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Hearts of Oak
Heerema Craneships
SSCVs and DCVs
Iver Bugge’s ship, SUNNAAS,
became Heerema’s first
Craneship.
Iver Bugge was one of the
partners of Anco [Norway]
1963 GLOBAL
ADVENTURER ex SUNNAAS
ON 5424031
Call Sign : LAJT
Built 1952 Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Ltd.,
Dundee
9,283 brt; 5,201 nrt; 13,810 dwt
1952 Skibs A/S Nanset, Larvik, Norway; Iver Bugge.
1963 Sold to Global Offshore Structures Ltd., Willemstad-N.A.,
Managed Heerema
Engineering Service.
1963 Rebuilt and
converted to the first craneship, with a 300 ton lift.
by N.V. Dok en
Scheepsbouw Mij. Verolme, Rozenburg.
Renamed GLOBAL
ADVENTURER.
Remeasured 9,622 brt; 3,644 brt; 5,350 dwt.
1964 R.E.M. Island built
using GLOBAL ADVENTURER;
First “pirate” TV
station. Details below.
1967 GLOBAL ADVENTURER ; Brown & Root Panama S.A., Panama,
(Brown &
Root Nederland N.V., Rotterdam).
1975 Scrapped Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Global Adventurer
Carrying the prefabricated
REM Island
Global Adventurer
1968 CHALLENGER ex P.G. THULIN
Named after Pieter Gerard
Thulin (NETM).
Nederlandse ErtsTankers
Maatschappij N.V., The Hague.
(Vinke & Co. N.V.,
Rotterdam)
Yard Nr 555
Built 1956 Scheepswerf J.
Smit & Czn., Alblasserdam
18,718 grt; 10,952 nrt;
26,871 dwt
193,23 m x 25,36 m x 9,88 m
15.300 hp; 16.5 knots
Call Sign : PGQA
1968 CHALLENGER ; Panama Overseas Shipping Co.
Inc., Panama
( Heerema Engineering Service ).
Converted by N.V. Boele's
Scheepswerven & Machinefabriek, Bolnes
Remeasured 10,898 grt; 5,919
nrt; beam 29.37 m.
1970 CHALLENGER I ; Arun Shipping Co., Ltd.,
Monrovia
( Heerema Marine Contractors ).
1987 24th April : Towed from
Europoort,
by tug SUMATRAS to Turkey.
1987 15th May: arrived for scrapping,
Aliaga, Turkey.
PG
Thulin
Challenger
I
1971 CHAMPION ex VELUTINA
Call Sign GKFM
Built 1950 Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Wallsend
U.K.
18,666 grt; 11,391 nrt;
29,648 dwt.
201,16 X 25,68 X 10,94 mt.
480x 100 x 45 ft
Engines : Wallsend Slipway Co.-turbines.
1950 VELUTINA ;
Anglo-Saxon (Shell Tankers Ltd.) London
U.K..
1971 Forepart converted ;
Renamed CHAMPION ; Heerema Engineering.
Aft broken up at Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht.
Velutina
1973 THOR ex VEEDOL
Built 1955 Mitsubishi Zosen, Nagasaki
For Tide Water Tankers, Monrovia
733ft 10ins x 100ft 6ins x
36ft 10ins
28,339 grt; 19,564 nrt;
49,819 dwt
17,600 hp Turbine; 16.5 knots
1973 Renamed THOR ; Heerema Engineering.
1982 17th September : Arrived
Kaohsiung, Taiwan for demolition.
1976 ODIN ex ARMAGNAC
For Soc. Francaise de
Transports Petroliers, Dunkirk
Built 1961 Wilton Feijenoord, Schiedam
Yard Nr 770
Launched April 10th 1961
33,621 brt; 17,800 nrt;
48,549 dwt
746ft 5ins x 102ft 1ins x
39ft 1ins
20,000 hp Turbine; 17 knots
1976 Renamed ODIN ; Heerema Engineering - lift of
2,700 tons.
