Schelde off Vlissingen, Netherlands 26 March 2016
The crane ship Oleg Stranshov was 07.15 o'clock launched at the yard of IHC Merwede at Krimpen aan den IJssel without any ceremony but with a large audience. Her building nr. is 9452701. Dimensions 183,00 meter (over all but excluded crane and anchors)-171,60 meter (between perpendiculars) x 37,80 (sailing or serving as a pipe layer)-47,00 (serving as a crane/lifting weights) x 8,50 (sailing)-13,84 (while lifting) x14,50m (while scantling) and with a hold below the main deck (working platform) of 18,20. When launched her weight was 20.000 tons. She is fitted out with two removable azipods (each of 5.000 kW) aft, amidships two DP thursters which could be drawn (2 x 3.500 kW) in and finally two bow thrusters in funnels (2 x 1./012 kW) driven by 6 diesel generators of each 4.500 kW. To be fitted out with a helicopter platform suitable for Sikorsky S 61 N helicopters. Her casco was completed at Rotterdam where the crane was. This the second crane ship for this company, she all ready possesed the crane ship Stanislav Yudin.Cyprus-flagged, homeport Limassol. IMO 9452701, MMSI 212905000 and callsign 5BNL2.
