RV Falkor
Cayman Islands Cayman Islands
Georgetown
ZCYL5
Germanischer Lloyd
IMO no. 7928677
The Sea Hawk is a former fishery protection vessel of the Federal Republic of Germany. Owner was the Federal Research Centre for Fisheries, was bereedert the ship of the Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food.
History
The " Sea Hawk " was built in 1980/81 under the hull number 760 on the Lübeck shipyard O & K Orenstein & Koppel AG. The keel-laying ceremony took place on 15 September, instead of launching on 22 December 1980. The completion of the ship on September 8, 1981.
The ship is ( Type: MWM TBD 510-8 ) of two eight-cylinder four -stroke diesel engines manufacturer Motoren-Werke Mannheim AG powered. The engines with a capacity of 2941 kilowatts act via transmission on two controllable pitch propellers. The ship leads to a velocity of up to 20 knots. As an auxiliary diesel are two engines with a power output of 560 kW are available ( Type: MWM TBD 602 12). In addition, the ship is equipped with a bow thruster and has ice class E2.
The field of application of the Fisheries Protection boat were the North and Baltic Sea and the northern Atlantic Ocean. The main task was to support the fisheries and in particular technical and medical matters. In the 1980s, the focus shifted to the task of monitoring the fishery. The ship, which for 'Coordination composite Coast Guard " belonged since 1994, has been used since 1998 exclusively for fisheries inspection. The main task was now monitoring the fishery in relation to compliance measures for the conservation of fish stocks and the compliance of fishing bans and the reduction of certain fishing methods and the processing of the catch.
The ship was placed in the 4 November 2008 out of service and replaced by a new building of the same name. The sale of the VEBEG, which had sold the ship for 1.9 million euros on a Canadian fishing companies, failed in October 2008 due to the collapse of an Icelandic bank due to the financial crisis. The ship was then beginning again in 2009 advertised for sale and sold in March for about 2 million euros to the U.S. Foundation Marine Science & Technology Foundation.
Whereabouts
The new owner of the ship had it rebuilt by Peters Shipbuilding in Wewelsfleth a multifunctional research vessel. The nearly three -year renovation was completed in March 2012. The baptism in the name of " Falkor " took place on 6 March, the surrender on April 12. The ship is used by the Schmidt Ocean Institute.
The ship was called with several laboratories, including wet and dry labs, as well as a control room for a Remotely Operated Vehicle, cables led underwater vehicles equipped. The helicopter landing deck was rebuilt and installed a hinged rear gallows at the stern of the ship. In addition, the ship has various sounder and sonar systems. In particular, by installing a sonar pod has the ship after reconstruction than 5.8 m depth.
The use of the radius of the vessel, which is equipped with dynamic positioning, and stabilizers, is given at a speed of 12 knots to 8000 miles, the service life of 28 days.
On board there is room for a total of 18 crew members in 11 cabins (including the owner's cabin ) and up to 22 scientists in 10 cabins.