HANNE KNUTSEN
Hanne Knutsen photographed at Fawley on 4 April 2015.
GT = 72,245 DWT = 123,581 & NT = 38,043
Her main engines are two MAN B&W 7S50MC 2 stroke 6 cylinder diesel engines (20,008 kW, 27,200 bhp) which via two controllable pitch propellers gives her a top speed of 15.5 knots
She was completed in 2000 by AESA - Astilleros La Naval S.R.L.
ES as Yard Number 318 and overall she is 264.68m long with a 42.55m extreme breadth and a maximum draught of 15.76m. Her keel was laid on 18 March 1999, she was launched on 21 March 2000 and completed on 12 September 2000.
In total she has 18 tanks with a total liquid cargo capacity of 131,336 m³.
Crew is 22.
She is managed by KNOT - Knutsen Oas Managagement AS and owned by KNOT FSO 1 AS.
She has had a number of previous owners.
2000 - 2006 Knutsen OAS Shipping AS
2006 - 2009 Bluewater (New Hull) B.V
2009 - 2013 Knutsen Bøyelaster IX KS
GT = 72,245 DWT = 123,581 & NT = 38,043
Her main engines are two MAN B&W 7S50MC 2 stroke 6 cylinder diesel engines (20,008 kW, 27,200 bhp) which via two controllable pitch propellers gives her a top speed of 15.5 knots
She was completed in 2000 by AESA - Astilleros La Naval S.R.L.
ES as Yard Number 318 and overall she is 264.68m long with a 42.55m extreme breadth and a maximum draught of 15.76m. Her keel was laid on 18 March 1999, she was launched on 21 March 2000 and completed on 12 September 2000.
In total she has 18 tanks with a total liquid cargo capacity of 131,336 m³.
Crew is 22.
She is managed by KNOT - Knutsen Oas Managagement AS and owned by KNOT FSO 1 AS.
She has had a number of previous owners.
2000 - 2006 Knutsen OAS Shipping AS
2006 - 2009 Bluewater (New Hull) B.V
2009 - 2013 Knutsen Bøyelaster IX KS
Lined up at Fawley In the company of Frank, Philipp Essberger and Houyoshi Express II.
Hanne emerging from the early morning mist and passing me at the end of the esplanade in East Cowes a few days after I photographed her at Fawley.
MMSI - 235598000
REG - UK, Aberdeen
IMO - 9190638
Call Sign - VQEUS
Crude Oil Tanker
Built AESA, Sestao, ES
Yard Number - 318
L =265m x 40m
GT - 72245
Year - 2000
Fawley, 4 April 2015
MMSI - 235598000
REG - UK, Aberdeen
IMO - 9190638
Call Sign - VQEUS
Crude Oil Tanker
Built AESA, Sestao, ES
Yard Number - 318
L =265m x 40m
GT - 72245
Year - 2000
Fawley, 4 April 2015
AMAZON VIRTUE
Crude Oil Tanker Amazon Virtue photographed as we passed Fawley on 25 October 2014.
Built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in Kunsan, KR in 2014 as Yard Number 2602 she is 228.55m long with 40m beam and 12.112m draught.
GT = 44,776, NT = 21,065 and Summer Deadweight 72,412.
She is powered by a B&W / Hyundai 5G60ME-C Diesel Engine.
Tank capacity is 85,325m3 @ 98 %.
She is operated by Sun Enterprises which was established in Piraeus in 1968 but with roots dating back to 1902 when the steam ship SS Theofano was acquired. The company served as a consolidated operating company for a fleet of bulk carriers and tankers.
MMSI - 241293000
REG - GR, Chios
IMO - 9660360
Call Sign - SVBW8
Crude Oil Tanker
Built - Hyundai, Kunsan, KR
Yard No.2602
L 228.55m x W 40m
GT -44776
Year - 2014
Fawley, 25 October 2014
Built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in Kunsan, KR in 2014 as Yard Number 2602 she is 228.55m long with 40m beam and 12.112m draught.
GT = 44,776, NT = 21,065 and Summer Deadweight 72,412.
She is powered by a B&W / Hyundai 5G60ME-C Diesel Engine.
Tank capacity is 85,325m3 @ 98 %.
