Engineering:Beluga Fraternity
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 BBC California on the Hudson River in 2015
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| History | |
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| Name |
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| Operator | Beluga Shipping GmbH[2] |
| Port of registry | St. John's,  Antigua and Barbuda[2] |
| Builder | CSC Jiangdong Shipyard, Wuhu, People's Republic of China[2] |
| Yard number | JD12000-8[2] |
| Laid down | 28 April 2007[2] |
| Launched | 18 August 2007[2] |
| Completed | 28 February 2008[2] |
| Identification |
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| Status | In service[1] |
| General characteristics [2] | |
| Type: | General cargo ship |
| Tonnage: | |
| Length: | 138.05 m (452 ft 11 in) |
| Beam: | 21.0 m (68 ft 11 in) |
| Draft: | 8.0 m (26 ft 3 in) |
| Depth: | 11.0 m (36 ft 1 in) |
| Ice class: | GL E3 |
| Installed power: | Caterpillar 6M43C (5,400 kW) |
| Propulsion: |
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| Speed: | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Capacity: | 665 TEU |
BBC California, before 2011 known as Beluga Fraternity and briefly Fraternity, is a German general cargo ship owned by Beluga Shipping. In 2009 she and her sister ship, Beluga Foresight, transited the Northern Sea Route while carrying power plant components from Ulsan, South Korea , to the Russia n port of Vladivostok.[3] The voyage was widely covered and sometimes incorrectly said to be the first time when non-Russian ships make the transit.[4][5][6][7] In 1997, a Finnish oil tanker, Uikku, sailed the length of the Northern Sea Route from Murmansk to the Bering Strait, becoming the first Western ship to complete the voyage.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "BBC California (9402055)". French Ministry for Transport. http://www.equasis.org/EquasisWeb/restricted/ShipInfo?fs=Search&P_IMO=9402055.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 "BBC California (112438)". Germanischer Lloyd. http://vesselregister.dnvgl.com/VesselRegister/vesseldetails.html?vesselid=G112438.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Andrew Revkin (2009-09-04). "Commercial Arctic Passage Nearing Goal". The New York Times. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/04/commercial-arctic-passage-nearing-goal/. Retrieved 2009-09-05.
- ↑ Andrew Revkin (2009-07-28). "Era of Trans-Arctic Shipping Nigh". The New York Times. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/era-of-trans-arctic-shipping-nigh/. Retrieved 2012-04-17.
- ↑ "Derretimiento de los hielos en el Artico abre codiciada ruta marítima". Latercera. 2009-09-15. Archived from the original on 2012-06-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20120617065001/http://www.latercera.com/contenido/678_182097_9.shtml. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
- ↑ "Første skip gjennom Nordøstpassasjen". NRK. 2009-09-12. Archived from the original on 2014-01-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20140107224810/http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/1.6772070. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
- ↑ "Gemilerin rotasını değiştiren gelişme". Sütun. 2010-12-17. http://www.8sutun.com/haberdetay.asp?tarih=17.12.2010&Newsid=50021&Categoryid=11. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
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