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ship info: FAIRPLAY XI Tug
Call Sign: DJIV2
Flag: Germany [DE]
AIS Vessel Type: Tug
Gross Tonnage: 494 t - Deadweight: 169 t
Length x Breadth: 29.67m × 14.22m
Year Built: 2015
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ship info: AEGIR Pipe layer
Call Sign: 3EYH5
Flag: Panama [PA]
AIS Vessel Type: Pipe Layer
Gross Tonnage: 50228 - Deadweight: 41105 t
Length x Breadth: 211.5m × 46.2m
Year Built: 2012
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She was constructed in 2013 and is one of the largest pipe-laying ships ever built.
Builder: Westcon Yard Florø AS, Norway
Owner: Technip
Built: 2013
Length: 194.5 m
Width: 31 m
Tonnage: 25378 GT
Flag: Bahamas
Home port: Nassau
Photo taken in Trondheim, Norway.
Perama Piraeus Greece - 18/7/2016
Name:Castoro Sei
IMO:8758603
Flag:Bahamas
MMSI:308162000
Callsign:C6DF4
Vessel type: Platform
Gross tonnage: 31,506 tons
Summer DWT:28,000 tons
Length:166 m
Beam:71 m
Draught:10.8 m
Home port:Nassau
Class society:American Bureau Of Shipping
Build year:1978
Canon AE-1 & FD 50mm f1.8 Lens
AGFA Precisa CT 100
Konica Minolta dimage scan dual iv
Perama Piraeus Greece - 18/7/2016
Name:Castoro Sei
IMO:8758603
Flag:Bahamas
MMSI:308162000
Callsign:C6DF4
Vessel type: Platform
Gross tonnage: 31,506 tons
Summer DWT:28,000 tons
Length:166 m
Beam:71 m
Draught:10.8 m
Home port:Nassau
Class society:American Bureau Of Shipping
Build year:1978
Canon AE-1 & FD 50mm f1.8 Lens
AGFA Precisa CT 100
Konica Minolta dimage scan dual iv
Perama Piraeus Greece - 18/7/2016
Name:Castoro Sei
IMO:8758603
Flag:Bahamas
MMSI:308162000
Callsign:C6DF4
Vessel type: Platform
Gross tonnage: 31,506 tons
Summer DWT:28,000 tons
Length:166 m
Beam:71 m
Draught:10.8 m
Home port:Nassau
Class society:American Bureau Of Shipping
Build year:1978
Panasonic Lumix DMC GF2 & G Vario f3.5-5.6 ASPH. 14-42mm
Docked at Invergordon pier earlier this evening.
Constructed in 2013, the Deep Energy is one of the largest pipelay vessels ever built. She has the capacity to install rigid pipe, flexible pipe and umbilicals in water depths up to 3,000 m via the reel-lay method. With a fast transit speed of 19.5 knots, high product storage capacity and an abandonment and recovery system rated to 500 Te, she can operate on North Sea and on Intercontinental projects.
LORELAY (IMO: 7349807) is a Pipe Layer and is sailing under the flag of Malta. Her length overall (LOA) is 179 meters and her width is 25.86 meters.
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Flag: United Kingdom
Type: Pipe Layer
IMO: 9649029 - MMSI: 235101697 - Call Sign: 2GZA5
Gross Tonnage: 17,283 tons
DeadWeight: 11,312 tons
Length x Breadth: 146m x 30m
Year Built: 2014
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0/12/2014, Schiedam, Netherlands.
An offshore construction and pipe laying vessel.
Keel laid on 30/11/2010, launched on 16/11/2012, and completed on 05/01/2014, by Triyards Sofel / Saigon Offshore Fabrication & Engineering Ltd, Vung Tau, Viet Nam (H1002)
48,881 g.t. & 32,000 dwt., as:
'Lewek Constellation' to 2018, and
'Saipem Constellation' since.
Photo with permission of Willem Koper.
