Acceptance/delivery certificate signed for multipurpose salvage vessel Murman, Project MPSV06 (photo)
Acceptance/delivery certificate has been signed for the multipurpose salvage vessel Murman, Project MPSV06, built by Nordic Yards Wismar GmbH (Germany) to the order of Federal Marine and River Transport Agency (Rosmorrechflot) in the name of the Direction of State Contractor of Marine Transport Development Programme. As IAA PortNews correspondent reports from Wismar, the document was signed onboard the ship moored at the shipyard’s quayside.
The vessel will be operated by the Northern Branch of Rosmorrechflot’s Sea Rescue Service.
The series of two 7 MW ships has been built under the subprogramme ‘Maritime Transport’ of the Federal Targeted Programme ‘Development of Russia’s Transportation System in 2010-2015”.
Multi-purpose MPSV06 salvage ice-breaker vessel has Icebreaker 6 class and unrestricted area of navigation; she has ice-breaker stem and cruiser aft end, enlarged double-tier forecastle and living quarters located fore. There are also a diesel-electric power station with ER located in the middle part of hull, two full-circle rudder propellers and bow thrusters.
Working documentation for the vessel's construction was issued by engineering center of Nordic Yards Wismar GmbH.
Characteristics: LOA – 87.75 m, BOA – 19.10 m, depth – 9.00 m. draught – 6.52 m, full speed – 15 knots, crew – 22 including 2 medics, special personnel – 12, endurance – 30 days, driven by two 3,500 kW Azipods. Class notation of Russian Maritime Register of Shipping - КМ (*) Icebreaker 6 [2] AUT1-ICS OMBO FF2WS DYNPOS-2 EPP Salvage ship.
Multi-purpose MPSV06 salvage vessel should carry out operations as follows:
• patrolling and emergency salvage duty at the navigation regions, fishing regions, oil and gas marine recovery regions;
• give technical support and help in the regions dangerous for navigation and marine products catching, servicing of terminal transport operations;
• search and help operations for vessels;
• search, salvage, evacuation operations for people, rendering medical aid for people;
• taking emergency vessels off groundings and reefs, pumping out vessels' flooded spaces;
• towage of emergency vessels and objects to the place of refuge, also fulfillment marine towage of vessels and floating objects, including ice towages;
• fulfillment of marine salvage operations, including in ice conditions;
• fulfillment of ice-breaker operations in port and near-port areas, also in frozen non-arctic seas when ice thickness is less than 1.5 m;
• give assistance in fire combating on floating objects and coastal ones accessible from seaside;
• rear and technical service, including underwater diving works at the depth till 60 m;
• fire-extinguishing of burning oil on water surface, elimination of marine oil spills, including oils with flashpoint less than 60 degr. C.;
• survey and cleaning underwater hull part of vessels, floating and coastal objects;
• investigation of sea floor and damaged objects at depth of up to 1,000 m.
