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Before leaving European waters, Prince of Wales conducted STOL trials with a WAS HCMC twin-engine heavy-lift RPAS to embark a dummy payload of naval memorabilia before returning to the UK with a fuel sample for laboratory testing, demonstrating the first steps in obtaining fixed-wing cargo capability for the Queen Elizabeth-class carriers.
MV Ursa Major was a heavy-lift ship that operated from 2009 to 2024. She was built in Germany in 2009 as Scan Britania. She was renamed Hyundai Britania in 2010; EIT Palmina in 2011; Sparta III in 2017; and Ursa Major in 2021. In 2024 she sank in the western Mediterranean, with the loss of two of her 16 crew.
The steel cutting ceremony for the first ship took place on 10 April 2024 at Hindustan Shipyard. [17] The keel for the first ship Yard-11200 was laid on 14 November 2024 at Hindustan Shipyard. [19] Steel cutting ceremony for the second ship took place on 11 December 2024 at Kattupalli Shipyard as per the sub contract signed earlier. [20] [21]
In February, Gillis Gilkerson Construction announced the completion of Chesapeake Shipbuilding's new two-story building, spanning an estimated 10,000 square feet.
The ship was initially expected to join the fleet by 2017 but has been significantly delayed and is now expected by 2030. [8] The ship was originally to be named CCGS John G. Diefenbaker after John G. Diefenbaker, Canada's 13th prime minister whose government founded the Canadian Coast Guard in 1962, but the new name was announced on 19 August ...
Chesapeake 1000 (formerly Sun 800) is a heavy lift sheerleg crane ship, owned by Donjon Marine Co., capable of lifting 1,000 short tons (890 long tons; 910 t). [1] [2] It is one of the largest boomable stiff-leg-derrick barges on the eastern seaboard of the United States.
The first landing platform dock has officially started its construction on 10 August 2023 where a first steel cutting ceremony was held in PT PAL's facility in Surabaya, Indonesia [3] while the second landing platform dock has officially started its construction on 22 January 2024. [10] It is expected that the ship would be completed by 2024 ...
A heavy-lift ship is a vessel designed to move very large loads that cannot be transported by normal ships. They are of two types: Semi-submersible ships that take on water ballast to allow the load—usually another vessel—to be floated over the deck, whereupon the ballast is jettisoned and the ship's deck and cargo raised above the ...