Mare Britannicum

Mare Britannicum

The stranded APL Panama

Ship data flag  Gibraltar Comoros   other ship names APL Kaohsiung Kaohsiung APL Kaohsiung APL Panama Mare Britannicum YM Wilmington Trade Freda Rita Ship type Full container ship Callsign ZDNA3 home port Gibraltar Owner MS "Mare Britannicum" Schiffahrtsges. Shipping company Hansa Mare shipping company Shipyard Hyundai Heavy Industries , Ulsan Build number 1266 Keel laying July 3, 2000 Launch December 1, 2000 Whereabouts 2017 demolition in Chittagong

Ship dimensions and crew length 260.68 m ( Lüa ) 248.05 m ( Lpp ) width 32.25 m Side height 19.30 m Draft Max. 12.50 m measurement 40,306 GT / 24,819 NRZ

Machine system machine 1 × diesel engine (Sulzer 9 RTA 84 C) Machine performance 36,450 kW (49,558 hp) Top speed 25 kn (46 km / h) propeller 1 × fixed propeller

Transport capacities Load capacity 52,267 dwt Container 4,038 TEU Connections for refrigerated containers 430

Others Classifications Germanic Lloyd Registration numbers IMO no. 9235074

The Mare Britannicum was a full container ship built in 2000 .

history

The ship was built in 2000 under the hull number 1266 at the Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea, for the Bremen-based Hansa Mare shipping company . The keel was laid on July 3rd, the launch on December 1st of that year. The ship was completed on December 27, 2000.

Stranded in 2005

On December 25, 2005, the ship ran aground as APL Panama on the Mexican Pacific coast near the city of Ensenada . There were 1,805 containers on board  . The ship, which was only slightly damaged, was recovered by the US salvage company Titan Salvage and made afloat again by March 10, 2006.

In December 2016 the ship was renamed Rita and registered in the Comoros . In early 2017, the Rita was stranded and scrapped in Chittagong .

Technical data and equipment

The ship is powered by a two-stroke, nine-cylinder diesel engine made by Sulzer , which was built under license by Hyundai Heavy Industries. The engine's output is 36,450  kW . The engine acts on a fixed propeller .

Two generators with an apparent power of 2,213 kVA each  and one generator with an apparent power of 1,975 kVA are available for the power supply. In addition, an emergency generator with an apparent power of 188 kVA was installed.

The container capacity is 4,038  TEU . There are 430 connections for refrigerated containers. The containers can be loaded in twelve 40-foot bays in front of and four 40-foot bays behind the deckhouse, with space for up to 13 containers side by side. There is a breakwater in front of the first bay.

Web links

Commons : Mare Britannicum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• 2006 Nightmare - M / V APL Panama
• APL Panama

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b c} MS “Mare Britannicum” ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Fleet list of the Hansa Mare shipping company.
2. ^ APL Panama (Ensenada - Christmas Day 2005). Retrieved January 3, 2014 . 
3. ↑ M / V APL PANAMA ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Titan Salvage.