Beluga Fraternity
 BBC California on the Hudson River in 2015
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| History | |
|---|---|
| Name |
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| Operator | Beluga Shipping GmbH[1] |
| Port of registry | St. John's,  Antigua and Barbuda[1] |
| Builder | , Wuhu, People's Republic of China[1] |
| Yard number | JD12000-8[1] |
| Laid down | 28 April 2007[1] |
| Launched | 18 August 2007[1] |
| Completed | 28 February 2008[1] |
| Identification |
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| Status | In service[2] |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Type | General cargo ship |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 138.05 m (452 ft 11 in) |
| Beam | 21.0 m (68 ft 11 in) |
| Draft | 8.0 m (26 ft 3 in) |
| Depth | 11.0 m (36 ft 1 in) |
| Ice class | GL E3 |
| Installed power | Caterpillar 6M43C (5,400 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
| Capacity | 665 TEU |
BBC California, before 2011 known as Beluga Fraternity and briefly Fraternity, is a German general cargo ship owned by Beluga Shipping. In 2009 she and her sister ship, , transited the Northern Sea Route while carrying power plant components from Ulsan, South Korea, to the Russian port of Vladivostok.[3] The voyage was widely covered and sometimes incorrectly said to be the first time when non-Russian ships make the transit.[4][5][6][7] In 1997, a Finnish oil tanker, Uikku, sailed the length of the Northern Sea Route from Murmansk to the Bering Strait, becoming the first Western ship to complete the voyage.[3]
References[]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "BBC California (112438)". DNV GL Vessel Register. Germanischer Lloyd. Retrieved 2012-04-17.
- ^ a b c "BBC California (9402055)". Equasis. French Ministry for Transport. Retrieved 2012-04-17.
- ^ a b Andrew Revkin (2009-09-04). "Commercial Arctic Passage Nearing Goal". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-09-05.
- ^ Andrew Revkin (2009-07-28). "Era of Trans-Arctic Shipping Nigh". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-04-17.
- ^ "Derretimiento de los hielos en el Artico abre codiciada ruta marítima" [Melting ice in the Arctic seaway opens coveted: Two German freighters that traveled from South Korea to Siberia, managed to cross the mythical Northeast Passage, along the Russian coast]. . 2009-09-15. Archived from the original on 2011-12-28. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
- ^ "Første skip gjennom Nordøstpassasjen" [The first ship through the Northwest Passage]. NRK. 2009-09-12. Archived from the original on 2011-12-28. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
- ^ "Gemilerin rotasını değiştiren gelişme" [Development that changes the course of the vessels]. . 2010-12-17. Archived from the original on 2012-05-07. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
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- 2007 ships
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