The Queen of the Netherlands is one of the world's largest suction dredgers . With its extremely powerful suction pumps, the ship can suck up to 160 meters of water.
Ship data
The ship has a length of 230.71 meters and a width of 32 meters. The draft is up to 11.46 meters. The loading volume is 35,500 m³. The installed pumps have an output of 3 × 1000 kW and 2 × 6000 kW. A bow thruster with 2650 kW is installed as a maneuvering aid.
The ship reaches a speed of up to 18 knots and has 46 crew members on board during normal operation.
Calls
In addition to dredging work, the ship was used to salvage wreckage from Swissair Flight 111 that crashed in September 1998 . Investigations into the cause of the crash were carried out on the basis of the wreckage recovered by the Queen of the Netherlands .
