Name Stemat Spirit Port of registry Rotterdam Commissioned 2010 Length 90 m Draft 3.2 m | Operator Stemat Marine Services Ordered 2009 Launched 6 March 2010 Tonnage 3.721 million kg Builder Taizhou | |
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Owner Stemat Marine Service, Netherlands | ||
The Stemat Spirit is a cable laying vessel (CLV). She is part of Stemat Marine Services, based in Rotterdam, within the Royal Volker Wessels Stevin group. She is a Bureau Veritas Hull Mach AUT UMS Dynapos AM/AT R Special Service Workboat Class. The hull of the barge was built in China by Tianjin Xingang Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Co. Ltd.
The vessel has a 6-point mooring system (using her DP2 system). The vessel can also be beached, allowing her to do cable work onshore, she uses the Hi-plough, which is the latest in marine technology, allowing a deeper burial for the cable.
The Stemat Spirit has been used in a number of wind farm projects in the United Kingdom since 2010, the first of the offshore wind farms was Walney Wind Farm, which is separated into two units, Walney 1 + 2, also there was the London Array and West of Duddon Sands. The Stemat Spirit beached approximately 750m south of Heysham Port to lay the export cable for DONG Energy (26 & 27 June 2010). The export cable was pulled ashore in a joint effort between VolkerInfra, CM&I Marine and VBMS.
In 2013 the vessel was featured in a season 7 episode of the Canadian TV documentary series Mighty Ships.
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