Sovereign Mærsk type
 The Sovereign Mærsk in Japan
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The ships of the Sovereign Mærsk type , the shipping company's internal S-Class , were the world's largest container ships when they were built in 1997 .
history
The series developed in the mid-1990s from the former size record holder, the Regina-Mærsk type , was delivered from September 1997 by the Danish Odense Staalskibsværft . The client for the series was the Copenhagen-based shipping company Maersk Line , where the ships are still in service today. The Sovereign Maersk type was created in two series. The first five ships were built in 1997/98, and another six replicas followed between 1998 and 2000. In the years 1999 to 2002 the shipyard built an only slightly further developed type of ship, the Mærsk C-Class . These last eight ships can also be seen as the third series, as the shipping company manages them together with the other S-class ships.
The S-Class ships are among the Post-Panamax container ships and have a capacity of 6600 TEU (loaded containers weighing 14 tonnes each), or 8160 TEU in real storage spaces. The ships can stow 17 containers transversely and a total of 13 layers on top of each other. The main engines used were the most powerful diesel engines on the market at the time.
In July 2020, the scrapping of the Sine Mærsk became known. She was stranded in Aliağa on August 21, 2020 and is the largest container ship to be scrapped to date.
Svendborg Mærsk lost its container in February 2014
In February 2014 the Svendborg Mærsk was on a journey from Northern Europe to Colombo. In the Bay of Biscay , the ship lost around 520 containers of the deck cargo during severe bad weather with wave heights of up to ten meters. On the evening of February 17, the port of Malaga was called to unload further damaged cargo, stow the remaining cargo and repair damage to the ship. Around 85% of the lost containers were empty and none of the loaded containers contained dangerous goods. As a result of the incident, the previously highest number of containers was lost in a single event. According to the World Shipping Council , whose members represent around 90% of the world's container shipping capacity, it exceeds the average total of 350 containers lost per year.
The ships
| Sovereign-Mærsk type | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building name | Construction number |
IMO number |
Keel laying, launching, delivery |
Renaming and whereabouts |
| Sovereign Mærsk | L160 | 9120841 | March 14, 1997 July 31, 1997 September 17, 1997 |
so in motion |
| Susan Mærsk | L161 | 9120853 | June 24, 1997 October 24, 1997 December 12, 1997 |
so in motion |
| Sally Mærsk | L162 | 9120865 | October 3, 1997 January 23, 1998 March 6, 1998 |
so in motion |
| Sine Mærsk | L163 | 9146455 | January 6, 1998 April 24, 1998 June 29, 1998 |
from July 9, 2020 demolition at Sok GS in Aliağa |
| Svendborg Mærsk | L164 | 9146467 | April 1, 1998 August 14, 1998 September 25, 1998 |
so in motion |
| Sofie Mærsk | L165 | 9146479 | July 5, 1998 October 30, 1998 December 15, 1998 |
so in motion |
| Svend Mærsk | L166 | 9166778 | October 12, 1998 January 29, 1999 March 15, 1999 |
2016 Aotea Mærsk → so on the move |
| Soro Mærsk | L167 | 9166780 | January 1, 1999 April 23, 1999 June 4, 1999 |
so in motion |
| Skagen Mærsk | L168 | 9166792 | March 23, 1999 July 28, 1999 September 11, 1999 |
so in motion |
| Clifford Mærsk | L169 | 9198575 | June 13, 1999 October 8, 1999 November 9, 1999 |
so in motion |
| Cornelius Mærsk | L170 | 9198587 | September 13, 1999 February 4, 2000 March 19, 2000 |
so in motion |
| Data: Equasis, large tonnage | ||||
Individual evidence
- ↑ Register at containership-info (English)
- ^ AP Moller-Maersk scraps largest containership to date. July 8, 2020, accessed on July 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Update Svendborg Maersk - loss of containers at Maersk Line , February 19, 2014 (English)
- ↑ Tim Lister: Ship loses more than 500 containers in heavy seas on CNN , February 22, 2014 (English)
- ↑ Equasis homepage (English)
- ↑ grosstonnage homepage (English)
