Rena (ship)

Rena

Ship data flag  Liberia other ship names Andaman Sea ZIM America Ship type Container Ship class ZIM America class Callsign A8XJ7 home port Monrovia Owner Daina Shipping Company Shipping company Ciel Shipmanagement SA Costamare Inc. Shipyard Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft , Kiel Build number 247 Keel laying 4th October 1989 takeover April 1, 1990 Whereabouts Aggravated on October 5, 2011, broken on January 8, 2012.

Ship dimensions and crew length 236 m ( Lüa ) 224.50 m ( Lpp ) width 32.20 m Draft Max. 12.00 m measurement 37.209 GT / 16.454 NRZ   crew 20th

Machine system machine 1 × diesel engine ( Cegielski - Sulzer 8RTA76) Machine performance 21,996 kW (29,906 hp) Top speed 21 kn (39 km / h) propeller 1 × fixed propeller

Transport capacities Load capacity 47,230 dwt Container 3,351 TEU

Others Classifications American Bureau of Shipping Registration numbers IMO : 8806802

The Rena was a Panamax - container ship , flying the flag of Liberia continued. The ship was designed by the Greek company Costamare bereedert and was for five years at the of June 2011 Mediterranean Shipping Company charter.

Construction, commissioning and use

The Rena was built as ZIM America under construction number  247 at Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft AG in Kiel . The keel was laid on October 4, 1989, and completed on April 1, 1990.

The ship was from a low-speed eight-cylinder - two-stroke diesel engine of the type Sulzer  driven RTA76 provided by the Polish manufacturer Cegielski was built under license. It acted directly on the fixed propeller and generated almost 22,000 kW at a speed of 98 rpm  .

The ZIM America was put into service as the lead ship of the seven-ship ZIM America class and launched under the flag of Israel for the Israeli company Zim Integrated Shipping Services . She later sailed as the Andaman Sea under the flag of Malta before serving as Rena under the Liberian flag.

Average off New Zealand

→ Main article : Oil spill off New Zealand in 2011

Coordinates: 37 ° 32 ′ 25 ″  S , 176 ° 25 ′ 45 ″  E

Wreck of the Rena​

New Zealand

On October 5, 2011 at around 2:20 am local time, the Rena , which was 9.60 m draft on the way from Napier to Tauranga on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island , ran to about 20 km from Tauranga in the Bay Of Plenty lying on astrolabe reef .

By the emergence of the received Rena a list of about twelve degrees; two holds were flooded, the fuel tanks initially remained undamaged. However, oil leaked from broken pipes. The Bay of Plenty was threatened by the accident . In the days after the accident, over 3000 liters of the dispersant Corexit 9500A were sprayed onto the oil spill, but the desired effect of the dispersion did not occur with the heavy oil of the "Rena". On November 13, 2011, the pumping out of the oil was completed, but small residues remained in the ship.

The crack from which the Rena later broke apart is clearly visible

By October 20, a total of 88 containers had gone overboard. After several storms, a deep crack was drawn through the wreck . On January 8, 2012, the ship broke in two during a storm, with more containers going overboard. Two days later, the drifted stern was almost entirely below the surface of the water, except for the break and the navigating bridge. On April 4, the stern slid further down the reef in a storm with waves ten meters high and sank completely.

In May 2012, the Filipino captain and navigational officer, who were charged with negligent driving, pollution and obstruction of justice, were sentenced to seven months' imprisonment. The captain deviated from the planned route under time pressure and made fatal driving errors, the reason said.

See also

• List of major oil spills

Web links

Commons : Rena  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• New Zealand Coast Guard homepage with timeline, high-resolution photos and detailed information on the Rena disaster .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} ABS Record: Rena ( Memento from April 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), American Bureau of Shipping.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Costamare Inc .: Our Fleet. Retrieved October 13, 2011 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Freighter Rena broken off New Zealand. Basler Zeitung , January 8, 2012. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} TradeWinds: Ship Info. Retrieved October 13, 2011 . 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Maritime New Zealand: Tauranga incident page - timeline. Archived from the original on November 13, 2011 ; Retrieved October 19, 2011 . 
6. ↑ New Zealand fears oil spills on the coast. Spiegel Online, October 9, 2011.
7. ↑ Video footage: Oil spill from the MV Rena. Bay of Plenty Times, October 6, 2011.
8. ↑ report at tvnz.co.nz (English).
9. ↑ Rena: Booster pump blows out. The New Zealand Herald, October 20, 2011.
10. ↑ Wreck of the "Rena" threatens to break apart. ( Memento from January 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) THB - Deutsche Schiffahrts-Zeitung , January 3, 2012.
11. ↑ Kirsty Johnston et al. a .: Sinking Rena leaking oil ( English ) In: Waikato Times . January 10, 2012. Retrieved April 5, 2012.
12. ↑ Rena's star gone from reef. ( English ) In: Otago Daily Times . April 4, 2012. Retrieved April 5, 2012.
13. ^ Prison sentence for Rena captain. Stuttgarter Zeitung of May 25, 2012, page 8.