Heavy lift construction vessel HLCV Borealis (now known as Seven Borealis) was built by Sembawang Shipyard, in Singapore. Hull fabrication was done at the Nantong Yahua Shipyard. The crane vessel, which is owned by Subsea 7, was delivered in early 2012.
The Solitaire is the largest pipe laying vessel in the world and was built in 1972.
The dimensions of the vessel are 299.9 x 40.64 m (length x breadth).
23/06/2019, Grenaa, Denmark. Vessel is in lay-up.
A crane ship with a 1200 tonne lifting capacity.
Built as a deepwater pipe-laying vessel.
Keel laid on 02/05/2008, launched on 24/07/2009 and completed on 08/11/2010 by Keppel SingMarine, Singapore (340)
32,550 g.t. and 5,000 dwt.
Launched as 'G-1200', completed as:
'Global 1200', to 2021, &
'Huan Qiu 1200' since then.
Now Chinese owned.
14/12/2022, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Islas Canarias, Spain.
Note: Lifeboat testing.
An American pipe laying vessel, registered owner is OMP NSF PRIME AS, of Oslo, Norway - a financier to the energy infrastructure industry.
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Keel laid on 31/08/2013, launched on 22/11/2014, and completed on 07/06/2016, by Keppel Singmarine, Singapore (381)
45,247 g.t. & 15,404 dwt., as:
'DLV 2000'
Alongside at Albert Dock basin Port of Leith.
Vessel Details: Pipelayer
Vessel Name: MV SEVEN NAVICA
IMO: 9177856
MMSI: 232419000
Call Sign: MZHR7
Classification Society: DET NORSKE VERITAS.
Length: 108.53m
Beam: 22m
Draught: 7.1m
Builder: Built in 1999 by Aker-Brattvaag, Norway
Tonnage: 9560t
Class and type:Deep Water Construction Vessel
Tonnage:50,228 GT
Length:211.5 m (694 ft)
Beam:46.2 m (152 ft)
Draft:11.0 m (36.1 ft) max
Depth:8.0 m (26.2 ft)
Crew:305
DCV Aegir is a Deep Water Construction Vessel owned by Heerema Marine Contractors
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Lorelay is a versatile vessel optimised for the execution of small and medium diameter pipeline projects of any length in unlimited water depths, and for associated work such as the installation of risers and subsea protection frames.
As the world’s first pipelay vessel to operate on full dynamic positioning when she was launched in 1986, Lorelay represented a new generation of offshore pipelaying vessel. Her ship-shape allows for a high transit speed, while a large pipe storage capacity means she is less dependent on offshore pipe supply. Lorelay can position precisely and safely in congested areas and lap pipes in very deep water. Lorelay has laid many deepwater steel pipelines; in 1996 she set a new record for deepwater pipeline installation, laying a steel pipe to a depth of 1645 m (5400 ft) in the Gulf of Mexico. (source Allseas)
LORELAY (IMO: 7349807) is a Pipe Layer and is sailing under the flag of Malta. Her length overall (LOA) is 179 meters and her width is 25.86 meters.
EDDA FERD (IMO: 9625504) is a Offshore Supply Ship and is sailing under the flag of Norway. Her length overall (LOA) is 92.2 meters and her width is 20.64 meters.
DCV Aegir is a Deep Water Construction Vessel owned by Heerema Marine Contractors.
The vessel is equipped for J-lay and reel pipelaying, with a payload of 4,500 metric tons.[1] A crane has a lift capacity of 4,000 metric tonnes and lowering equipment can reach a depth of 3,500 meters. The vessel is equipped with class 3 dynamic positioning system.
The monohull is designed for fast transit speed and optimum motion characteristics in operation. The vessel can accommodate 289 persons.
(wikipedia)
The Seven Navica is a pipelayer capable of installing both rigid and flexible products in water depths of up to 2,000m, with a top tension capacity of 205t.
60t offshore crane, 2,200t main deck mounted storage and deployment reel with capacity for 2-inch to 16-inch diameter rigid pipeline. An optional 250t piggyback reel can be fitted as required. She also carries 1 work-class ROV.
