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Maud replaced HNoMS Valkyrien as the naval logistics vessel. The vessel's primary task is to support naval forces with after-supplies. The ship is the largest ship ever in the Royal Norwegian Navy, and is twice as large as the frigates of the Fridtjof Nansen class. [2] She is named in honour of Queen Maud of Norway, wife of Haakon VII of Norway ...
HNoMS Maud [36] was ordered on 28 June 2013 [22] to replace HNoMS Tyr and HNoMS Valkyrien [37] at a cost of NOK1,320m [37] (~£140m) [38] with 100% offsets. [37] She is based on the AEGIR-18R design. [11] but includes a 48-bed [39] hospital underneath the flight deck with an operating theatre, isolation ward and CT scanner. [40]
On most crude-oil tankers, a special crude oil washing system, or COW system, is part of the cleaning process. [5] The COW system circulates hot crude oil through the fixed tank-cleaning system to remove wax and asphaltic deposits. [5] Although machines are often used to wash tanks, a final stage of manual cleaning known as mucking, is usually ...
HNoMS Otra and HNoMS Hinnøy. 1st Mine Clearing Squadron Flagship Nordkapp A531 (1980) - former coast guard patrol vessel (W320) commissioned into navy service effective 1 November 2022. [12] Oksøy-class mine hunter (1994) Måløy M342; Hinnøy M343; HNoMS Rauma (M352), an Alta-class minesweeper. Alta-class minesweeper (1996): [13] Otra M351 ...
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Crude oil washing (COW) is washing out the residue from the oil tanker using the crude oil cargo itself, after the cargo tanks have been emptied. Crude oil is pumped back and preheated in the slop tanks, then sprayed back via high pressure nozzles in the cargo tanks onto the walls of the tank. Due to the sticky nature of the crude oil, the oil ...
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The Type 707 tankers are a series of replenishment oilers under construction for the German Navy to provide underway replenishment for its ships at sea. Procurement of two vessels was announced in July 2019, with delivery intended in 2025 to replace the Rhön -class tankers which are scheduled to be retired that same year.