Pompei (ship)
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The Pompei was a Belgian Steinstürzer.
history
The ship was built in 1988 under the hull number 2685 at the Van Langerbrugge Scheepswerf in Ghent .
At the beginning of 2015 the ship went to Aabenraa for demolition .
2009 pirate attack
On the morning of April 18, 2009, the ship, which was en route from Dubai to Durban in South Africa, was attacked and hijacked by Somali pirates about 185 km north of the Seychelles . At that time there were ten people on board, including the Dutch captain , two Belgians, four Croatians and three Filipinos. The ship and crew were released on June 28 after paying a ransom. The amount of the ransom is unknown, but the pirates are said to have originally asked for eight million US dollars.
Two pirates involved in the hijacking of the ship were caught and sentenced to nine and ten years in prison, respectively. A pirate leader and one of his accomplices were lured to Belgium in October 2013 with a made-up film project in which the life of the pirate leader was to be filmed and arrested there. The pirate leader should u. a. also be responsible for the hijackings of the RoRo ship Faina in September 2008 and the tanker Sirius Star in November 2008.
Technical data and equipment
The ship had a diesel-electric drive with two electric motors with an output of 405 kW each , each of which drove an Aquamaster propeller pod. The ship thus reached a speed of 9 knots . Two Caterpillar diesel engines were available for the power supply, driving two diesel generators with a total output of 818 kW ( apparent output 1022 kVA ). A Caterpillar / Indar diesel generator with an output of 275 kW (apparent output 344 kVA) and emergency generators were also installed.
The ship, equipped with a transverse thruster system with an output of 700 kW, had a system for dynamic positioning with which it could keep the desired position to within 20 cm. The ship also had an anchor system with six anchors, four of which were on the starboard side and two on the port side.
The deckhouse is in the forward area of the ship. There was space for 19 people on board.
The ship had an open deck area of around 300 m², which was divided into four 13.20 × 5.70 meter areas. Each of these areas had a hydraulic stone pusher. The entire load of stones could be pushed down the side of the deck in around eleven minutes. The open deck could also be used for other cargoes than stones and to transport machines and other work equipment. Various cranes could be installed in the stern area. The ship could also be equipped with a downpipe so that stones could not be sunk laterally with the stone slider, but with the help of an excavator and a funnel via the downpipe to the seabed. The downpipe had a diameter of one meter and could be used in water depths of up to 30 meters.
Web links
- Data sheet of the ship (Side Stone Dumping Vessel) , Jan de Nul Group (PDF file, approx. 600 kB)
- Data sheet of the ship (Rock Dumping Vessel with Telescopic Fall Pipe) , Jan de Nul Group (PDF file, approx. 2.1 MB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Ship sales , THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung , March 2, 2015.
- ↑ Chris V. Thangham: Pirates seize Belgian construction ship 'Pompei' off Aden , Digital Journal, April 18, 2009. Accessed November 7, 2013.
- ↑ a b Hijacked ship The Pompei and kidnapped crew released ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), Belga Media Support, June 28, 2009.
- ↑ Somali pirates free Belgian ship , BBC News , June 28, 2009. Retrieved November 7, 2013.
- ↑ Hayley O'Keeffe: Somali pirate kingpin arrested in Belgium after being lured to country by promise film would make him famous , Daily Mail , October 15, 2013. Retrieved November 7, 2013.
- ↑ Somalis caught in Belgium: Investigators catch pirate boss with film offer , Spiegel Online , October 14, 2013. Retrieved on November 7, 2013.
- ↑ Isabel Pfaff: Celebrity Pirate in the Fahndungsfalle , Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 15, 2013. Retrieved on November 7, 2013.
- ↑ a b Pompei Stone Dumping Barge built by Langerbrugge Shipyards , HSB International, pages 37–38 (PDF file, approx. 2 MB). Retrieved November 7, 2013.