CWind Tempest of Ramsgate

CWind Tempest at the Alicat Workboats quay, Great Yarmouth.

 

Name: CWind Tempest

Vessel type: Crew transfer vessel (CTV)

Design: StormCat 21

Home port: Ramsgate

Flag: United Kingdom

MMSI: 235114568

Call sign: 2JBR5

Crew: 3

Passengers: 12

Length overall: 22.37 m

Beam: 7.7 m

Draught: 1.35 m

Displacement: 72.5 tons

Cargo capacity: 20 tons

Fuel capacity: 1,540 gal. (7,000 litres)

Engines: 2 x MTU 10V 2000 M72

Engine output: 2 x 1,207 hp (900 kW) at 2,250 rpm

Waterjets: 2 x Rolls Royce Kamewa 50A3

Max speed: 28 knots

Service speed: 22 knots

Bollard pull: 8 tons

Max range: 450 nautical miles (518 miles - 833 km)

Builder: Aluminium Marine Consultants (AMC), East Cowes, Isle of Wight

Year built: 2015

Construction: Aluminium

Owner: Global Marine Group, Chelmsford, Essex

 

Previous name: Tempest

 

CTV strikes submerged object.

Tempest, with six people onboard, hit a submerged object at the Kentish Flats wind farm off Whitstable just before 9.30 a.m. on 30th. March 2017 and started taking on water. The Coastguard launched Whitstable's lifeboat, which after arriving at the scene, transferred two crew members and a salvage pump to assist Tempest's two crew. At this time Tempest was still impaled on the submerged object. At 10.55 a.m. the Sheerness lifeboat arrived at the scene and also placed their salvage pump and two crew members onboard. At just after 11.00 a.m. the four Vattenfall wind farm technicians aboard Tempest were transferred to a nearby CTV that had also been standing by. By 11.50 a.m. Tempest had floated clear of the underwater object. The crews were able to asses the damage and Tempest then made her own way to Whitstable's harbour escorted by both lifeboats and was eventually secured alongside the west quay. Both lifeboats were subsequently released from the incident to return to their respective stations. The weather during the incident was good visibility and slight seas in a force 3 wind.

 

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