Snellius (A802)
The Mr. Ms. Snellius (A 802) is one of two hydrographic survey vessels of the Royal Netherlands Navy and a lead ship of the same class of ships. She was laid down in June 2002 at the royal Scheldt shipyard in Vlissingen in the Netherlands . The launch took place in April 2003 , the commissioning in December 2003. The Snellius is stationed in Den Helder .
The sister ship is the Mr. Ms. Luymes (A 803) .
Surname
The Snellius was named after the Dutch astronomer and mathematician Willebrord van Roijen Snell (* 1580 in Leiden , Netherlands ; † October 30, 1626), also known as Snell van Royen or Snellius.
tasks
The main tasks are military as well as civil maritime cartography , sea depth measurement and the search for underwater obstacles in the North Sea , the waters of the Netherlands Antilles and around Aruba .
The areas of application also include oceanography and meteorology . Additional scientific equipment can be accommodated on board for this purpose. Since the Dutch coast guard does not have its own ships, Mr. Ms. Snellius is also used for fisheries protection , coastal surveillance, search and rescue , environmental protection and disaster response. The ship is equipped with a hose barrier for the last two tasks.
Technical specifications
General data
- Length: 81.42 m
- Width: 13.10 m
- Draft: 4.00 m
- Displacement: 1,875 t
- Speed: 12.5 kn (measurement 4 - 8 kn / sonar 0 - 2 kn)
- Range: 4300 NM at 12.5 kn
- Crew: 18 men (accommodation for up to 42 people)
drive
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Diesel-electric
- 3 × diesel generators (each 700 kW)
- 2 × electric drive motors (each 575 kW)
- 1 × fixed pitch propeller
- 1 × bow thruster
Hydrographic sensors
- Kongsberg EA 600 hydrographic echo sounder
- Kongsberg Maritime fan plumb bob EM3000D
- MVP-100 Moving Vessel Profiler for CTD, sound velocity or profile measurements from the moving ship
- Octans II MRU movement sensor for determining course, roll, lift and pitch movements of the ship
- Small 5500 side scan sonar
- Hull mounted sonar
- Magnetometer MM Seaspy
- Ultra-short baseline (USBL) underwater navigation system
- UniMACS® 3000 Integrated Bridge System
- Thales Aquarius II GPS system
- LORAN-C system
- Automatic identification system (AIS)
- QINSy measurement software for the EM3000D fan-shaped plumb bob
- ISIS data acquisition and processing software for the Klein 5500 side-scan sonar
- Electronic map display and information system (ECDIS)
- Conning display
- Navigation radar
- compass
- Meteorological systems
gallery
- Mr. Ms. Snellius (A 802)
The Mr. Ms. Snellius (A 802) and the corvette Braunschweig (F 260) leave the port of Hamburg together.
swell
- HOV Product sheet. Schelde Naval Shipbuilding, archived from the original on October 31, 2006 ; accessed on June 16, 2016 .
- Spearhead Exhibitions Ltd .: Defense Systems & Equipment International . Exhibition & Conference, September 13-16, 2005, London. In: Exhibition catalog ( PDF; 3.45 MB )
- Survey equipment of the Royal Netherlands Navy ( PDF; 12 kB )
