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The Panega ( Bulgarian Панега ) was a Bulgarian product and chemical tanker owned by the Navigation Maritime Bulgarian shipping company . The ship became famous when it was kidnapped by Somali pirates in 2010 on its way to Pakistan in the Gulf of Aden to be scrapped.
Construction and technical data
The ship was to order the state shipping company Navigation Maritime Bulgare 1985 at the Georgi Dimitrov-shipyard in Varna under the hull number 251 attached to Kiel . The ship belonged to the class Project 615 , the first of three units of the shipyard was the Panega , followed in 1987 by the Batova ( hull number 252) and in 1990 by the Ticha ( hull number 253). The ship was designed for the simultaneous transport of up to five different petroleum products. When it was launched , the ship was named Panega after the Zlatna Panega river in northern Bulgaria.
The ship was 117.76 meters long, 16.21 meters wide and had a draft of 6.5 meters. It was measured at 4,499 GT or 1,870 NRZ, the load-bearing capacity was 5,848 tdw . The six-cylinder marine diesel engine was a MAN engine manufactured under license from the manufacturer VEB Maschinenbau Halberstadt, developed 4,000 hp and allowed a speed of 13.0 knots . The crew consisted of 15 people.
history
From the commissioning of the ship in 1986 until it was scrapped in 2010, the tanker was exclusively in service with the Navigation Maritime Bulgarian shipping company . Only photos from the Internet are available for the routes traveled: According to this, the Black Sea appears to have been the main sailing area ; the ports called include Burgas and Varna in Bulgaria and Theodosia and Sevastopol in Crimea . The ship also ran through the Corinth Canal , and Rotterdam is also known as a port of call.
Somali pirates took control of the tanker with 15 Bulgarian crew members on May 11, 2010 in the Gulf of Aden , about 100 nautical miles east of Aden , in the internationally guarded corridor. The unloaded ship was on its way to Pakistan , where it was to be scrapped.
On September 9, 2010, the tanker and 15 crew members were released by the Somali pirates in Garacad. The crew of the Bulgarian ship was doing well.
literature
- Ambrose Greenway: Comecon merchant ships , [Publisher] Kenneth Mason, Emsworth / Hampshire, 4th edition 1989, ISBN 0-85937-349-5 .
Web links
- Photos and framework data for the Panega at nok-schiffsbilder.de , accessed on May 17, 2019
- Photos of the Panega at marinetraffic.com , accessed May 17, 2019
- Photos of the Panega at shipspotting.com , accessed May 17, 2019
- Website of the shipping company Navibulgar (Bulgarian / English), accessed on May 17, 2019
- Navibulgar news December 2012 - January 2013: History of the shipping company (PDF) (Bulgarian), accessed on May 17, 2019
- Seefahrts-Zeitung: Bulgarian tanker "Panega" kidnapped by Somali pirates (Bulgarian), accessed on May 19, 2019
- Seefahrts-Zeitung: As a reminder: The Bulgarian product tanker "Panega" (Bulgarian), accessed on May 19, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ reference list of Bulyard shipyard Varna
- ^ Greenway, p. 133
- ↑ Seefahrts-Zeitung: As a reminder: The Bulgarian product tanker "Panega"
- ↑ Seefahrts-Zeitung: Bulgarian tanker "Panega" kidnapped by Somali pirates
- ↑ Photos and framework data for the Panega at nok-schiffsbilder.de
- ↑ Panega at marinetraffic.com
- ↑ ada / dpa (May 12, 2010) Pirates hijack ship Der Spiegel that is ready for scrap (accessed on May 12, 2010)
- ↑ no author information (May 12, 2010) Bulgarian Chemical product tanker hijacked in the Gulf of Aden ( Memento from May 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) EU NAVFOR Somalia - Operation Atalanta (accessed on May 12, 2010)
- ↑ no author information (September 9, 2010) Pirated merchant vessel PANEGA released ( Memento of September 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) EU NAVFOR Somalia - Operation Atalanta (accessed on September 11, 2010)