1994 Scrapped.
The
launch of the Armagnac
Odin
As
much as these early craneships
could
be easily manoeuvred into position,
it
was clear that stability, strength and power was needed.
Heerema
pioneered Semi-Submersible Crane Vessels ( SSCVs ), with the BALDER in 1978 and
the HERMOD in 1979. Originally sister ships, HERMOD had major works completed
1984 and BALDER was converted to a Deep Water Construction Vessel (DCV) in
2001. HERMOD was docked July 2004; Keppel Verolme, Rotterdam, Netherlands. THIALF is a Semi-Submersible Crane
Vessel. It was constructed in 1985 as DB-102 for McDermott by Mitsui
Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.. In 1997 it was taken over by Heerema
after discontinuation of their joint venture with McDermott, HeereMac.
1978 BALDER
For general details, see her
sister, HERMOD
The DCV Balder is a
Deepwater Construction Vessel.
Built 1978 Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co.,
Ltd., Tamano.
As a Semi-Submersible Crane
Vessel.
2001 Converted to a DCV by
Keppel Verolme
(formerly Verolme Botlek).
Balder
1979 HERMOD
Built 1979 Mitsui
Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Tamano.
For Zodiac Shipping Co. (Heerema
Group Services, Panama)
73,887 grt; 22,166 nrt
505ft x 450ft x 282ft
Depth to Workdeck 138ft
Draft 38 – 92ft
Accommodation for 336 men
Maximum Deck load 8,000 tons
Diesel engines; 24,000 hp
6 knots with 8,000 ton
loading and at draft 38ft.
Hermod
Photograph
Copyright : maritimephoto.com
Thanks
to Wim for his kind permission
For
more photos and the original of this one go to
http://www.maritimephoto.com/collect...l/1573/photo/0
1985 THIALF
Built 1985 Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co.,
Tamano.
For McDermott ( HeereMac
).as DB-102
1998 Taken over by Heerema;
Renamed THIALF
Heerema Group Services,
Panama
661ft x 542ft x 290ft
Depth to Workdeck 162ft
Draft 43 – 104ft
136,709 grt; 41,012 nrt
Accommodation for 736 men
Maximum load 14,200 tons
Diesel engines; 37,536 hp
6 knots at maximum load and
minimum depth.
Thialf
REM
Island
Six
miles off Noordwijk, Netherlands.
REM
= Reclame Exploitatie Maatschappij
(Advertising
Exploitation Company).
Built
1964 at a cost of 9 million guilders by a team of broadcasting entrepreneurs,
who used it to broadcast radio and television programmes to the Netherlands
under the name Radio Noordzee and TV Noordzee. Financed by bankers Texeira de
Mattos, the man with the original idea of broadcasting from an artificial
platform was Will Hordijk from The Hague. In 1963 he teamed up with Cornelis
Verolme, who owned a shipyard in Cork, Ireland, and Pieter Heerema, of
Scheveningen; Heerema's GLOBAL ADVENTURER, brought the prefabricated sections
to the Netherlands, arriving off the coast of Noordwijk 3rd May
1964.
The
Dutch government gained European support to extend the territorial limit to
11.5km, which meant that REM Island was within Dutch legal jurisdiction.
29th
July 1964, the first radio test transmission was made.
13th
August : start of TV tests.
1st
September : official opening of TV Noordzee.
14th
December : TV Noordzee last transmission.
17th
December 1964 : boats and police helicopters
arrived
at REM Island.
At
0907, Radio Noordzee went off the air.
In
1974, the Department of Public Works began using REM Island
as
a base for marine investigations and measurements.
In
2003, REM island was emptied.
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If
anyone has the copyright to the pictures of Balder or Thialf,
please
offer your permission to use these.
I am
willing to remove them if the copyright holder wishes.
Raymond Forward