Sietas type 54
 The Bell Valiant
|
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
The Type 54 is a type of container ship from the Sietas shipyard in Hamburg-Neuenfelde , of which two units were built in 1967.
history
The two ships were commissioned by the shipping companies Jonny Winter from Hamburg-Neuenfelde and Arnold Becker from Kingdom to charter them to the Irish Bell Lines on a long-term basis . The lead ship Anke expired on 14 February 1967 from the pile and was on 15 March 1967, the name Bell Venture delivered from the shipyard. The delivery of the second ship, which was launched on March 8, 1967 as Bernd Becker , took place on April 2, 1967 with the name Bell Valiant . Both units were initially used in liner service between Waterford (Ireland) and Rotterdam-Rozenburg (Netherlands) together with the container ship Bell Vanguard built a year earlier . After the Bell Lines charters ended, they ran as Linde and Bernd Becker on various European feeder services from 1977 .
Linde , which was taken over by the Heino Winter shipping company in 1977 , went to the Walter Grages shipping company in Glückstadt the following year , which it sold to the Karl Engel shipping company in Schneverdingen in 1985 . In May 1993 she was sold to the United States and registered as Stephanie with her home port in Kingstown in St. Vincent and the Grenadines . After further changes of ownership and renaming, the ship , which was subsequently equipped with two mobile cranes , last operated in the Caribbean from 2004 as a Precision Express under the Cambodian flag . It was removed from Lloyd's Register in 2011 .
The second ship, the Bernd Becker , was sold to the shipping company Martin Spaleck in Schneverdingen in 1982 and then renamed the Kormoran . On December 8, 1986, a fire broke out in the engine room on a container voyage from Antwerp to Hull at position 52.15 ° N, 02.30 ° E. The ship anchored near Lowestoft , where the fire spread to the deckhouse . The next day the cormorant was towed to Vlissingen and declared a total loss there. The burned-out damaged vehicle arrived on December 27, 1986 to be scrapped at Kerkhove Holland BV in Zwijndrecht .
technology
The two units were built in section and were based on the Type 49 ship Bell Vanguard . However, they were around half a meter wider and had a different hatch layout, which meant that 74 instead of 67 20-foot standard containers (TEU) could be stowed on board.
The Type 54 had a total length of 74.43 m (66.86 m Lpp , 70.48 m freeboard length ) and a width of 13.03 m. The height from the keel to the upper deck was 5.90 m, the maximum draft 3.61 m. Both ships were measured at 499 GRT and 1,153 dwt on delivery . In 1995 the Stephanie (formerly Anke ) was re-measured with 1,240 GT , 1,186 dwt and 74.66 m Lüa. The Anke was by a 1400 hp paid eight-cylinder four-stroke diesel engine of the manufacturer Atlas mAb driven, via a reduction gear to a fixed propeller worked. The Bernd Becker had an identical diesel engine from the manufacturer Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz (KHD) with an output of 1,500 hp.
The ships
| Sietas type 54 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building name | Construction number |
IMO number | Launched delivery |
Client | Renaming and whereabouts |
| Anke | 597 | 6708678 | 02/14/1967 03/15/1967 |
Jonny Winter, Hamburg-Neuenfelde | Delivered as Bell Venture → 1977 Linde → 1993 Stephanie → 5/1995 Ocean Eagle 1 → 6/1995 Sea Eagle → 1996 Viking Trader → 1998 Optimist → 1999 Pincess L → 2000 Le Printemps → 2004 Precision Express , deleted from Lloyd's Register in 2012 |
| Bernd Becker | 609 | 6711778 | 03/08/1967 04/02/1967 |
Arnold Becker, Kingdom | delivered as Bell Valiant → 1977 Bernd Becker → 1982 Kormoran , on December 8, 1986 fire in the engine room at position 52.15 ° N; 02.30 ° E, arrived in Zwijndrecht on December 27, 1986 for scrapping and scrapped there at the beginning of 1987 by Kerkhove Holland BV |
literature
- Gert Uwe Detlefsen: The type ships of the Sietas shipyard. Verlag HM Hauschild, Bremen, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89757-494-6
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gert Uwe Detlefsen: The type ships of the Sietas shipyard. Verlag HM Hauschild, Bremen, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89757-494-6 , p. 179
- ↑ Ship data of the Sietas newbuildings from the archive of the shipbuilder Klaus Krummlinde