MV Yulius Fuchik

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The Yulius Fuchik (Russian Юлиус Фучик, German transcription Julius Fučík - after the Czech author) was a Soviet version of the U.S. SeaBee ship.

Prehistory

In the 1960s, the American naval architect Jerome L. Goldman developed the LASH system and founded to market the patented system, the Lighter Aboard Ship Corporation. Background of the development were the usual very long time its marina mooring times should be shortened with the high handling capacity of the LASH system of over 1000 tons per hour. 1969 and 1970 were the first LASH ships, Acadia Forest and Atlantic Forest, put into service. This was followed by about 20 more units after LASH principle.

The shipping company Lykes Lines from New Orleans followed a slightly different concept of a lighter ship and created together with the shipbuilding office JJ Henry & Company of New York for the draft SeaBee ship. Unlike the LASH ship larger Light are used, which are (a type of lift) lifted in pairs on deck and placed on an internal sliding door system with an elevator. Lykes was 1972/73 to build a three-game series of Seabee ships of MARAD Design C8 -S- 82a.

History

1974 joined the Soviet Union approached by a development order for a barge ship design to the Finish Valmet shipyard. Due to the preliminary Soviet ships should also be militarily usable and transport Lightweight, whose Dimensions aimed to use up in the Rhine -Main -Danube Canal. The so-called Danube -Lake Light, and DM Light were 38.25 meters exactly half as long as the Europe -II or Danube barges. They were 11.40 meters wide and had at a side height of 3.90 meters and a draft of 3.22 meters, a capacity of up to 1070 tons per piece.

Valmet acquired with the knowledge and approval of the U.S. government the necessary licensing rights for the construction of two ships to the SeaBee principle. At the end of 1978 in drive set Yulius Fuchik came in late 1979, the sister ship Tibor Szamuely added. The ships could carry up to 26 of the standard DM- 54 Light or LASH barge as well as additional ro-ro cargo or container. About two lighters were handled per hour.

On May 18, 1978, the USSR countries, Bulgaria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia founded the Community shipping company Inter Lighter in Izmail. Inter Lighter partners were the Hungarian shipping company Mahart well as the respective Soviet and Czechoslovak Danube shipping company. Inter Lighter chartered the two ships in the long term by the Soviet Danube shipping company. The Yulius Fuchik used was from 8 December 1978 at the Danube -Sea -Line service on the route from the Danube Delta to Karachi and Bombay. After also the sister ship Tibor Szamuely was delivered on 2 November 1979 the service was expanded to include ports of call in Vietnam, Kampuchea and Malaysia.

In Europe, the Light brought their charge in the entire Danube region, in some cases up of Regensburg, from. After about 18 -day voyage, the ports of call in Asia were with Ho Chi Minh City on the Mekong Delta as the main port from where the barges went up to Phnom Penh, is reached. Travel to Karachi, Bombay and Penang lasted longer. The tours were originally designed for 33 and 46 days. Long anchor waiting times in Vietnam, in which hauled the barge and the cargo was handled, the duration, however, stretched isolated from up to three months. In the early 1990s, the utilization of the service declined, whereupon hung up both ships. 1998 and in subsequent years the ships were passed several times. In 2003, she finally met for scrapping at Alang and Gadani Beach in.

In popular culture

In the novel In The Storm by Tom Clancy Julius Fucik the ship is used ( as the local spelling) to transport a division of Soviet paratroopers possible undetected to Iceland. The ship is located to one of the Lykes Lines and was previously redesigned accordingly.

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