MV Hansa Stavanger

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History
Name	Hansa Stavanger
Operator
Port of registry	Monrovia,  Liberia
Builder	, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China[1]
Yard number	271[1]
Laid down	July 18, 1996[1]
Launched	March 9, 1997[1]
Completed	September 29, 1997[1]
In service	1997–2013
Renamed	Maersk Izmir (1998-1999) Maersk Gauteng (1999-1999) Direct Condor (1999-2000) Hansa Stavanger (2000-2003) Cap Pasado (2003-2004) Lykes Trader (2004-2005) Hansa Stavanger (2005-2012) Pearl (2012-2013) VSM (2013)
Identification	IMO number: 9128465 Call sign: A8UZ8[1] MMSI number: 636091967[2]
Fate	Scrapped in February 13, 2013 at Alang, India.[3]
General characteristics [1]
Type	Container ship
Tonnage	15,988 GT 8,222 NT 20,526 DWT
Length	170.17 m (558 ft 4 in)
Beam	24.80 m (81 ft 4 in)
Draft	10.85 m (35 ft 7 in)
Depth	14.20 m (46 ft 7 in)
Ice class	GL ice class E Finnish-Swedish ice class II
Installed power	MAN-B&W 6S60MC (12,240 kW)
Propulsion	Single shaft; fixed pitch propeller
Speed	18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph)
Capacity	1,550 TEU

MV Hansa Stavanger was a German container ship. Owner of the Ship was Schiffahrts-Gesellschaft MS "HANSA STAVANGER" Co. KG. The Hansa Stavanger was built In 1997 at Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard in the Chinese city of Guangzhou. Her loading capacity is 20,526 GT & she could transport 1,550 containers on board. She was captured by Somali pirates on April 4, 2009.^[4] Around May 1, 2009, USS Boxer and a screen of German Navy warships assisted approximately 200 members of the German special police unit GSG-9 in approaching the hijacked ship. During the last phase of the operation, James L. Jones, the U.S. President's National Security Advisor, withheld final approval for the operation out of concern for the safety of the 25 sailors aboard the vessel. This led the German Federal Ministry of Defence to abort the planned attack on the freighter and the GSG-9 unit returned to their base of operations at the airport of Mombasa, Kenya.^[5]

Among the captured sailors held hostage were eleven Tuvaluans and one Fijian. A ransom of $US 15 million had been demanded. The government of Tuvalu indicated it was incapable of paying, and expressed great concern for its citizens.^[6][7] On August 3, 2009 the ship was released after a ransom of two million dollars was paid, and was escorted into port in Mombasa, Kenya by the German frigates Brandenburg and Rheinland-Pfalz.^[8]

Whereabouts of the ship[]

After Hijacking, The vessel was later renamed into Pearl reflagged from Liberia to Comoros & in January 2013 renamed again into VSM & beached at Alang, India on February 13, 2013.

Literature[]

Kotiuk, Krzysztof (2010), Frohe Ostern Hansa Stavanger: 121 Tage in der Hand von Piraten (in German), Bielefeld: Delius Klasing, p. 219, ISBN 978-3-7688-3129-1

References[]

Coordinates: 2°40′S 46°03′E / 2.667°S 46.050°E / -2.667; 46.050