RV Maria S. Merian
The Maria S. Merian in Kiel
Germanischer Lloyd
IMO no. 9274197
The Maria S. Merian is a beheimatetes in Rostock research vessel, which is supervised by the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde. The ship was named after the naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian. It ranks in terms of its size to medium-sized research vessels, of which the German research vessel fleet currently has four pieces, and is provided regarding its use primarily as a research vessel. The ship management is done by the Leeraner Briese shipping. In addition to the Polar Star is the only German research vessel that can operate in ice.
Technical data and usage
The ship is just 94.8 meters long, 19.2 meters wide and has a draft of 6.50 to a maximum of 7.00 meters and is measured with GT 5573. The curb weight is 4493 tons. The maximum speed is 15 knots, with life at sea 35 days and the maximum range of 7,500 nautical miles. The ship has been in the base version has a number of laboratories for different subjects, a maximum payload of 150 tons of additional scientific material is possible. The drive system uses two pivoting pod drives and a pump jet that ensure a very good maneuverability and the ability to hold a position by means of DP (dynamic positioning ) exactly. The ship can be operated effluent-free for 48 hours (Clean -ship mode) to protect sensitive habitats. All wastewaters are directed into collection tanks, processed in the biological- mechanical treatment plant board to sterile hot water and then discharged. Through the exclusive operation of the engines on gas oil and the modern fuel injection system, the exhaust gas is almost free of soot. All these and other measures have led to the vessel may carry the Blue Angel, it's in ship operation thus particularly environmentally friendly. The ship is certified as a Polar Class 7 and can thus operate in moderate ice (up to 80 cm).
Machinery
The ship has two independent engine rooms with all the facilities to continue to remain maneuverable in case of failure of a machine system. The drive is diesel-electric by two Schottel POD propulsion systems, each with 1900 kW and a Schottel pump jet with 1,600 kW. The drive current is generated by four MAN diesel generators with two 1500 kW and 1100 kW output twice. As an emergency power generator is a 250 kW diesel generator.
User
Among the user groups of the ship next to the Institute in Warnemünde include a number of other institutions and universities in North Germany, especially the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in Kiel, the GKSS Research Centre in Geesthacht, the Marum - Center for Marine environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen and the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen. It can 23 scientists and 23 crew members are included. On excursions outside the range of sea rescue helicopters drives instead of 23 scientist with a ship's doctor. Equipped is the ship for research in the Arctic, for observations of the Gulf Stream and the oceans with their impact on the climate and soil investigation to 10,000 feet of water depth. Are coordinated by the Travel Meteor / Merian at the Institute for Marine Research (IfM ) at the University of Hamburg.
History
The Maria S. Merian was after 12 - year break, the first newly built research ship in Germany. The cost of approximately € 56.4 million were carried to three-quarters by the federal government. A share of 12.5 percent was acquired by the State of Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, the states of Hamburg, Schleswig -Holstein and Bremen share the remaining 12.5 percent in equal parts. The state of Mecklenburg- Vorpommern is the owner of the ship, sailing under the German flag. The construction of Maria S. Merian was part of a renewal of the German research vessel fleet, as should be provided by the currently existing medium- sized research vessels, two because of their age in the near future out of service. This applies to the 1967-2004 operating and is also headquartered in Warnemünde A. v. Humboldt and in 1976 was put into service and operating from Kiel Poseidon, which will be replaced next to the Valdivia in 1999, decommissioned by the Maria S. Merian.
The ship with the hull number 1566 was built by the Kröger - Shipyard in Schleswig-Holstein Schacht-Audorf and baptized on 26 July 2005 by the Federal Minister Edelgard Bulmahn. Two years earlier, on 11 June 2003, was to also belong to the Kröger - Shipyard Maritime Group Ltd.. in Gdansk (Poland, Polish: Gdansk ) the keel laying. The first test drive, where the ship and its equipment have been tested under operating conditions, led the Maria S. Merian from September 17, 2005 in the Bay of Biscay, the Iberian lake, an area west of the Atlantic coast and in the Gulf of Bothnia. On 9 February 2006, the delivery of the ship to the Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde was. Its home port is so Rostock. In the period from August 2007 to mid- December 2007, the Maria S. Merian was due to a drive damage prematurely in Kiel's east shore harbor. This turned out alone four -month research trips in northern and central Atlantic. After a test drive in February 2008, the Maria S. Merian of Las Palmas in Gran Canaria ran to another very successful trips to the South Atlantic from. The destination port of Walvis Bay, Namibia, although is a bit unusual for a research vessel - but also in the tropics proved the ship its suitability. With Mindelo on the Cape Verde Islands as a stopover for scientists change it was in June in the shipyard to Emden. There, the ship got an additional chamber module on the first superstructure deck - one chamber for the electronics and the system operator. The total number of people traveling exceed 46 has not changed since the free-fall lifeboat no longer accommodate.
The ship was on 28 February 2010 at the port of Limassol by the Ro-Ro ferry Notos the shipping company Salamis Lines Ltd.. rammed. Here, the tail and the free-fall lifeboat was damaged. The damage was repaired in September 2010.