Name Esperanza del Mar Status in active service Beam 17.70 m (58.1 ft) Length 97 m Commissioned October 2001 | In service November 2001 Displacement 4.996 GT Draught 5.50 m (18.0 ft) Builder Gijón | |
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Buque hospital esperanza del mar
There have been at least three Ships bearing the name Esperanza del Mar [espeˈɾanθa ðel maɾ] (span. „Hope of the Sea“), operated by the Instituto Social de la Marina (Social Institute of the Navy, ISM) on behalf of the Spanish Department of Labor serving as hospital ships for Spanish fishermen.
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Visita el buque hospital esperanza del mar
2001 Vessel
Costing over €21 million, with around 20 percent being funded by subsidies from the European Union, the ship was built by Juliana Constructora Gijonesa S.A., in Gijon, Spain. Commissioned in October, it entered regular service in late November 2001. Homeported in Las Palmas, Esperanza del Mar provides medical services for the crews of the Spanish industrial fishing fleet off the coast of Western Africa.
It is one of the larger hospital ships currently in service and possibly the largest purpose-built hospital ship (instead of converted vessels).
