Laid down 28 April 2007 Construction started 28 April 2007 Length 138 m Builder CSC Jiangdong Shipyard | Yard number JD12000-8 Completed 28 February 2008 Launched 18 August 2007 Weight 1.932 tons | |
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Name BBC California (2011–)Fraternity (2011)Beluga Fraternity (2008–2011) Port of registry St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda | ||
BBC California, before 2011 known as Beluga Fraternity and briefly Fraternity, is a German general cargo ship owned by Beluga Shipping. In 2009 she and her sister ship, Beluga Foresight, transited the Northern Sea Route while carrying power plant components from Ulsan, South Korea, to the Russian port of Vladivostok. The voyage was widely covered and sometimes incorrectly said to be the first time when non-Russian ships make the transit. In 1997, a Finnish oil tanker, Uikku, sailed the length of the Northern Sea Route from Murmansk to the Bering Strait, becoming the first Western ship to complete the voyage.
The implications of the vessels' traverse of the Northeast passage has been the subject of disagreement.
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