She is operated by Sun Enterprises which was established in Piraeus in 1968 but with roots dating back to 1902 when the steam ship SS Theofano was acquired. The company served as a consolidated operating company for a fleet of bulk carriers and tankers.
MMSI - 241293000
REG - GR, Chios
IMO - 9660360
Call Sign - SVBW8
Crude Oil Tanker
Built - Hyundai, Kunsan, KR
Yard No.2602
L 228.55m x W 40m
GT -44776
Year - 2014
Fawley, 25 October 2014
hilda knutsen
Crude Oil Tanker Hilda Knutsen photographed being assisted to her berth at Tranmere on 20 March 2014.
Built by Hyundai at Ulsan in South Korea in 2013 as Yard Number 2531 she is 275.7m long with a 46m beam and 15.5m draught.
GT = 80850 & DWT 122842
Her main engines consist of two MAN 6S50ME-C8 (2 x 13545bhp/2 x 9960kW) giving a top speed of 13.5 Knots and four Hyundai Himsen 8H32/40 Auxiliary engines.
Hold capacity = 137,517m3
She is operated KNOT Management and owned by Knutsen OAS Shipping AS, the Company dates back to 1896 when
Knut Knutsen established a shipping company in Haugesund, Norway.
MMSI - 235102561
REG - UK, Aberdeen
IMO -9628300
Call Sign - 2HCU5
Crude Oil Tanker
Built - Hyundai, Ulsan, KR
Yard No. - 2531
L 275.7m W 46m
G T 80850
Year - 2013
Liverpool, 20 March 2014
Built by Hyundai at Ulsan in South Korea in 2013 as Yard Number 2531 she is 275.7m long with a 46m beam and 15.5m draught.
GT = 80850 & DWT 122842
Her main engines consist of two MAN 6S50ME-C8 (2 x 13545bhp/2 x 9960kW) giving a top speed of 13.5 Knots and four Hyundai Himsen 8H32/40 Auxiliary engines.
Hold capacity = 137,517m3
She is operated KNOT Management and owned by Knutsen OAS Shipping AS, the Company dates back to 1896 when
Knut Knutsen established a shipping company in Haugesund, Norway.
MMSI - 235102561
REG - UK, Aberdeen
IMO -9628300
Call Sign - 2HCU5
Crude Oil Tanker
Built - Hyundai, Ulsan, KR
Yard No. - 2531
L 275.7m W 46m
G T 80850
Year - 2013
Liverpool, 20 March 2014
HERMIONE
Photograph taken on 31 May 2012 of the Crude Oil Tanker Hermione berthed against the sea wall in the Port of Livorno.
I took this photograph as we were heading out of port en-route to Civitavecchia.
Surprisingly she was only one of three Crude Oil Tankers I saw on my two week cruise around the Mediterranean, the other two were both anchored off shore at Barcelona and I only saw these as we were sailing into port on the very last day of my holiday.
She was built in China in 2008 by New Century Shipbuilding, Jingjiang as Yard Number 307331 and
is 232m long with a 32m beam and 13.2m draught.
In total she has six tanks (81,320m3 @98%) with a single slop tank (2,027m3). Powered by a Hyundai MAN B&W 5560 MC-C (11,300 kW) engine the vessel has a service speed of 15 Knots.
DWT = 73,981 & NT 22,444
The vessel is noted as being managed by Searrland Management Services Singapore.
MMSI -636091469
REG - LR, Monrovia
IMO - 9307944
Call Sign - A8OF4
Crude Oil Tanker
Built - New Century SB Co,
Jingjiang, CN
Yard No. - 307331
L 232m W 32m
GT 42010
Year - 2008
Livorno, 31 May 2012
I took this photograph as we were heading out of port en-route to Civitavecchia.
Surprisingly she was only one of three Crude Oil Tankers I saw on my two week cruise around the Mediterranean, the other two were both anchored off shore at Barcelona and I only saw these as we were sailing into port on the very last day of my holiday.
She was built in China in 2008 by New Century Shipbuilding, Jingjiang as Yard Number 307331 and
is 232m long with a 32m beam and 13.2m draught.
In total she has six tanks (81,320m3 @98%) with a single slop tank (2,027m3). Powered by a Hyundai MAN B&W 5560 MC-C (11,300 kW) engine the vessel has a service speed of 15 Knots.
