MV Blue Marlin

The Blue Marlin transported the destroyer USS Cole ( DDG -67)

63 × 178.2 m ( 11,227 m²)

Four ballast pumps per 3,300 m³ / h

Three diesel generators, each with 4,581 kW, driving two azimuth pods, each with 4,500 kW and 2,000 kW bow thruster with

Det Norske Veritas

IMO no. 9186338

The Blue Marlin is a 224 m long and 63 m wide semi-submersible vessel of the Dutch Dockwise Shipping BV Your sister ship is the Black Marlin, which is only 42 meters wide.

History

The ship was built under the hull number 726 from the China Shipbuilding Corporation in Kaohsiung ( Taiwan) for the Norwegian Offshore Heavy Transport of Oslo. It was established on April 8, keel and ran on 23 December 1999 of the stack. On April 25, 2000, was completed.

The ship was originally built to transport up to 30,000 tons of heavy oil rigs.

On 6 June 2001, the Blue Marlin of Dockwise Shipping BV of the Netherlands bought. At the turn of 2003/ 04 the ship on the Hyundai Mipo shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea has been widened to 63 meters.

Use

The ship flooded his water tanks and sinks so with the deep cargo area under water. The maximum draft of 28.40 m in the submerged state.

The transport object is brought by means of tractor on the truck bed, and the tanks are then pumped out, causing the ship along with the charge on the deck rises again.

Known transports

Became known worldwide, the Blue Marlin by the transport of the destroyer USS Cole U.S., which was badly damaged by a bomb attack in the port of Aden. It transported the ship from October 29 to December 13, 2000 from Anschlagsort to Pascagoula, where it was repaired in his Shipyard Ingalls Shipbuilding of.

In July 2005, the Blue Marlin transported an entire gas liquefaction plant for the gas field Snøhvit (Norway ) by the Spanish Cádiz to Hammerfest over 5000 km. The mission was completed in just eleven days.

Blue Marlin with radar platform in Pearl Harbor on 9 January 2006

The ship with flooded water tanks

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