L'ASTROLABE icebreaker 2017

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L'ASTROLABE icebreaker 2017

Post by aukepalmhof » Thu Nov 09, 2017 7:20 pm

Built as an icebreaker supply ship under yard No C325, hull by CRIST, Gdynia, Poland and completed by Chantiers Piriou in Concarneau, France.
June 2015 ordered.
22 December 2016 launched.
Tonnage 2,028 grt, 3,000 dwt, dim. 72 x 16m.
Powered by four Wärtsilä diesels each 1,600 kW, twin shafts, two controllable pitch propellers, speed?
Endurance by a speed of 12 knots, 35 days.
Accommodation for 60 persons included crew.
Cargo capacity 1,200 ton
Fitted out with a helipad and hangar.
12 July 2017 christened as L’ASTROLABE (P 800).
September 2017 completed, building cost 50 million Euro. Homeport Réunion. Port of Registry Concarneau, France. IMO NO 9797539.

L’ASTROLABE is a French icebreaker that used to bring personnel and supplies to the Dumont d'Urville Station in Antarctica. The vessel, built by Chantiers Piriou and delivered in September 2017, replaced the 1986-built vessel of the same name.
Development and construction
In June 2015, the Ministry of Overseas France awarded the construction of a 50 million euro polar logistics vessel to the Chantiers Piriou from Concarneau. The vessel, based on a concept developed by French naval architecture company Marine Assistance, combines the functions of the two existing French ships it will replace: the 1966-built patrol vessel L’ALBATROS and the 1986-built icebreaker L’ASTROLABE. The new vessel is owned and operated by the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (TAAF) administration, the French Polar Institute Paul-Émile Victor (IPEV) and the French Navy.
Since Chantiers Piriou had no experience of building an ice-going vessel, the French shipyard joined forces with the Finnish engineering company Aker Arctic in order to be able to bid against foreign shipyards such as the German Nordic Yards. Later, Aker Arctic was also chosen to carry out basic design and ice model testing for the vessel.
Since the Chantiers Piriou shipyard was fully booked with ship orders from the French Navy, the construction of the hull was subcontracted to a Polish shipyard. The production of the vessel began on 16 December at CRIST in Gdynia, Poland. On 22 December 2016, approximately one year later, the vessel was floated out from the dry dock The unfinished vessel was then towed to France for final outfitting. The ship, which was given the name L’ASTROLABE after her predecessor on 12 July, was delivered in September 2017.
Career
L’ASTROLABE will be deployed in the Indian Ocean in 2017 and will carry out her first resupply mission to the Dumont d'Urville Station in Adélie Land, Antarctica, in 2018.
Design
L’ASTROLABE is 72 meters (236 ft) long and 16 meters (52 ft), making the new vessel somewhat larger than her 66-meter (217 ft) predecessor. The vessel can carry 1,200 tons of cargo and has accommodation for up to 60 personnel, which includes the crew of the vessel. She can also accommodate a helicopter belowdecks.
The vessel is powered by four 1,600 kW (2,100 hp) Wärtsilä 8L20 medium-speed diesel engines driving two stainless steel controllable pitch propellers. She is also fitted with selective catalytic reduction units to reduce NOx emissions and comply with IMO Tier III emission regulations.
L’ASTROLABE is classified by Bureau Veritas. Her ice class, Icebreaker 5, means that she is allowed to operate independently in medium first-year-ice up to 1.2 metres (3.9 ft) thick during the summer and autumn and up to 1 meter (3.3 ft) thick during the winter and spring. The vessel is also allowed to ram ice at a speed of 5.5 knots (10.2 km/h; 6.3 mph), but the ramming shall not be repeated if the ice does not fail at the first attempt.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Astro ... cebreaker)
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