Mairangi Bay (ship)
Mairangi Bay in Rotterdam
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The Mairangi Bay was a reefer container ship and was delivered to Overseas Containers Limited (OCL) by Bremer Vulkan in 1978 . At the time, it was one of the ships with the largest refrigerated container capacity.
history
The Mairangi Bay was built for the containerization of Europe-Australia service from Overseas Container Lines (OCL) and triggered freighter with large cooling capacity from. OCL later became P & O Containers Ltd, which in turn was merged with Nedlloyd Lines to form P&O Nedlloyd. The ship was scrapped on June 7, 2002 in Jiangyin (China).
description
The Mairangi Bay was on the Bremer Vulkan shipyard and machine factory in Bremen and had a length of 248.6 m and m a width of 32.3. It was measured with 43,995 gross registered tons (GRT) and had a load capacity of 38,760 dwt. It was driven by two low-speed eight-cylinder two-stroke crosshead diesel engines with a total output of 39190 kW, which were equipped with a synchronization device to reduce vibration. With this propulsion power, the ship reached a top speed of 23 knots . The ship was equipped with a bow thruster .
The two MAN main engines, type KS8Z90 / 160A, had a bore of 900 mm and a stroke of 1600 mm. They were each directly coupled to one of the two propeller shafts and the rated speed was 122 / min. To generate electricity, five MaK four-stroke auxiliary diesel engines, each with a nominal output of 1500 kW, were used to drive the generator.
The reefer container ship had twelve holds that were equipped with cell guides. There were eight holds in front and four behind the deckhouse. The container capacity was 2,344 twenty-foot units ( TEU ). 1223 refrigerated containers (R-TEU) could be stowed in the holds below deck. They were porthole refrigerated containers that were supplied with cold air by cooling rods fixed to the ship . These were flowed through by a brine system to cool the air. The ship's brine circulation system was cooled by a large refrigeration system with screw compressors in the engine room. Another 1,071 TEU found space on deck.
Mairangi Bay in Hamburg
Mairangi Bay in the B&V floating dock