DWT = 73,981 & NT 22,444
The vessel is noted as being managed by Searrland Management Services Singapore.
MMSI -636091469
REG - LR, Monrovia
IMO - 9307944
Call Sign - A8OF4
Crude Oil Tanker
Built - New Century SB Co,
Jingjiang, CN
Yard No. - 307331
L 232m W 32m
GT 42010
Year - 2008
Livorno, 31 May 2012
Bodil KNutsen
Isle of Man (Douglas) registered Crude Oil Tanker Bodil Knutsen (IMO 9472529) at Tranmere on 8 February 2013. She has a GT of 93147 making her one of the larger visitors to Tranmere and is 285m, long 50m wide with a draft of 9.2m.
She was built by Dewoo SB & ME Corporation, Okpo, KR as Yard No 5316 in 2011.
Operated by KNOT offshore a limited partnership formed to own, operate and acquire shuttle tankers under long-term charters of five years or more she is part of an initial fleet of four shuttle tankers contributed by Knutsen Offshore Tankers AS and Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) a Japanese company with a fleet of approximately 800 vessels,
including bulk carriers, container ships, tankers and other specialized vessels.
Bodil Knutsen operates under long-term charters with major oil and gas companies engaged in offshore production such as BG Group, Statoil and Transpetro.
As a shuttle tanker she specialises in the transport of crude oil and condensates from offshore oil field installations to onshore terminals and refineries and is equipped with sophisticated loading systems and dynamic positioning systems that allow the vessels to load cargo safely and reliably from oil field installations even in harsh weather conditions. She is based on a design developed in the North Sea in the 1970's as an alternative to pipelines.
Main propulsion consists of a MAN B&W engine (21,770kW) with five auxillary MAN B&W engines, three rated at 4,500kW with the remaining two at 2,310kW enabling her to make 15.7 knots.
Picture taken 8 February 2013
MMSI - 235087214
REG - UK, Isle Of Man, Douglas
IMO - 9472529
Call Sign - 2EPZ5
Crude Oil Tanker
Built - Dewoo SB & ME Corp. Okpo, KR
Yard No. - 5316
L 285m W 50m
GT 93147
Year - 2011
Liverpool, 8 February 2013
She was built by Dewoo SB & ME Corporation, Okpo, KR as Yard No 5316 in 2011.
Operated by KNOT offshore a limited partnership formed to own, operate and acquire shuttle tankers under long-term charters of five years or more she is part of an initial fleet of four shuttle tankers contributed by Knutsen Offshore Tankers AS and Nippon Yusen Kaisha (NYK) a Japanese company with a fleet of approximately 800 vessels,
including bulk carriers, container ships, tankers and other specialized vessels.
Bodil Knutsen operates under long-term charters with major oil and gas companies engaged in offshore production such as BG Group, Statoil and Transpetro.
As a shuttle tanker she specialises in the transport of crude oil and condensates from offshore oil field installations to onshore terminals and refineries and is equipped with sophisticated loading systems and dynamic positioning systems that allow the vessels to load cargo safely and reliably from oil field installations even in harsh weather conditions. She is based on a design developed in the North Sea in the 1970's as an alternative to pipelines.
Main propulsion consists of a MAN B&W engine (21,770kW) with five auxillary MAN B&W engines, three rated at 4,500kW with the remaining two at 2,310kW enabling her to make 15.7 knots.
Picture taken 8 February 2013
MMSI - 235087214
REG - UK, Isle Of Man, Douglas
IMO - 9472529
Call Sign - 2EPZ5
Crude Oil Tanker
Built - Dewoo SB & ME Corp. Okpo, KR
Yard No. - 5316
L 285m W 50m
GT 93147
Year - 2011
Liverpool, 8 February 2013
AEGEAN POWER
Aframax Crude Oil Tanker Aegean Power leaving Tranmere on 24 July 2013.
She was built by Samsung in Koje, KR in 2007 as Yard Number 1609 and is 248.96m long with a 43.8m beam.
GT = 61473, NT = 35396 and DWT = 115.753.7
She has 12 tanks and 2 slop tanks with capacities of 123,581m3 (98%) and 3,865m3 (95%) respectively.
