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HOEGH BEIJING - IMO 9431836

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Photographer:
Jens Boldt [ View profile ]
Captured:
Jun 24, 2015
Location:
Hamburg, Germany
Added:
Jun 24, 2015
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2,448
Image Resolution:
1,680 x 1,151

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HOEGH BEIJING in Blohm & Voss floating dock, Hamburg, 24.06.2015

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Current name:
HOEGH BEIJING
Home port:
Oslo
Vessel Type:
Vehicle Carrier
Gross tonnage:
47,232 tons
Summer DWT:
12,250 tons
Length:
182.8 m
Beam:
31.5 m
Draught:
9 m

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of this ship

Last known position:
11°1’7.8” N, 80°9’21.9” W
Status:
Speed, course (heading):
15.6kts, 352.7° (354°)
Destination:
 - Location:
Manzanillo
 - Arrival:
25th Mar 2024 / 10:00:24 UTC
Last update:
3 days ago
Source:
AIS (ShipXplorer)

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Shipping - 1 photos

Vehicle Carriers - 47 photos

Ships under Repair or Conversion - 5 photos

Wheelhouse - 1 photos

Ship's Deck - 2 photos

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Oh, a revival:-)

Thank you Marcus and Brett for the nice compliments and Theo, thanks for further explanations!

Cheers,
Jens

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@Cornelia
Car carriers are rather light, but have a very big above wind-area, compare it to a sailing vessel with a good breeze,,they hardly move. With force 5-6 from the side in ballast the bulkers I sail rolling much less then loaded in the same condition, the stabilising effect of the high hull and wind area is gone. Ever saw small fishers on the elbe/cuxhaven, they often have a small sail set,,this is plain and only for stabilising the vessel in righ seas

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@Cornelia,,no stabilizers as far as I know, thise are usually rather expensive and for that matter for paxer for good reasons

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Beauty Jens :)Brett

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person
Great docking picture, Jens! Very impressive to see the fat carcarrier. The dock is large but the ship is gigantic ;-)
Cheers, Marcus

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person
Hi Tuomas, no problem and no offense taken! Thanks again for your detailed explanation:-)

All the best
Jens

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person
Jens, I was referring to the remark "there is not much below the waterline in comparison to what is above the waterline". While I know Cornelia is not a newbie in the shipping world, more often than not people not familiar with ships seem to be surprised by the fact that large cruise ships, car carriers and container ships etc. are not drawing tens of meters of water...

As for the stabilizers, I don't know it for a fact, but I designed a car carrier as part of a school project a few years back and never came across any stabilizing systems in my reference ships. However, I would assume more than a few have permanent ballast onboard as I found it very difficult to load the vessel in such way that it would stay upright despite having relatively conservative design. However, thanks to the very large freeboard, the vessel rarely sank (never expected to use that expression as a naval architect...) but was often floating with a very large heeling angle (remember e.g. Cougar Ace). I have seen videos of car carriers rolling in heavy seas, gently (thanks to the low metacentric height) but with pretty extreme angles (up to the point where cars broke loose and were recorded flying around on the car deck by the CCTV system).

Anyway, I apologize if I have offended someone with my remark - that was not my intention.

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Thank you for info Tuomas, to answer your question: NO I did not find this info anywhere. I was just wondering, as I have seen on two occasions carcarrier very stable in seas despite bad weahter whereas the ship where I was onboard (a containership) was rolling and pitching heavily. The carcarrier in my opinion acted in sea more like a big ro-ro ferry with stabilizers. Of course, as an enthusiast but NOT a specialist I could not resist asking this question :)

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Hi Tuomas, thanks for the info. I couldn't have answered Cornelia's question. Therefore I'd like to torture you with another ignorant question: How would I have known that there are no stabilizers by just looking at the main dimensions? I really have no idea, no kidding.

Cheers,
Jens

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Isn't this information that you can find by simply looking at the main dimensions?

I don't think car carriers have stabilizers or anti-rolling tanks, or at least I have never heard of such features on these vessels. After all, the cargo is typically lashed on the deck, so rolling does not really matter.

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Very impressive to see a carcarrier in dock and see that there is not much below the waterline in comparison to what is above the waterline. I wonder, do this type of ship have stabilizers?

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