MASHHOUR cutter suction dredger

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MASHHOUR cutter suction dredger

Post by aukepalmhof » Tue Apr 21, 2015 9:07 pm

After the blunder with the first Egyptian issues for the Suez Canal, a new set of stamps were issued in 2014 all of Le2.
All three stamps shows ships but only the middle one I could identify as the “cutter suction dredger MASHHOUR” the other two are container vessels, of which the right one is one of the fleet of the Danish company Maersk which one is impossible to say, Maersk has a large fleet. The left one maybe one of the visitors of the site can identify her.
The cutter suction dredger was built by IHC Merwede at Kinderdijk, Netherlands for the Suez Canal Authority, Egypt.
Ordered October 1994, it was the 32nd craft built by IHC for the Suez Canal Authority since 1901.
04 January 1996 launched as the MASHHOUR.
Dimension: 140.30 x 22.40 x 7.20m., draught 4.95m.
Maximum dredging depth 35.00m.
Total installed power 22,795 kW.
Accommodation for 73 persons.
During the summer of 1996 she was transported to Egypt for undergoing trials on the job deepening and widening the Suez Canal.
22 October 1996 after the successful trials handed over to the new owners.

At that time she was the largest and most powerful cutter suction dredger of its kind in the world, and was designed to dredge very abrasive sand and gravel compacted sand, sticky clay and rocks in the widening and deepening of the Suez Canal.
2015 In service same name and owners.
More information is given on: MIGHTY MASHHOUR, a) MUNCHING MILLIONS

Egypt 2014 le2 sg?, scott?
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