Tampa (ship)
 The Tampa
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The ConRo ship Tampa was the type ship of a series of three built by Hyundai Heavy Industries for the Norwegian shipping company Wilh. Wilhelmsen . The Tampa was followed by the sister ships Texas and Taiko .
The Tampa became famous in August 2001 after the ship, under the leadership of its captain Arne Rinnan, picked up 438 shipwrecked Afghans from an overloaded fishing boat. The result was the Tampa affair , a diplomatic dispute over the whereabouts of the refugees between the governments of Australia, Norway and Indonesia.
In August 2013, the Tampa in China was scrapped.
technical description
Loading facilities
The Tampa was set up for the transport of motor vehicles; rolling project cargoes and heavy goods could also be loaded on individual decks. A 12.5 meter wide 420-ton stern ramp on the starboard side served as access to the ship. The ship also had a JSW Hägglund crane (G4030 / 3632) with a lifting capacity of 40 tons on the forecastle. The fan system enabled air to be changed 20 to 30 times per hour depending on the deck.
machinery
The ship was powered by a MAN B&W diesel engine (type: 8 L90GB) with an output of 26950 kW at 94 revolutions per minute and a four- bladed fixed propeller with a diameter of 7.8 meters. The machinery could be monitored from the bridge . Docking and casting off maneuvers were supported by two Kamewa bow thrusters of the type 2800B / AS-CP with 1910 kW output. The electrical supply was ensured by three Daihatsu diesel generators (type: 8DS32) with 2060 kW and two Daihatsu diesel generators with 970 kW. A Daihatsu emergency generator with an output of 260 kW was also available.
Accommodation
The living area was set up on decks five through eight. In addition to the trade fairs, the team had access to a TV room, library, conference room, sports room and a small outdoor swimming pool .
Afghan castaways in 2001
The Tampa was on her way from Freemantle, Australia to Singapore on August 26, 2001, when she received a message from the Australian Sea Rescue that a ship was in distress in international waters between Indonesia and Christmas Island, Australia. The Tampa found the vehicle, which turned out to be an overcrowded 20-meter wooden boat with 438 people, mostly Hazaras from Afghanistan. Captain Arne F. Rinnan took the people aboard the Tampa . After a group of five refugees aggressively demanded a change of course in the direction of Australia, the captain set course for Australian Christmas Island . The Australian authorities then refused the Norwegian ship entry into their territorial waters. A request from the captain to provide the passengers with medication and emergency aid was also rejected by the Australian authorities. On August 29th, the Tampa sent out an international distress signal.
An Australian anti-terrorist unit boarded the Tampa near Christmas Island , took control of the ship and prevented the refugees from going ashore. Captain Rinnan refused to sail again into international waters while the refugees were on board. In the days that followed, a dispute ensued between the shipping company and the Norwegian government on the one hand and the Australian government on the other, which met with worldwide media coverage and was accompanied by a series of protests by various human rights organizations against Australia's stance.
On September 1, 2001, some of the refugees were taken in by the small Pacific island of Nauru to process their asylum applications , with financial support from Australia. 130 refugees received refugee status from New Zealand.
On June 20, 2002, Captain Rinnan, the crew of the Tampa and the shipping company Wilh. Wilhelmsen in Oslo for her special contribution to the observance of the international agreements for the rescue of people in distress at sea and for her moral courage the Nansen Refugee Prize from the then UN Refugee Commissioner , Ruud Lubbers . Rinnan was awarded the highest Norwegian civil order for his behavior .
literature
- The island of the terrorists . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 2001 ( online ).
- Mary Elizabeth Crock: In the Wake of the Tampa: Conflicting Visions of International Refugee Law in the Management of Refugee Flows . Pacific Rim Journal of Law and Policy, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 49-95, 2003.
- Peter Mares: Borderline: Australia's Response to Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Wake of the Tampa . UNSW Press 2002, ISBN 0-86840-789-5 .
- David Marr, Maria Wilkinson: Dark Victory - How a government lied its way to political triumph . Allen & Unwin, 2004, ISBN 1-74114-447-7 .
Web links
- Data page ( memento of February 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) of the shipping company (English)
- Jessica E. Taumann: Rescued At Sea, But Nowhere To Go: The Cloudy Legal Waters of the Tampa Crisis . (PDF). Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal Association, 2002.
- Press release ( Memento of September 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Refugee Council of Australia and Norwegian Refugee Council, August 30, 2001 (English)
- Hartmut von Brevern, M. Bopp: Sea rescue of refugees. (PDF). In: Journal for Foreign Public Law and International Law. 2002, p. 841 ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ All Australia can offer is guano island. In: The Guardien. September 2, 2001. (theguardian.com)