Marcel Bayard (ship)

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The Marcel Bayard ( IMO number 5220887) was a French cable layer . The ship was named after Marcel Bayard (1895–1956), the former chief engineer of the Telegraphy Directorate in the Ministry of Post, Telegraphy and Telephone (PTT).

Construction and technical data

The ship was launched on 29 June 1961 at the shipyard of Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand in Le Havre from the pile and was delivered to the client, the PTT Ministry in September 1,961th It was 117.98 m ( Lüa ) or 105.00 m (LzdL) long and 15.49 m (on frames) or 15.62 m (maximum) wide, had a draft of 6.56 m and a side height to the upper deck of 9.20 m. It was measured with 4892 GRT and 1736 NRT. The load capacity was 4448 t . The diesel-electric propulsion system consisted of four single-acting 12-cylinder four-stroke marine diesel engines by Augustin Normand- MAN , each with 810 kW power, four 500 Volt - DC generators each with 715 kW output, four DC electric motors, each with 655 kW power and two propellers , on each 1780 hp acted and rotated with up to 170 rpm . The maximum speed was 14.5 knots . The special equipment of the ship included an active rudder from the Pleuger system with an output of 221 kW. With its bunker capacity of 990 m³, the ship could spend up to 55 days at sea without interruption. The ship had five cargo hatches and three cargo booms (1 × 5 t and 2 × 2 t). Up to 3300 t of cable could be stored in the four cable tanks with a total capacity of 2280 m³. At the bow there were two cable winches for picking up and repairing submarine cables, and one for laying cables on the stern. The crew numbered 106 people (13 of them telecommunications technicians).

Calls

The ship was primarily involved in the maintenance and repair of damage to submarine cables in the Atlantic and Mediterranean . In addition, it was used very often in the Mediterranean for laying new cables until 1974:

Cable laying work

route Laying time Length (km) Repeater
Perpignan (France) - Oran ( Algeria ) December 1961 1000 31
Cannes (France) - Île-Rousse ( Corsica ) July 1966 201 5
Perpignan / Canet-Plage (France) - Tétouan ( Morocco ) August 1967 1405 39
Marseille (France) - Tel Aviv ( Israel ) August 1968 3398 105
Marseille - Bizerte ( Tunisia ) February 1969 863 24
Saint-Raphaël (France) - Saint-Tropez (France) 1970
Marseille - Beirut ( Lebanon ) July 1970 3415 29
Beirut - Alexandria (Egypt) July 1972 694 20th
Marseille - Algiers (Algeria) August 1972 817 53
Penmarch (France) - Casablanca (Morocco) August 1973 1917 92
Marseille - Heraklion ( Greece ) "Ariane" January 1974 2474 122
Heraklion - Larnaka ( Cyprus ) "Aphrodite" December 1974 963 45
Larnaka - Beirut "Adonis" December 1974 219 10
Palma ( Mallorca ) - Algiers September 1975 340 17th
La Seyne-sur-Mer (France) - Bastia ( Corsica ) June 1977 335 42

In June 1965 she laid the French coastal connections of the transatlantic cable TAT-4 ( Transatlantic Telephone Cable No. 4), which ran from Tuckerton in the US state of New Jersey to Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French west coast.

Other works (selection)

In June 1965 she laid the French coastal connections of the transatlantic cable TAT-4 ( Transatlantic Telephone Cable No. 4), which ran from Tuckerton in the US state of New Jersey to Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French west coast.

Also in 1965 she laid the HVDC connection Sardinia - Corsica - Italy ( SACOI ), with which the electricity grids of Sardinia and Corsica were connected to that of Italy and thus of continental Europe.

In the years 1965 to 1970 (November 1965, March 1966, August – October 1967, March – May 1969, September – December 1970) and again in 1976 she was involved in the laying of HVDC connections in Newfoundland and Labrador .

In September 1968, the ship was used in the search for the wreckage of the Sud Aviation Caravelle III of Air France flight 1611 , which crashed into the Mediterranean on September 11, 1968 with 95 people on board near Nice .