Her main engine consists of a B&W 6S60 MC-C (16,580bhp at 101.4 rpm) diesel engine.
She was built by Samsung in Koje, KR in 2007 as Yard Number 1609 and is 248.96m long with a 43.8m beam.
GT = 61473, NT = 35396 and DWT = 115.753.7
She has 12 tanks and 2 slop tanks with capacities of 123,581m3 (98%) and 3,865m3 (95%) respectively.
Her main engine consists of a B&W 6S60 MC-C (16,580bhp at 101.4 rpm) diesel engine.
Owned by Worldbridge Shipping Inc. the vessel is operated by the Arcadia Ship Management Co Ltd which was founded in 1998.
She is one of 4 Suemax and 10 Aframax tankers in their fleet all of which were built in South Korean yards.
MMSI - 240594000
REG - GR, Athens
IMO - 9660360
Call Sign - SXQH
Crude Oil Tanker
Built - Samsung, Koje, KR
Yard No. 1609
L 248.96m x W 43.8m
GT - 61473
Year - 2007
Liverpool, 24 July 2013
She is one of 4 Suemax and 10 Aframax tankers in their fleet all of which were built in South Korean yards.
MMSI - 240594000
REG - GR, Athens
IMO - 9660360
Call Sign - SXQH
Crude Oil Tanker
Built - Samsung, Koje, KR
Yard No. 1609
L 248.96m x W 43.8m
GT - 61473
Year - 2007
Liverpool, 24 July 2013
MINERVA ROXANNE
Aframax
Crude Oil Tanker Minerva Roxanne photographed in Liverpool on 29 July 2013, I
was lucky enough to be walking alongside the river when she passed with
assistance from local tugs on her way to Tranmere further up the river.
She was built in Koje, South Korea in 2004 by Samsung as Yard Number 1453 and is 243.56m long with a 42m breadth and 14.77m draught.
GT = 58,156 and NT = 31,033.
Tank capacity is 113,317m3 (at 98%) with a 4,395 ( at 98%) slop tanks.
She is powered by a HSD MAN B&W (19460 BHP) Diesel Engine, the vessel is also equipped with a 15t crane and three centrifugal cargo pumps with a capacity of 2800m3/hour per pump.
She is operated by Minerva Marine Inc who operate a fleet of product tankers, crude oil tankers and bulk carriers, they were founded in 1996 and are based in Athens.
MMSI - 240198000.
REG - GR, Athens
IMO - 9276585
Call Sign - SWSZ
Crude Oil Tanker
Built - Samsung, Koje, KR
Yard No. - 1453
L 243.56m W 42m
GT -58156
Year - 2004
Liverpool, 29 July 2013
She was built in Koje, South Korea in 2004 by Samsung as Yard Number 1453 and is 243.56m long with a 42m breadth and 14.77m draught.
GT = 58,156 and NT = 31,033.
Tank capacity is 113,317m3 (at 98%) with a 4,395 ( at 98%) slop tanks.
She is powered by a HSD MAN B&W (19460 BHP) Diesel Engine, the vessel is also equipped with a 15t crane and three centrifugal cargo pumps with a capacity of 2800m3/hour per pump.
She is operated by Minerva Marine Inc who operate a fleet of product tankers, crude oil tankers and bulk carriers, they were founded in 1996 and are based in Athens.
MMSI - 240198000.
REG - GR, Athens
IMO - 9276585
Call Sign - SWSZ
Crude Oil Tanker
Built - Samsung, Koje, KR
Yard No. - 1453
L 243.56m W 42m
GT -58156
Year - 2004
Liverpool, 29 July 2013
EAGLE SAPPORO
Crude Oil Tanker Eagle Sapporo photographed at Tranmere on 9 May 2013.
She was built by Mitsui at Chiba in Japan as Yard Number 1696 in 2008 and is 246m long with a 42m beam, the vessel is the 11th Aframax tanker in the series from this yard with a cargo tank capacity of 128,000m3 and a deadweight of 110,400tons.
The vessel was completed and handed over to Maybaru Shipping & Trading Pte Ltd, Singapore on 10 December 2008.
Equipped with a B&W 7S60MC (14478kW) she has a top speed of 14.5 knots.
