TT 240

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HDW TT 240
Faust and Westphalia at the shipyard's equipment quay (1974)
Faust and Westphalia at the shipyard's equipment quay (1974)
Ship data
Ship type Crude oil tanker
Shipyard Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft, Kiel
Construction period 1971 to 1976
Units built 11 + 4
Cruising areas Worldwide trip
Ship dimensions and crew
length
325.00 m ( Lüa )
310.00 m ( Lpp )
width 49.00 m
Side height 26.85 m
Draft Max. 20.64 m
measurement approx. 110,000 (120,000) GRT
Machine system
machine 1 × geared steam turbine
Machine
performanceTemplate: Infobox ship / maintenance / service format 		32,000 PS (23,536 kW)
Top
speed 		16.5 kn (31 km / h)
propeller 1 × fixed propeller
Transport capacities
Load capacity 240,300 dwt
Others
Classifications Germanic Lloyd
annotation
Data

Faust (in brackets partly in the case of subsequent buildings)

The TT 240 was a VLCC ship type produced by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in Kiel. The TT-240 units were the largest ships ever built in Kiel.

history

The name TT 240 stands for turbine tankers with a load capacity of 240,000 tons. The series was designed by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in the early 1970s and ordered in twelve units by German and foreign shipping companies. The eleven units built from 1973 to 1976 include the two predecessors Libra and Sagitta , which formed the basic design with the same dimensions of the type, and the two ore-oil ships Havkong and Falkefjell, which were also developed from them . The construction price for the ships Faust and Egmond was 130 million DM, later units cost 125 million DM and were in part with federal funds from the tanker aid program adopted at the beginning of 1973 to secure the German crude oil supply at 15% each (around 17.5 million Mark) subsidized. In the course of the tanker crisis, several of the TT 240 units were launched , some, such as the Westfalen or the Wilhelmine Essberger , were not even set in motion, but moved directly from the shipyard to a berth.

The ship type was to be replaced by a ULCC series with a deadweight of 480,000 tons, for which at least four firm orders had been placed, but which were no longer built due to the oil crisis .

The poor economy in tanker shipping in the late 1970s and 1980s due to the reopening of the Suez Canal and the large tonnage overcapacity resulted in a large proportion of the TT-240 units being scrapped again in the mid-1980s. The lead ship of the series sank after an explosion in the tanks that occurred while the tank was being washed, a second ship was completely lost in an explosion and another was so badly damaged by rocket fire during the Iran-Iraq war that it was later canceled. The units that survived longer were partially converted into floating oil stores. The longest-running vehicle in the series, the Ailsa Craig remained in service for around 38 years. The former Egmond was only driven onto the beach for demolition at Gadani Beach in early September 2012 .

description

The ships are designed as pure crude oil tankers in single-hull construction. The deckhouse was arranged far aft above the engine room, the upwardly tapering chimney stood separately from it on its own deck structure behind the deckhouse. The tankers have five medium tanks and ten or twelve side tanks for the cargo, plus one or two slop tanks and two side tanks for ballast water. The manifold with two booms was placed amidships. The load capacity was around 240,000 tons, the cargo tank volume around 281,000 cubic meters. Four steam-driven main oil pumps, each with a capacity of 3500 cubic meters per hour, and a residual pump were available for cargo handling. According to the wishes of the client, some adjustments were made within the series.

A steam turbine of the type AEG AKS 30-1.9V or Kawasaki served as drive systems , which gave their output (depending on the type 32,000 or 30,000 hp) to a single fixed propeller via a De Schelde gearbox.

The ships (selection)