In the summer of 1969, Marcel Bayard laid HVDC cables from mainland Canada near Vancouver in British Columbia and Vancouver Island .

In June, August and September 1971, under the charter of the British Post Office Corporation , the ship undertook three extensive bathymetric and magnetic research voyages between Falmouth, Cornwall and Halifax, Nova Scotia, to explore a convenient route for the 1973 transatlantic relocation. CANTAT II submarine cable between Widemouth Bay in Cornwall and Beaver Harbor in Nova Scotia .

In 1971 Marcel Bayard carried out special tasks in setting up the "Azores Fixed Acoustic Range" (AFAR) for NATO in the Azores .

In 1972 she carried out preparatory work for laying the TELPAL telephone cable from Tel Aviv to Palo Laziale (Italy), in 1975 explorations on the Dakar ( Senegal ) - Lagos ( Nigeria ) route, and in 1980 explorations in the South Atlantic between Dakar and Recife ( Brazil ).

From 1975, when the new Vercors cable layman came into service, the ship specialized in cable repairs in the North Atlantic on behalf of the ACMA (Atlantic Cable Maintenance & Repair Agreement).

The End

On January 6, 1981 in La Seyne-sur-Mer, a fire caused by welding work in the engine room broke out, which quickly spread over the entire ship loaded with cables and had to be fought for two days. The Marcel Bayard was badly damaged and finally sank at her berth on January 8th . It was due to sail to Bermuda on January 7th to carry out maintenance work on Atlantic submarine cables for the next six months for the ACMA ("Atlantic Cable Maintenance Agreement"). The wreck was initially sold to the "Industries Maritimes Serra Freres", lifted on July 1, 1981 and then sold to "Aguilar y Peris" in Valencia for demolition . On October 20, 1981, it left Toulon in tow for Valencia.

As a replacement for Marcel Bayard , Léon Thévenin was commissioned by the “Société Nouvelle des Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre et de la Rochelle-La Pallice Réunis” on February 6, 1981 .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://www.ship-db.de/Meyer/M/Marcel%20Bayard_5220887_SON_0000_1961.pdf
  2. ^ Economic Section of the French Embassy in the USA: French Technical Bulletin , No. 1, 1962, p. 22
  3. ↑ http://atlantic-cable.com/stamps/Cableships/indexbc.htm
  4. ↑ René Salvador & Guy Pacaud: Le N / C Marcel Bayard (4 octobre 1961 - 6 janvier 1981) , in: Association des Amis des Câbles Sous-Marins: Bulletin N ° 49, June 2014, p. 13
  5. ↑ René Salvador & Guy Pacaud: Le N / C Marcel Bayard (4 octobre 1961 - 6 janvier 1981) , in: Association des Amis des Câbles Sous-Marins: Bulletin N ° 49, June 2014, p. 12
  6. ↑ https://www.flickr.com/photos/37908073@N04/3799277757
  7. ↑ https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/ms-marcel-bayard-at-dock
  8. ↑ CANTAT II Ocean Survey Cruise Report (NIO Cruise Report No. 44), December 1971 (English)
  9. ^ Robert H. Mayer: "Project AFAR", in: Navy Civil Engineer , Vol. XIV, No. 1, Spring 1973, Washington, DC, pp. 4-6
  10. ↑ "AFAR Operations 1973 ', in: faceplate ., Vol 4, No. 1, Washington, DC, Spring 1973, pp. 7-9
  11. ↑ http://www.ship-db.de/Meyer/M/Marcel%20Bayard_5220887_SON_0000_1961.pdf
  12. ^ Norman Hooke: Modern Shipping Disasters 1963-1987 , Lloyds of London Press, London, 1989, ISBN 1-8504-4211-8
  13. ↑ 1971 formed through the merger of the "Ateliers et Chantiers du Havre" (ACH) with the "Ateliers et Chantiers de La Rochelle-Pallice"; the ACH was created in 1965 through the merger of three shipyards, Duchêne, Bossière and Augustin Normand, in Le Havre.

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