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FIGHTER

Name

Type

IMO-number

Call sign

Flag

Port of registry

GT

DWT

NT

Length

 

Breadth

Max. (summer) draught

Speed

Origin

Destination

Purpose

Built

Launch date

Date of completion

Builder

 

 

Yard number

Bollard pull

Propulsion

 

Number of screws

Generators

 

Bow thruster

Deck equipment

 

 

Auxiliaries

 

Accommodation

Owner

 

 

 

Previous names & owners

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Remarks

FIGHTER

Tug

7512454

ORLG

Belgium

Antwerpen

491 t

517 t

90 t

42,02 m over all
37,01 m between perpendiculars

10,75 m

4,30 m

14,75 knots

Folkestone - United Kingdom

High sea

Formalities

1977

08.03.1977

04.1977

Chantiers de Naval Rupelmonde
Rupelmonde
Belgium

437

Ahead 55 t

1x 16 cylinder ’Cockerill’ type V16TR240 diesel engine of 3.000 kW at 1.000 rpm driving a C.P. propeller in a ’Kort’ nozzle rudder at 180 rpm

1x Controllable pitch propeller

2x gensets of each 300 kVA - 380V/50Hz

1x port generator of 75 kVA

1x 270 kW

Hydraulic towing winch ’Brusselle’ type M52

Drum capacity: 900 m steel wire - diameter 50 mm

Brake holding: 120 t, dynamic: 25 t at 25 m/min, max. pull: 30 t

Tugs fully equipped for salvage assistance s.a. external power supply, oxy-acetylene cutting and welding, salvage pumps

Most cabins are air-conditioned for 8 up to 18 men

N.V. URS Ocean Towage
Noorderlaan 139
2030 Antwerpen
Belgium

Fighter

1977: Built by Scheepswerf van Rupelmonde NV at Rupelmonde - Belgium

1977 delivered to "URS - Unie van Redding en Sleepdienst" at Antwerpen - Belgium, stationed at Vlissingen - The Netherlands

198x: (504 GRT, 90 NRT)
2000 -01/01: "To Smit Union Coastal Towage NV" at Antwerpen - Belgium)
2004: To "URS Ocean Towage NV" at Antwerpen- Belgium

2005 -01/03: brought into "Euro Tugs" (a pool formed by "URS", Antwerpen and "Fairplay", Hamburg)

Registration cancellation 15.11.2007

Zeebrugge 08 October 2005