TUVAQ - St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Call sign - VOSW
IMO number - 7421966
Owner/Manager - Coastal Shipping Ltd., St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
Location - Tuvaq was photographed while she was sailing upbound in the Welland Canal at Port Robinson, Ontario, Canada
Photograph Date - 20 May 2004
Photographer - Jeff Cameron
Added to archive - 28 October 2004
Last updated - 28 October 2004
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SHIP'S HISTORY
Ordered - September 1974
Keel laid - 2 September 1976
Launched - 12 February 1977
Delivered - May 1977
Newbuild price - $20.313 million (US)
(a) Tiira - Finland (13 Dec 2002)
(b) Tuvaq - Canada
As of May 2004 Tuvaq was still in service
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PARTICULARS
Ship type - Petroleum products tanker
Gross tonnage - 11,290
Net tonnage - 4,937
Deadweight tonnage - 15,954
L.O.A. - 164.47 meters ( 539' 5.5" )
L.B.P. - 150.02 meters ( 492' 1" )
Width overall - 22.20 meters ( 72' 10" )
Width moulded - 21.51 meters ( 70' 7" )
Draught - 9.502 meters ( 31' 2" )
Depth - 12.02 meters ( 39' 5" )
Number of cargo tanks - 8
Volume of tanks - 17,207 m3 (approx 108,000 bbls)
Number of cargo pumps - 8
Rate of discharge - 8 x 320 tonnes/hour
Cargo hose crane - 1 (@ 5 tonnes)
Water ballast capacity - unknown
Cargo tank heating coils - In all tanks
Designed for service in heavy ice conditions (Ice class 1)
Fitted with heavy icebreaking bow & double hull plating
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CONSTRUCTION
Builder - Werft Nobiskrug GmbH
Country - Rendsburg, West Germany
Hull number - 688
Engine builder - MaK Maschinenbau GmbH
Country - Kiel, Germany
Number of engines - 2
Engine type - MaK (model 12M551AK) 12-cyl diesels
Horsepower - 16,000 bhp or 11,474 kW
Fuel - Diesel fuel & heavy fuel oil
Diesel fuel oil capacity - unknown
Heavy fuel oil capacity - unknown
Rate of consumption - 20.5 tonnes/day
Speed - 16.0 knots
Propeller - 1 variable pitch
Bow thuster - 1 (?hp)
Steering gear - standard rudder
Generators - 2 x 2,800kW & 2 416kW 380V 50Hz a.c.
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION -
This section is open for all viewers to contribute any information about this ship that is known such as
former owners, managers, charterers, accidents, conversions, drydockings, cargoes, voyages, sightings or ports of call etc..
** From her construction until late in 1999 Tiira was owned and operated by Neste Oy, Finland
** From 1999 until December of 2002 she was owned by Citibank N.A. and managed by Fortum Oil & Gas Oy also of Finland
** In December of 2002 she was purchased by Coastal Shipping Ltd., Newfoundland, Canada [Woodward Group]. She was renamed
Tuvaq and transferred to Canadian regisrty
** 19/20 May 2004 - Tuvaq sailed up the Welland Canal for the first time with a cargo of diesel oil from Quebec, City for
Sarnia, Ontario
Information sources - Fairplay Internet Ship Register, Lloyds Registers & Marine News - The World Ship Society
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