MSC Carla
 in Felixstowe, April 1997
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The container ship MSC Carla was built in 1972 as Nihon for Svenska Ostasiatiska Kompaniet (SEA) and was one of the fastest cargo ships in the world. On November 24, 1997, it broke in two parts in the North Atlantic.
history
ScanDutch service
In 1971 the three Scandinavian shipping companies Det Østasiatiske Kompagni (East Asiatic Company), 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). Before the two oil price crises of the 1970s, fuel costs were very low.
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 in this construction program of over 700,000 tdw, to which a further 35 million dollars came for the purchase of containers. In 1973 the French shipping company Messageries Maritimes joined with its Korrigan and in 1977 the Malaysian shipping company Malaysia International Shipping Corporation (MISC).
Construction and time of use
The Nihon was ordered in 1971 by the Gothenburg shipping company Svenska Ostasiatiska Kompaniet (Swedish East Asiatic Company, SEA) from the Øresundsvarvet shipyard in Landskrona . After delivery began in June 1972, the Nihon opened the ScanDutch Far East service, which it did not leave even under several later owners. In 1978 the ship was subordinated to the parent company Broström Rederi AB . In 1984 the Nihon was sold without renaming to the Rederi AB Transocean , which shortly after had it extended by 14.20 m at the Hyundai -Mipo shipyard in Ulsan and transferred to Transatlantic Shipping Ltd. in the same year . passed on. In 1991 Det Östasiatiske Kompagni AS (EAC) from Copenhagen acquired Nihon .
In 1993, when the shipping company Brail Transport ( AP Møller-Mærsk ) bought the ship, it got its second name, Ladby Maersk . Two years later, Rationis Enterprises Inc. (Panama) acquired the ship as a Ladby for the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and renamed it MSC Carla in 1996 .
Average in November 1997
On November 24, 1997, the MSC Carla was on a voyage from Le Havre to Boston about 100 nautical miles from the Azores in the North Atlantic when it split in two in a severe storm at the position 39 ° 19 ′ N , 25 ° 1 ′ W broke. The 34-strong crew could be rescued with a helicopter. The stern was towed by the salvage tug Fotiy Krylov , which reached Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on December 20 . The forecastle with its cargo of around 1,000 containers sank on November 30th. The cargo of 587 containers remaining on the stern was unloaded and the ship was towed to Gijón for scrapping , where it was demolished in 1998.
A US court found that the incorrect extension of the ship was the cause of the structural failure of the ship. The court ruling was later overturned for formal reasons.
technology
The most outstanding detail of the Nihon was its propulsion system, which consisted of three Götaverken diesel engines arranged on starboard, midship and port. Both side motors had 23,400 hp and each directly drove a fixed propeller with a diameter of 5.85 m. The middle engine had an output of 28,200 hp, which it delivered to a controllable pitch propeller with a diameter of 6.25 m. The 8-hatch ship was initially able to transport 2,002 TEU and had 110 connections for refrigerated containers. The extension in 1984 increased the container capacity to 2,868 TEU.
literature
- Yearbook of shipping 1974 , transpress VEB Verlag für Verkehrwesen, Berlin, page 100
- Witthöft, Hans Jürgen: Container . The mega carriers are coming. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-7822-0882-X .
Web links
- Pictures and CV on mareud.com (English) ( Memento of 6 October 2014 Internet Archive )
- Aktiebolaget Svenska Ostasiatiska Kompaniet on theshipslist.com (English)
- MSC Carla on wrecksite.eu (English)