The vessel is one of 13 Aframax Tankers in a fleet of approximately 87 different vessels operated by MISC. MISC were incorporated in 1968 as a venture between the Malaysian Government and a group of private entrepreneurs.
MMSI - 351115000
REG - PA, Panama
IMO - 9387255
Call Sign - 3FG07
Crude Oil Tanker
Built - Mitsui, Chiba, JP
Yard No. - 1696
L 246m W 42m
GT -59671
Year - 2008
Liverpool, 9 May 2013
She was built by Mitsui at Chiba in Japan as Yard Number 1696 in 2008 and is 246m long with a 42m beam, the vessel is the 11th Aframax tanker in the series from this yard with a cargo tank capacity of 128,000m3 and a deadweight of 110,400tons.
The vessel was completed and handed over to Maybaru Shipping & Trading Pte Ltd, Singapore on 10 December 2008.
Equipped with a B&W 7S60MC (14478kW) she has a top speed of 14.5 knots.
The vessel is one of 13 Aframax Tankers in a fleet of approximately 87 different vessels operated by MISC. MISC were incorporated in 1968 as a venture between the Malaysian Government and a group of private entrepreneurs.
MMSI - 351115000
REG - PA, Panama
IMO - 9387255
Call Sign - 3FG07
Crude Oil Tanker
Built - Mitsui, Chiba, JP
Yard No. - 1696
L 246m W 42m
GT -59671
Year - 2008
Liverpool, 9 May 2013
LITEYNY PROSPECT
Liteyny Prospect photographed on the Solent early afternoon on a cold 1 November 2014.
Built by Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Engineering in 2003 she is 249m long with a 44m beam and 14.8m draught.
GT = 62,586, NT = 34,823 and DWT = 114,546
Upto Feb 2007 she was called Stena Contender.
She is part of the SCF fleet, this is an all-union commercial foreign trade association “Sovcomflot” which was re-formed as a joint-stock commercial enterprise in 1988. Sovcomflot is Russia’s largest shipping company and a leader in the maritime transportation of hydrocarbons as well as the servicing and support of offshore exploration and oil & gas production. The company’s fleet (owned & chartered) specialises in hydrocarbon transportation from regions with challenging icy conditions and includes 153 vessels with a combined deadweight of about 12.8 million tonnes. A third of these vessels have a high ice class.
Sovcomflot is one of the largest ordering customers of civil ship-building in the Russian Federation.
The company is registered in Saint-Petersburg and has representative offices in Moscow, Novorossiysk, Murmansk, Vladivostok, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, London, Limassol, Madrid, Singapore and Dubai.
MMSI - 636011642
REG - LR, Monrovia
IMO - 9256078
Call Sign - A8AP6
Crude Oil Tanker
Built - Daewoo, Okpo, KR
Yard No. 5232
L 250m x W 44m
GT - 6256
Year - 2003
Solent, 1 November 2014
Built by Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Engineering in 2003 she is 249m long with a 44m beam and 14.8m draught.
GT = 62,586, NT = 34,823 and DWT = 114,546
Upto Feb 2007 she was called Stena Contender.
She is part of the SCF fleet, this is an all-union commercial foreign trade association “Sovcomflot” which was re-formed as a joint-stock commercial enterprise in 1988. Sovcomflot is Russia’s largest shipping company and a leader in the maritime transportation of hydrocarbons as well as the servicing and support of offshore exploration and oil & gas production. The company’s fleet (owned & chartered) specialises in hydrocarbon transportation from regions with challenging icy conditions and includes 153 vessels with a combined deadweight of about 12.8 million tonnes. A third of these vessels have a high ice class.
Sovcomflot is one of the largest ordering customers of civil ship-building in the Russian Federation.
The company is registered in Saint-Petersburg and has representative offices in Moscow, Novorossiysk, Murmansk, Vladivostok, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, London, Limassol, Madrid, Singapore and Dubai.
MMSI - 636011642
REG - LR, Monrovia
IMO - 9256078
Call Sign - A8AP6
Crude Oil Tanker
Built - Daewoo, Okpo, KR
Yard No. 5232
L 250m x W 44m
GT - 6256
Year - 2003
Solent, 1 November 2014
