Vandal (tanker)

Three side elevation of the Vandal

The Vandal was the first diesel motor ship and diesel-electric ship in the world.

The Swedish engineer A. Carls, in the service of Branobel under the direction of Emanuel Nobel - the nephew of Alfred Nobel, a Russian oil magnate - was, taught his employer on the held by Rudolf Diesel Unit " rational heat engine ". Emanuel Nobel, belonging to the large part of oil fields in Baku, was very interested in marketing its oil and he acquired immediately along with his banker Marcus Wallenberg Lawrence in 1898 by Rudolf Diesel, the diesel engine patents for Russia.

Construction

In the years 1902/ 03, a shallow-draft river tankers for the transportation of petroleum products will be built at a shipyard on the Volga. This is equipped with three amidships arranged diesel engines with 120 hp, which drive generators that drive the current through the three electric motors driving propellers.

The Vandal was around 75 meters long and 9.50 meters wide. She had a carrying capacity of 800 tons. The machine room lay in the center of the vessel between the front and rear oil tank. Three diesel engines by the Swedish diesel Motorer Aktiebolaget in Stockholm driven electric generators at ASEA, which provided the power for the electric drive motors in the stern. Means of an electric control system has been provided by the diesel engine and the stern transmitted with electric power cables as fed to the electric motors, that the forward and reverse travel at speeds between 30 and 300 rpm was not possible. 1903 made ​​the Vandal her maiden voyage on the Volga, 1904, the sister ship Sarmatian was put into service and remained until 1923 in operation.

Nobel had it reconstructed during this period for another 60 ships on diesel power.