Newnew Polar Bear
container ship built in 2005
Newnew Polar Bear is the former name of a feeder container ship that damaged the Balticconnector natural gas pipeline in the Gulf of Finland in October 2023 by dragging its anchor for several hundred nautical miles.
Description
Newnew Polar Bear is a fully-cellular feeder container ship with a container capacity of 1,620 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU) and a deadweight tonnage of 15,952 tons. The ship is 169 metres (554 ft) long, 27.2 metres (89 ft) wide, and has a displacement of 23,847 tonnes (23,470 long tons) when loaded to the maximum draught of 9 metres (30 ft). The ship has a crew of 17 and berthing for up to 12 passengers in six cabins.
Newnew Polar Bear is powered by a single low-speed two-stroke crosshead diesel engine driving a controllable pitch propeller. The ship's eight-cylinder MAN B&W 8S50MC-C is rated at 12,640 kW (16,950 hp) and is capable of propelling it at a speed of 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph). In addition, the ship has three 880 kW (1,180 hp) 12-cylinder Cummins KTA-38-M auxiliary generators to produce electrical power. For maneuvering at ports, Newnew Polar Bear has a 950 kW (1,270 hp) bow thruster and a 650 kW (870 hp) stern thruster.
The ship was built to the highest Finnish-Swedish ice class of 1A Super.
History
Construction
The ship was the second of four Eilbek-class feeder container ships commissioned by the German shipowner Hansa Hamburg Shipping International in the early 2000s.
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