, 2018; Gunde Mærsk . At eagle.org, accessed February 26, 2018; Gunhilde Mærsk . At eagle.org, accessed February 26, 2018; Gustav Mærsk . At eagle.org, accessed February 26, 2018; Guthorm Mærsk . At eagle.org, accessed February 26, 2018; Gerda Mærsk . Retrieved February 26, 2018 from eagle.org