MV Höegh Osaka
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MV Höegh Osaka is a roll-on/roll-off car carrier ship that was built in 2000 as Maersk Wind for A P Møller, Singapore. She was sold to Höegh Autoliners (Leif Höegh & Co) in 2008 and later renamed Höegh Osaka in August 2011. On 3 January 2015 she developed a severe list and was intentionally grounded in the Solent. Her 24 crewmembers and a pilot were subsequently rescued.
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Maersk Wind at Southampton. | |
History | |
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Singapore | |
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Port of registry | Singapore |
Ordered | 29 November 1997[1] |
Builder | Tsuneishi Holdings Corporation, Nakatado, Japan |
Yard number | 1161 |
Laid down | 3 December 1999 |
Launched | 1 May 2000 |
Completed | 7 September 2000 |
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Status | In service |
General characteristics | |
Type | Car carrier |
Tonnage | |
Length | 179.90 m (590 ft 3 in) (overall)[1] |
Beam | 32.20 m (105 ft 8 in)[1] |
Draught | 10.15 m (33 ft 4 in)[1] |
Depth | 21.62 metres (70 ft 11 in) |
Installed power | Mitsubishi 8UEC60LS diesel engine, 19,140 hp (14,270 kW) |
Propulsion | Single shaft; fixed-pitch propeller |
Speed | 19.2 knots (35.6 km/h; 22.1 mph) |
Crew | 24 |
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