Mafuta (ship)

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Mafuta
Mafuta after the conversion to test drive at the end of 2006
Mafuta after the conversion to test drive at the end of 2006
Ship data
flag NamibiaNamibia Namibia
other ship names
  • Peace in Africa
  • Dock Express 20
Ship type Mining ship
Callsign V5DX
Owner Debmarine Namibia
Shipyard Verolme Shipyard Heusden
Ship dimensions and crew
length
169.50 m ( Lüa )
width 24.20 m
Draft Max. 8.90 m
From 2007
length
169.53 m ( Lüa )
width 24.21 m
Draft Max. 8.79 m
measurement 15,854 GT
Machine system
machine 2 × Stork-Werkspoor diesel engines
Machine
performanceTemplate: Infobox ship / maintenance / service format 		6,256 kW (8,506 hp)
Top
speed 		16 kn (30 km / h)
Transport capacities
Load capacity 7935 dw
Others
Classifications Lloyd's Register
Registration
numbers 		IMO no. 8125064

The Mafuta is a special ship for the offshore search for diamonds and belongs to Debmarine Namibia , a subsidiary of Namdeb Holding.

history

The diamond search ship Peace in Africa in December 2006 in Africa

The Mafuta was built in 1983 as Dock Express 20 for Dock Express Shipping (later Dockwise ) and converted into a cable layer in 1993 . De Beers took over the ship in 2005, had it converted for diamond hunting at the British shipyard A&P Tyne and renamed it Peace in Africa . It was the first ship of its kind for de Beers. The ship has been flying the flag of Namibia since 2012 .

From 2007 onwards, extensive tests were carried out off South Africa to test the new technology for diamond searching. Then the Peace in Africa worked off the coast of Namibia, in 2011 it changed according to the mining license, about the coast of Kleinzee (South Africa).

In 2013 the ship was renamed Mafuta .

Ship and plant description

The ship, which was built in 1982 in the Netherlands by the Verolme shipyard Heusden, is 169.5 m long, 24.2 m wide and has a draft of 8.9 m. Driven by two Stork-Werkspoor four-stroke diesel engines of the type 6TM410, each with a rated output of 3128 kW , the ship reaches a speed of 16  knots . After the conversion into a special ship for the diamond hunt in 2006 and 2007, a measurement of 15854 GT and a carrying capacity of 7935 dwt resulted .

The on-board dredging equipment on board the ship includes a 240-ton, remote-controlled, underwater crawler excavator with a powerful centrifugal pump that has a capacity of around 10,000 cubic meters of water and gravel per hour. The dredging pump is connected to the on-board diamond processing plant via a long rubber hose with an internal diameter of 655 mm. The ship and the crawler can work in water depths of up to 150 meters.

See also

Web links

Commons : IMO 8125064  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Debmarine Namibia is the World's Largest Marine Diamond Mining Company. Debmarine Namibia, accessed November 16, 2017 .
  2. ^ Marc Van de Velde: Marine diamond mining vessel "Peace in Africa". The Art of Dredging, accessed November 15, 2017 .