Oceanic (ship, 1969)
 Salvage tug Oceanic off Norderney, 2005
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The Oceanic is a former German salvage tug that was operated from 1969 to 2011 by the Bugsier shipping company in Hamburg . The ship was sold to the Turkish Karpowership Company , a Karadeniz Holding company, in summer 2013 and renamed Osman Khan in 2013 , Orka Sultan in 2015 and again Oceanic in 2016 .
description
With a bollard pull of 179 tons and tension wires with 380 tons breaking strength, the Oceanic is still one of the most powerful salvage tugs in the world. For example, its successor, the Nordic, is even more powerful with a bollard pull of 201 tons.
history
The Oceanic was built in 1969 by F. Schichau GmbH , Bremerhaven, and was owned by the Bugsier-Reederei, Hamburg until 2013. When delivered in 1969, she and her sister ship Arctic were the most powerful tugs in the world.
The need for such powerful tugs on the part of Bugsier was justified with the second closure of the Suez Canal in 1967 by the Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser . Due to this blockade, all crude oil transports from the Arab oil-producing areas to Europe and America had to be around the Cape of Good Hope . This was accompanied by a steady increase in the size of the tankers used . Bugsier recognized early on that these new sizes of ships would require powerful tugs in the event of an accident. In addition, it was hoped for orders from the offshore oil production that was developing at the time .
For a longer period of time, the Oceanic was stationed in South African waters near the tanker route around the Cape of Good Hope. Here, for example, she took over the recovery of the stranded tanker Wafra in 1971. Another sensational mission was the recovery of the tanker Aegean Captain, which collided with another ship, in 1979.
In the 1990s were Oceanic and Arctic over longer periods launched . One reason for this was the decreasing demand for salvage tugs due to technical improvements in shipbuilding and operation, the other a change in the market in the offshore business. More and more anchor-handling tugs specially built for offshore use were used here, so that the market share of the salvage tugs used for this purpose continued to decline.
Since March 1996 she was chartered as an emergency tug to strengthen the federally owned towing capacity by the Waterways and Shipping Directorate North . The ship was constantly on call at sea off the island of Norderney and was able to come to the rescue even in the heaviest seas. The tug was visible from the North Sea islands of Norderney and Baltrum on the horizon in a north-easterly and north-westerly direction. The use of the Oceanic had become necessary due to the steadily increasing size of the ships on the large shipping lanes of the North Sea and due to some ship accidents (for example the stranding of the Pallas ); Because of the multifunctional requirements, previous commercial tugs were not powerful enough to ward off major shipping disasters on the high seas.
The crew remained in the standby position for 28 days and were then exchanged in Cuxhaven . Since the replacement by the Nordic , the Oceanic has been a trailer in Bremerhaven. During the Nordic shipyard in December 2011, she represented Oceanic in her former emergency tug position off Norderney and then stayed in Bremerhaven again from the beginning of 2011 to June 2013.
Whereabouts of the ship
The ship was sold to Karadeniz Holding's Turkish company Karpowership Company in June 2013. Osman Khan is the new name of the ship, which will operate under the Liberian flag from 1 July 2013 . In December 2013 the ship was transferred to the company Karadeniz Powership Osman Bey. There are different details about the further use of the ship. So the ship should possibly continue to be used as a tug or be converted into a yacht. On April 1, 2015, the tug was renamed again and is now called Orka Sultan . In 2016 the name was changed to Oceanic .
Successor ship
As the successor to the Oceanic , the deep- sea tug Nordic with 201 tons of bollard pull, 78 meters long and 16.4 meters wide was built at the Peene shipyard in Wolgast . The Nordic was christened on December 8, 2010 and took over the duties of Oceanic on January 1, 2011 .
See also
literature
- Norbert Clasen: Hurricanes, fire and ice - ocean tugs in use around the world . Verlag Edition Temmen, Bremen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86108-987-2
- Jan Mordhorst: Tug. Use in port and on the high seas . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2008, pp. 63-66, ISBN 978-3-7822-0974-8
Web links
- BUGSIER Fleet . Bugsier-, Reederei- und Bergungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
- The ocean rescue tug Oceanic . In: www.seatowage.de . Florian Horch. November 24, 2009. Retrieved January 27, 2011.
- Oceanic . In: www.tugboats.de . Stefan Thienel. November 24, 2009. Retrieved January 27, 2011.
References and individual references
- ↑ Oceanic became Osman Khan . In: Daily port report of July 4, 2013, p. 15
- ↑ DNV GL
- ^ Equasis homepage. Equasis, accessed July 29, 2018 .
- ↑ resume the Oceanic on www.tugboats.de, accessed on 18 May 2010
- ↑ The Oceanic's curriculum vitae at www.seatowage.de, accessed on May 18, 2010
- ↑ Each one eighth , Der Spiegel, 31/1979, July 30, 1979, accessed on July 5, 2013
- ↑ a b Heiner Otto: "Oceanic" will haul in future for Turkey , NWZ Online, July 5, 2013, accessed on July 5, 2013
- ↑ a b The oceanic tug "Oceanic" is sold ( memento from February 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Radio Bremen , buten un in , July 5, 2013.
- ↑ Section History of the Equasis entry for the Orka Sultan (English, access only after registration)
- ↑ References from Peene-Werft GmbH . Peene-Werft GmbH. November 24, 2009. Retrieved January 27, 2011.
- ↑ Verena Leidig: Successor to "Oceanic" is being built . In: Norderneyer morning . No. 234 , August 18, 2009, p. 2 ( online edition PDF; 1.0 MB).
- ↑ The most modern emergency tug Nordic put into service . Hamburger Abendblatt. December 8, 2010. Retrieved January 27, 2011.