Saturn (ship type)
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The type Saturn is a series of four container motor ships from the Warnow shipyard , which was put into operation between 1987 and 1989.
Special
The four ships commissioned by Deutsche Seereederei have parking spaces for 1,164 TEU. They are 174.20 meters long and 25.4 meters wide. A MAN two-stroke diesel engine of type K 8 SZ 70/125 B with an output of 12,166 kW serves as the drive .
After the Mercur and Mercur II types, the Saturn ship was the third further developed series of full container ships from a GDR shipyard and is the result of the Perspective Ship 2000 research project . The following eight partners have been working on a modern cargo ship since 1979: Kombinat Schiffbau, Kombinat Maritime Transport and Port Management, Fischkombinat Rostock, Wilhelm Pieck University Rostock , Engineering College for Maritime Studies Warnemünde / Wustrow, Engineering College Wismar , DSRK , Maritime Office of the GDR. This type of ship corresponded in the objective of the German ship of the future (SdZ). It is a single screw motor ship in double hull construction with a main deck and underlying side deck strips, a long forecastle with a wide transom as well as a bow and stern bulge. The ships were designed for worldwide travel. With a draft of 9.60 meters, they run 17.5 knots. The crew consists of an average of 25 people. There is also cabin space for up to eleven interns on board.
The ships
Four ships were built for the Deutsche Seereederei , with the Walter Ulbricht being the last new build to be delivered to the still state-owned DSR.
| Type Saturn ships | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building name | Build number | IMO number |
Keel laying, launching, delivery |
Renaming and whereabouts | |
| Ernst Thalmann | 181 | 8607438 | December 17, 1985 November 20, 1986 May 27, 1987 |
1990 Mecklenburg , 1996 Mecklenburg I , 1998 Admirality , 2001 MSC Indonesia , 2002 Budi Waja , 2005 River Mas , from April 20, 2010 scrapped at Jiangmen Xinhui Shuangshui Shipbreaking Company in Xinhui. | |
| Wilhelm Pieck | 182 | 8705424 | - April 21, 1987 September 1987 |
1990 Brandenburg , 1998 Montral Senator , 2006 Strait Mas , scrapped from July 18, 2010 at Jiangmen Xinhui Shuangshui Shipbreaking Company in Xinhui. | |
| Otto Grotewohl | 183 | 8705436 | - January 18, 1988 June 1988 |
1990 Saxony , 1991 Sea Swift , 1992 Saxony , 1998 Livorno Senator , 2004 TS Keelung , 2005 Dubai Ambition 2007 Kanivu , 2011 Nivu , scrapped in Alang from April 24, 2011. | |
| Walter Ulbricht | 184 | 8705448 | - December 23, 1988 May 1989 |
1990 Thuringia , 1994 Sea Falcon , 1994 Shanghai Express , 2004 Hyundai Opal , 2007 Sinotrans Kaohsiung , stranded for scrapping on March 31, 2009 in Chittagong . | |
literature
- Gert Uwe Detlefsen: VEB Deutsche Seereederei Rostock. Self-published, Bad Segeberg 2005, ISBN 3-928473-81-6 , pp. 75/76 and 314 ff. (Deutsche Reederei, Volume 23)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ship of the future (PDF; 143 kB)
- ↑ The Ernst Thälmann on Miramar Ship Index (English) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Wilhelm Pieck on Miramar Ship Index (English) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Otto Grotewohl on Miramar Ship Index (English) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Daily port report , May 30, 2011.
- ↑ The Walter Ulbricht on Miramar Ship Index (English) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
