New Norwegian Coast Guard vessel designed and equipped by Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royce has provided the design and major equipment for a new Norwegian Coastguard multi-role vessel, named Harstad, built by Aker's Søviknes yard in west Norway based on steelwork from Aker Tulcea in Romania. The ship is owned by Remøy Shipping, whowill operate it on long term charter to Kystvakten.
Harstad will undertake a variety of coastguard and Exclusive Economic Zone management roles. These include offshore standby and rescue, firefighting, salvage, and general law enforcement operations and fishery control.
One important duty will be pollution prevention. There is concern over the rapidly increasing oil tanker traffic from Russian ports along the coastline of northern Norway, with the risk of a disabled vessel grounding and causing an oil spill.
Harstad is therefore fitted for emergency towing of tankers up to about 200,000dwt and spill clean-up.
The vessel will be manned, as are other Norwegian coastguard vessels, by a combined military and civilian crew.
A new Rolls-Royce design, the 83m long UT512, was developed to meet the challenging requirements. A bollard pull of about 110 tonnes is combined with a speed of about 18.5 knots to enable the vessel to reach the scene of an incident quickly and then tow a stricken vessel to safety
Rolls-Royce has provided the design and major equipment for a new Norwegian Coastguard multi-role vessel, named Harstad, built by Aker's Søviknes yard in west Norway based on steelwork from Aker Tulcea in Romania. The ship is owned by Remøy Shipping, whowill operate it on long term charter to Kystvakten.
Harstad will undertake a variety of coastguard and Exclusive Economic Zone management roles. These include offshore standby and rescue, firefighting, salvage, and general law enforcement operations and fishery control.
One important duty will be pollution prevention. There is concern over the rapidly increasing oil tanker traffic from Russian ports along the coastline of northern Norway, with the risk of a disabled vessel grounding and causing an oil spill.
Harstad is therefore fitted for emergency towing of tankers up to about 200,000dwt and spill clean-up.
The vessel will be manned, as are other Norwegian coastguard vessels, by a combined military and civilian crew.
A new Rolls-Royce design, the 83m long UT512, was developed to meet the challenging requirements. A bollard pull of about 110 tonnes is combined with a speed of about 18.5 knots to enable the vessel to reach the scene of an incident quickly and then tow a stricken vessel to safety
So Norway Has the above, Spain recently took delivery of a similar UT 722 L type,The UK has at least two dedicated ETVs at either end of the country at all times,France too,has Taken delivery of a similar type.
Abeille Bourbon (http://www.morglaz.org)
The only gap on the western seaboard of Europe is Ourselves. There has been no move on this vessel,even though there has been an urgent requirement for many years,and the DOMNR has "identified" a requirement.(well done).
Meanwhile,the wind blows,the seas get rough,and ships get stuck on rocks off our jagged coast,and we watch while others do the salvage,and if they get there on time,the pollution control.
The cost of these vessels is balanced by the damage to the marine industry,tourism,and environment that they have the potential to prevent.
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