Ruschsand (ship)
 2017 at the Klippkanne base
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The Ruschsand is a multi-purpose ship operated by the Bremerhaven Waterways and Shipping Office .
history
The ship was ordered in January 2008 by the mechanical engineering department for the Bremerhaven Waterways and Shipping Authority. It was built under construction number 4000 at the Fassmer shipyard in Berne / Motzen. The ship was christened on December 2, 2009 at the construction and buoy yard of the Bremerhaven Waterways and Shipping Authority and then put into service. The godmother was Stephanie Weber, wife of the deputy head of the Waterways and Shipping Office.
The construction costs of the ship of around 4.75 million euros were paid from the budget of the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS).
The ship is based on the Fassmer blueprint BL 20 and BL 21 nautical sign ships built for various waterways and shipping authorities. It is named after the Weser Island north of Berne, which is now part of the Weserdeicher Sands.
commitment
The vehicle, built as a barge, is used for work, supervision and inspection trips as well as transport and supply trips on the Lower Weser to the sea border near Bremerhaven . It also serves as a push boat and can be equipped with a silt harrow for clearing construction harbors and backwaters and used for placing and retrieving small shipping signs .
The ship is stationed in Brake at the Klippkanne base of the Blexen branch of the Waterways and Shipping Office.
Technical data and equipment
The ship is powered by two MAN - diesel engines (model: D2876 LE 403) with a capacity of each 331 kW driven. The motors each act on a fixed propeller via a ship reversing and reduction gear . There is a transverse thruster control system in the bow of the ship .
Two are for the power supply Volvo - diesel generators installed with a capacity of 92 kW. One of the two generators is equipped with a honeycomb cooler to ensure the energy supply on board even if the ship falls dry .
The ship has three decks . The wheelhouse is located in the fore section on the raised forecastle deck. There are rooms for the crew with three emergency berths under the forecastle deck . Behind the wheelhouse is the open working deck with a hydraulic crane on the starboard side . The crane has a load capacity of 1.2 t with a maximum radius of 10.67 m.
A rear deployment device can be installed at the rear with the aid of the crane. With her underwater work equipment, such. B. a silt harrow, be lowered into the water. There is a rope guide roller in the bulwark for towing operations . There is also a tow hook on the working deck. The ship is equipped with a surveying plumb bob.
For use as a push boat, the ship is equipped with a push platform with two push shoulders in the fore section. There are two manual coupling on the foredeck overcome , at half the length of the vessel on each side of a coupling bollards.
Decksprahm
The ship has a decking frame that was built by the Bolle shipyard in Neudorben. The construction costs of the bridge, which went into service on August 12, 2009 in Brake, amounted to 1.5 million euros.
The decking is 30.25 m long, 8.70 m wide and 2.10 m high. The draft is 1.20 m. The water displacement of the empty bridge is 132 t, the loading capacity 80 t. The Prahm is equipped with two anchor piles with which it can be anchored up to a water depth of 9.5 m. At the stern there is a small wheelhouse and a double rudder system as well as a lounge in a deck structure. The auxiliary engine room is also located here with two auxiliary diesel generators that drive a generator with an electrical output of 21 kW or 26 kVA . The prahm has a ramp at the bow, which can be used to bring rolling equipment on board. The ramp can be loaded with up to 40 t. There is a hydraulic crane on deck with a payload of 1.3 t at a radius of 12.15 m.
For pushing operation, the prahm on the aft ship is provided with a sub-device consisting of a pushing shoulder and a cable coupling system with two cable winches.
See also
literature
- Karsten Krebs, Olaf Mayer, Ulrich Günther: The multi-purpose work ship "Ruschsand" of the WSA Bremerhaven. In: Wasser- und Schifffahrtsdirektion Nordwest (ed.): Between Weser and Ems 2010. Issue 44, topic 7, pp. 35–41 ( online ; PDF; 466 kB).
Web links
- Ruschsand with covering cream DP 4175. WSA Weser-Jade-Nordsee
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d baptism and commissioning of the MzS “Ruschsand” , specialist center for mechanical engineering north. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
- ↑ New construction of watercraft , specialist department for mechanical engineering north. Retrieved December 3, 2012.
- ↑ a b In service: Full speed ahead for "Ruschsand" , NWZ-Online, December 3, 2009. Accessed February 8, 2016.
- ↑ a b c New multi-purpose work ship for the Bremerhaven Waterways and Shipping Authority (PDF; 212 kB) , Bremerhaven Waterways and Shipping Authority, press release, November 27, 2009. Accessed December 3, 2012.
- ↑ Page of the shipyard with pram images ( Memento of 29 November 2011 at the Internet Archive ) (said here deck barge is not listed on the page). Retrieved December 4, 2012.
- ↑ Special ships, outskirts of Blexen with Klippkanne base, Bremerhaven Waterways and Shipping Office. Retrieved December 3, 2012.