Pan Am Railways Train WA-R smokes it up as they pass through the "Dirty Lew" on 1/16/2022.
At the time Pan Am was in the process of cleaning up several derailments around the network. In December of 2021 Sappi-3 stacked up about 15 cars on the Hinkley Branch, two of which the 175 ton road cranes couldn't rerail. The "repaired" section through the derailment site ultimately resulted in 4 more derailments over the following months. While it seemed like Pan Am had the intention of leaving those two loaded paper cars for CSX to clean up, not wanting to bring out the two wreck trains, a derailment in Saco caused by the crew of PO-3 running a derail for the second time in a week, resulted in several LPG cars flipping over.
Since those weighed too much for one of the road cranes to rerail, they brought out both the Waterville wreck set with the 200 ton Brownhoist crane and support cars and the East Deerfield wreck set with a 250 ton Brownhoist and two Cat 583H pipelayers.
In the end, the flatcar the exB&M pipelayer rode on and its support car got kicked out at North Chelmsford, after one of the friction bearing trucks overheated. As a result, the wreck crews had to use just the cranes to rerail the cars, normally only doing one per day.
Since the train was already in Maine, the decision was made to send it to the Hinkley Branch to recover the two paper cars.
So on the morning of 1/16/2022 the train was supposed to depart Rigby before sunrise, to get into position at the derailment site in Hinkley.
Well, per the usual train WAPO lost enough of its units, that it died in Portland blocking the busy Forest Ave. With no available power or crews, the train had to block the single track main until a maintainer got enough of the units going to get the train to Rigby. By that point the original crew had timed out and it was some time before a yard crew could be freed up to come and drag the train into Rigby.
Several Downeasters piled up waiting for the traffic jam to clear as well. This resulted in the wreck train finally getting out after lunch.
Things wouldn't be smooth sailing, in Cumberland Center the leader MEC B40-8 5973 sprung a coolant leak and ran out of water, before shutting down. Not long after taking the Backroad at Royal Jct the train had to stop due to sticking brakes. There were several more stops at New Glouster and Danville Jct before the issue was finally resolved. By the time they were rolling across the L/A bridge light was quickly fading.
Due to traffic I got behind them at Leeds Jct and didn't pick them up again until Readfield (despite the 20 MPH restriction for plain bearing cars I think they were going faster). By that point all the light was shot.
The train would rerail the two cars over the following days before the Waterville set was left at Waterville, while the ED set languished at Yard 8 in Portland for a few months before returning to East Deerfield prior to the takeover.
Since then the equipment has been scattered. The 470 Club got the Waterville baggage car and idler flat, the rigging car, the MEC dozer rigging car, B&M wheel car and the exMEC flatcar. The Railroad Museum of New England got the exB&M troop sleeper and the exB&M caboose that was welded to a flatcar. The Batten Kill and the SC&H got the other flat car, the ED baggage car, the exB&M flatcar and the 250 ton crane and idler, however I think they have since passed up the the latter two. I believe the Waterville dining car is still up for grabs, while the 200 ton crane despite being donated to the 470 Club, was sold to a buyer out of PA. The two Cat 583H's were sold to a company in the MA area which does work for CSX and a few other railroads.
The loss of the Pan Am wreck train was truly the end of an era for railroading in North America. The retirement of the train under CSX marked the end of the wreck train, something which had been used by railroads to clean up wrecks for over 100 years. It is worth noting a few railroads still retain a few cranes, however to my knowledge, none still employ a dedicated train and I haven't heard of any cranes being used in the modern era.
Pan Am Railway
Train: WA-R
1/16/2022
Lewiston, ME
ST District 1 Freight Main Line
Moored at Port of Leith. The Seven Navica is a pipelayer capable of installing both rigid and flexible products in water depths of up to 2,000m, with a top tension capacity of 205t.
60t offshore crane, 2,200t main deck mounted storage and deployment reel with capacity for 2-inch to 16-inch diameter rigid pipeline. An optional 250t piggyback reel can be fitted as required. She also carries 1 work-class ROV.