The container ship Svendborg Mærsk was ordered in 1972 by the shipping company AP Möller for the newly founded Mærsk Line. On July 6, 1973, the new building was launched as hull number 2323 at the Japanese IHI shipyard in Aioi. After it was handed over in January 1974, it was initially to be used in the joint Europe-Far East container service operated by Mærsk-Lines and K-Line, but that did not happen. As a single ship, the ship did not initially fit into any of the existing services and instead began her career in the Australia Europe Container Service (AECS) of the shipping consortium Overseas Containers Limited (OCL). It was only with Mærsk's new A-class container ships that they started working together. It ran under its baptismal name until 1979 and was often used to replace ships whose machinery had been converted from turbine to diesel drive, or to bridge docking times for the extension of entire series of existing ships. Later she was chartered out several times and renamed to be used on different lines. After the name Svendborg Mærsk had been given to a new gas tanker of the shipping company in 1980, the ship was reintegrated into the shipping fleet as Dragor Mærsk in 1987 , only to be renamed Brigit Mærsk in the following year . In 1999 the Brigit Mærsk was sold with a return charter to the Greek Danaos shipping company and renamed Brigit . As MSC Halifax , she began her last charter for the Swiss shipping company Mediterranean Shipping Company in January 2000 . There she served in the Europe-South Africa-Australia service until she finally arrived on January 24, 2002 for scrapping in Alang , after unloading her last containers in Jabal Ali on her last trip from Antwerp through the Mediterranean Sea .
technology
The superstructure and machinery were arranged about two thirds aft.
When it was built, the ship was specified with a capacity of 1,806 TEU, later 2,276 TEU and finally 2,442 TEU. However, this was not due to modifications to the ship, but rather to differently calculated stowage of the containers on deck. The propulsion of the ship consisted of two single-acting Sulzer RND 90 twelve-cylinder two-stroke diesel engines that operated on two fixed propellers . With this engine, the Svendborg Mærsk reached 27 knots with a daily consumption of around 230 tons of heavy fuel oil. As a result of the oil crisis , the ship was later converted to a single MAN-B&W L90MC two-stroke diesel engine with 23,700 kW output, which acted on a single propeller. This conversion, which was only carried out in a few ships, required an extensive redesign of the lower aft. After that, the ship reached a speed of 20 knots and consumed 92 tons per day. Three diesel generators provided the lighting and working power .
Almost sister ships
The Svendborg Mærsk was a single newbuilding of the Mærsk Line, but the two ships Kurobe Maru and Kiso Maru were built with the same hull and engine layout for the NYK shipping company . However, the two sister ships of the NYK had different superstructures.
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