HDW TT 240
Building name Build number IMO number delivery Client Whereabouts
Libra 13 7041467 1971 Illy Tankers, Monrovia Kiku Maru , Eastern Eagle , Cordoba , Libra , Albahaa B , on April 3, 1980 off the East African coast on a ballast voyage from Durban to Quoin Island after an explosion in the hold about 200 nautical miles from Dar-es-Salaam in position 07.00 ° S ; 045.00 ° E decreased (six dead)
Sagitta 20th 7110880 1971 Shai Tankers, Monrovia 1981 Pilio , scrapped in 1985
Havkong 46 7304936 1973 A / S Havtor
P. Meyer, Oslo		 1976 World Recovery , scrapped in Gadani Beach on March 27, 1994
fist 55 7305588 1973 Gelsenberg AG, Essen Puma , arrived in Kaohsiung on September 24, 1983 for demolition
Falkefjell 56 7329041 1973 Olsen & Ugelstad, Oslo Launched in 1976, Konkar Dinos in 1976, Konkar Alpin in 1990 , delivered to Gadani Beach for scrapping on July 18, 1996
Egmond 58 7349950 February 1974 Gelsenberg Scheepvaart Maatschappij, Monrovia
Veba Poseidon Schifffahrt, Hamburg		 1982 Good News , 1991 conversion to FSO Ailsa Craig , demolition from September 2012 at Hyder Shipbreaking Plot, Gadani Beach
Minerva 59 7349962 1974 UK tanker shipping company, Hamburg 1982 St. Benedict , 1983 Pogeez , 1984 Katarina Sea , 1984 Caribbean Breeze , 1985 Umm Al Qurah , 1986 Alvand , scrapped from April 1995
Victoria 60 7349974 July 19, 1974 UK tanker shipping company, Hamburg 1983 Virginia , scrapped in 1985
Westphalia 63 7361829 September 1974 VEBA-Chemie, Hamburg Launched after completion, started up as a Jaguar in 1983 , scrapped in 1984
Sanko Crest 72 7361843 1975 Crest Maritime Corp., Monrovia
Sanko Line , Tokyo		 1985 Crest , scrapped in 1985
Sanko Stresa 73 7361855 1975 Stresa Shipping Corp., Monrovia
Sanko Line, Tokyo		 1985 Stresa , 1990 Ambra Stresa , 1993 Stresa , scrapped in 1998
Wilhelmine Essberger 75 7361879 June 1975 Shipping company Schifffahrtsgesellschaft Mediterranean, Hamburg
John T. Essberger , Hamburg		 Washington Enterprise , Western Enterprise , Riannon
Schleswig-Holstein 77 7361893 2nd February 1976 Trave Schifffahrts-Gesellschaft, Lübeck
Egon Oldendorff , Lübeck		 Launched in Dubai in 1981, back in service as Energy Renown in 1983 , New Renown in 1991 , as FSO in 1993, total loss after the explosion on June 19, 2001
Lower Saxony 78 7361908 1976 Trave Schifffahrts-Gesellschaft, Lübeck
Egon Oldendorff, Lübeck		 1983 Ninemia , shot at by Iraqi Exocet rocket south of Charg on December 15, 1984 (one dead) and towed to position 27 ° 29,30'N the following day; 050 ° 35.30'E fired again, total loss, 1985 Mia , arrived at Shyeh Sheng Huat Steel in Kaoshiung for scrapping on March 22, 1985
Havdrott 85 7361946 August 1976 A / S Havdrott
P. Meyer, Oslo		 1985 promoter , 1986 at Sembawang, Singapore converted to FSO Citra Ayu , demolition from October 2004 in China
Data: Equasis, large tonnage

literature

  • Brennecke, Jochen: Tanker - From the petroleum clipper to the super tanker . Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1975, ISBN 3-7822-0066-7 , p. 233/234 .
  • Stewart, IG: The World's Super Ships . 1965-1980. IGS Marine Publishers, Perth 1980.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Risse im Tank , Der Spiegel No. 24/1975 of June 9, 1975.
  2. ↑ Horst-Wolfgang Bremke :: From launching to the last journey , Die Zeit from June 27, 1975.
  3. ↑ The Albahaa B at wrecksite (English)
  4. ↑ The Albahaa B at Center for Tankship Excellence (English)
  5. ↑ Entry by Auke Visser (English).
  6. ↑ Entry by Auke Visser (English).
  7. ↑ Entry by Auke Visser (English).
  8. ↑ Entry by Auke Visser (English).
  9. ↑ Entry by Auke Visser (English).
  10. ↑ Entry by Auke Visser (English).
  11. ↑ Entry by Auke Visser (English).
  12. ↑ Entry by Auke Visser (English).
  13. ↑ Entry by Auke Visser (English).
  14. ↑ Entry by Auke Visser (English).
  15. ↑ Entry by Auke Visser (English).
  16. ↑ Entry by Auke Visser (English).
  17. ↑ Equasis homepage (English)
  18. ↑ grosstonnage homepage (English)

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