MV Spiegelgracht

Spiegelgracht on the Firth of Clyde, 2019
History
Netherlands
Name	Spiegelgracht
Owner	Spliethoff Group [nl]
Port of registry	Amsterdam,  Netherlands[1]
Builder	Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Company, Japan
Yard number	1173
Launched	28 August 1999
Completed	18 April 2000
In service	2000–present
Identification	IMO number: 9197911 MMSI number: 245789000 Call sign: PCEO[1]
Status	In service
General characteristics
Type	General cargo ship
Tonnage	16,641 GT 6,700 NT 21,402 DWT
Length	168 m (551 ft) (overall)
Installed power	Wärtsilä 6L64, 12,060 kW (16,170 hp)

MV Spiegelgracht is a general cargo ship, operated by Spliethoff Group [nl]'s bevrachtingskantoor. She was launched in 1999.

Service history

Spiegelgracht was built in Japan by the Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Company, under the construction hull number 1172. She entered service with Spliethoff's Bevrachtingskantoor, a Netherlands-based shipping company, in January 2000.[2] Spiegelgracht is employed on numerous services for the company, including the collection of pleasure yachts from European ports – including Palma, Majorca and Southampton – in November of every year, and sailing them across the Atlantic to locations in the Caribbean for the winter cruising season. She then returns them to the Mediterranean every May for the summer cruising season.^[citation needed]

Spiegelgracht is also used to transport a wide range of general cargo, sometimes being used on a regular service between the Baltic and North West Europe and the USA; the ship also often makes transits through the Kiel Canal between the Baltic and North Sea.[2][3] In 2011 Spiegelgracht and another company ship, Deltagracht, transported disassembled wind turbines manufactured by the Danish company Vestas. Spiegelgracht carried 10 turbines from Esbjerg to Curaçao, in the Dutch Antilles, while Deltagracht carried 21 destined for Portland, Victoria.[4]

References

1. "Spiegelgracht (9197911)". Equasis. Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy. Retrieved 2012-01-10.
2. Jeff Cameron (5 January 2003). "Spiegelgracht – Netherlands". wellandcanal.ca. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
3. "ClydeSights: Spiegelgracht". clydesights. 7 June 2010. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
4. "Large heavy lift vessels in Esbjerg". Blue Water Shipping. 23 December 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2012.

External links

• Marine Safety Office, New Orleans (2002). "Investigation Activity Report: SPIEGELGRACHT; Grounding On: 1/24/2002". Washington, D.C.: United States Coast Guard. Retrieved 2012-01-10.
• "Spiegelgracht (2648)". Port State Information Exchange. United States Coast Guard. Retrieved 2012-01-11.