Maria S. Merian (ship)
 The Maria S. Merian in Kiel
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The Maria S. Merian is a Rostock- based research vessel owned by the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and managed by the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde . The ship was named after the naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian . In terms of its size, it is one of the medium-sized research ships, of which the German research ship fleet currently has four, and in terms of its intended use is primarily intended as an ice edge research ship. The ship management is carried out by the Leeraner shipping company Briese Schiffahrt . Besides the Polarstern , it is the only German research vessel that can operate in the ice. The German Research Foundation supports Maria S. Merian as an auxiliary research facility .
Technical data and usage
The ship is almost 94.8 meters long, 19.2 meters wide and has a draft of 6.50 to a maximum of 7.00 meters and is measured with a GT of 5,573. The curb weight is 4,493 tons. The maximum speed is 15 knots , the standing time at sea 35 days and the maximum range of 7,500 nautical miles . Even in its basic configuration, the ship has a number of laboratories for various specialist fields, and a maximum load of 150 tons of additional scientific material is possible. It is driven by two swiveling pod drives and a pump jet, which ensure very good maneuverability and the possibility of precisely maintaining a position using DP (dynamic positioning). The ship can be operated without wastewater for 48 hours (clean-ship mode) in order to protect sensitive biotopes . All waste water that arises is fed into collecting tanks, processed into sterile service water in the biological-mechanical on-board sewage treatment plant and only then released. The exhaust gas is almost free of soot due to the fact that the engines are operated exclusively with gas oil and the modern injection system. All of these and other measures have resulted in the ship being allowed to carry the Blue Angel, which means that it is particularly environmentally friendly in ship operation. The ship is certified as Polar Class 7 and can therefore operate in medium ice (up to 80 cm).
Machine system
The ship has two independent engine rooms with all the facilities to remain manoeuvrable in the event of an engine system failure. The drive is diesel-electric by two Schottel POD drives with 1900 kW each and a Schottel Pumpjet with 1600 kW output. The drive current is powered by four MAN - Diesel generators produced twice in 1500 and twice in 1100 kW kW. A 250 kW diesel generator is available as an emergency power generator.
Users
In addition to the institute in Warnemünde, the ship's user groups include a number of other institutions and universities in northern Germany, above all the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven , the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel , and the Helmholtz Center Geesthacht (HZG) in Geesthacht , the Marum - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen . 23 scientists and 23 crew members can be accommodated. A ship's doctor takes the place of the 23rd scientist on research trips outside the range of sea rescue helicopters . The ship is equipped for research work in the Arctic , for observations of the Gulf Stream and the oceans (their interaction with the global climate ) and for investigations of the seabed up to a depth of 10,000 meters. The trips are coordinated by the Meteor / Merian control center at the Institute for Oceanography (IfM) at the University of Hamburg .
history
The Maria S. Merian was after 12-year break, the first newly built research vessel Germany. Three quarters of the costs of around 56.4 million euros were borne by the federal government. A share of 12.5 percent was taken over by the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , the states of Hamburg , Schleswig-Holstein and Bremen share the remaining 12.5 percent in equal parts. The state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is the owner of the ship that sails under the German flag. The construction of the Maria S. Merian was part of a renewal of the German research ship fleet, as two of the currently available medium-sized research ships are due to be decommissioned in the near future due to their age. This applies to A. v., Which operated from 1967 to 2004 and is also based in Warnemünde . Humboldt and Poseidon , which entered service in 1976 and operates from Kiel , which will be replaced by Maria S. Merian in addition to Valdivia , which was decommissioned in 1999 .
The ship with hull number 1566 was built by the Kröger shipyard in Schacht-Audorf in Schleswig-Holstein and christened on July 26, 2005 by Federal Minister Edelgard Bulmahn . Two years earlier, on June 11, 2003, the Maritim Ltd. shipyard, which is also part of the Kröger Group, took place. in Danzig (Poland; Polish : Gdańsk) the keel laying. The first test voyage in which the ship and its equipment were tested under operational conditions took the Maria S. Merian from September 17, 2005 in the Biscay , the Iberian Sea, an area west of the Spanish Atlantic coast and in the Gulf of Bothnia. On February 9, 2006 the ship was handed over to the Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde. His home port is thus Rostock . In the period from August 2007 to mid-December 2007, the Maria S. Merian lay unscheduled in Kiel's Ostuferhafen due to drive damage . As a result, four month-long research trips in the northern and central Atlantic were canceled. After a test drive in February 2008, the Maria S. Merian left Las Palmas on Gran Canaria for further, very successful voyages in the South Atlantic. The destination port of Walfischbai, Namibia, is a bit unusual for an ice edge research ship - but the ship also proved its suitability in the tropics. With Mindelo on Cape Verde as a stopover for the change of scientist, we went to the shipyard in Emden in June. There the ship got an additional chamber module on the 1st superstructure deck - one chamber each for the electronics technician and the system operator. The total number of a maximum of 46 people traveling has not changed as the free fall lifeboat no longer offers space.
The ship was picked up on February 28, 2010 in the port of Limassol by the RoRo ferry Notos of the shipping company Salamis Lines Ltd. rammed. The stern and the free-fall lifeboat were damaged. The damage was repaired in September 2010.
Web links
- Website of the ship
- Handbook Maria S. Merian, on the website of the University of Hamburg (PDF file; 20 MB)
- Travel of the FS Maria S. Merian - information at the IfM Hamburg with weekly research reports
- IOW - The Ice Edge Research Vessel Maria S. Merian Information from the Institute for Baltic Sea Research
- Information about the ship at Briese Schifffahrt (with various additional information)
- List of all trips made so far with links to the scientific trip reports
Footnotes
- ↑ Collision of the ferry with RV Maria S. Merian ( Memento of the original from May 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 609 kB) , press release of the University of Hamburg, March 10, 2010. Accessed October 4, 2012.
