MV Methane Princess
The Methane Princess as a trailer in the River Fal
The Methane - class were the world's first two ships, which were planned as LNG tankers and rebuilt.
History
After the experience with the converted LNG carrier Methane Pioneer gave British Methane Limited and the Gas Council of the United Kingdom, the Methane Princess and her sister ship Methane Progress, the first complete new buildings for waste destined for LNG transport gas tankers, in order. The ship design was created in collaboration with the New York naval architect office JJ Henry and specialized in natural gas filling systems engineering firm Conch International Methane Limited.
1963/64, built Vickers Armstrong in Barrow-in -Furness, the Methane Princess and Harland & Wolff in Belfast 's sister ship Methane Progress. Both ships were put into service in 1964. The first charge of the service between Arzew in Algeria and LNG gas station on Canvey Iceland was delivered on 12 October 1964 at the Thames. Together, the ships could carry around 60 round trips per year while supply about 700,000 tons of natural gas, representing about one -tenth of the annual natural gas consumption of Great Britain at build time.
The two ships were launched in 1981 on the River Fal. In October 1988 we reactivated the Methane Princess, while her sister ship Methane Progress was scrapped in 1988 in Castellon. In May 1989, they put the Methane Princess on again. They finally met on 9 March 1997 on the termination in the Sachdeva Steel Corporation in Alang one.
Technology
In contrast, when the experiment planned conversion of the motor vessel Methane Pioneer, were built for a commercially viable line bet Methane Princess and Methane Progress with an approximately five times as large as the tank capacity of the Methane Pioneer. The ship design corresponded largely a conventional double hull tanker with aft deckhouse arranged and achterem engine room. The two new buildings had nine per cubic gas tank after the Conch system whose volume was approximately 27,400 m3, making 12,200 tons of cargo could be transported. The tanks made of aluminum alloy were prefabricated inserted into the existing ship structure and rested on the isolation of balsa wood and glass wool. The liquefied gas is removed at a temperature of -258 ° C on board and not cooled. The ships had a steam turbine drive, the Foster -Wheeler boilers, the boil-off gas from the charge used to generate steam.