French ship Thalassa (1996)

Career (France)
Name: Thalassa
Operator: IFREMER
Port of registry: Nantes
Builder: Manche Industrie Marine, Dieppe
Launched: 1995
In service: 1996
Identification: IMO: 9070307
Call sign: FNFP
MMSI: 227297000
Status: in active service, as of 2012
General characteristics [1]
Tonnage:2,803 GT
Displacement:3,022 t (2,974 long tons)
Length:73.65 m (241 ft 8 in) o/a
Beam:14.9 m (48 ft 11 in)
Draught:6.1 m (20 ft 0 in)
Propulsion:
  • Diesel-electric
  • 4 × MWM-Deutz TBD 604-BV12 1,128 kW (1,513 hp) diesel engines
  • 1 × Cegelec RP-38P 12/12 2,200 kW (2,950 hp) electric motor
  • 1 × shaft
  • 1 × 440 kW (590 hp) bow thruster
  • 1 × 264 kW (354 hp) stern thruster[2]
Speed:14.7 knots (27.2 km/h; 16.9 mph)
Crew:16 to 25

Thalassa is an oceanographic research vessel operated by the Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), the French Institute for Research of the Exploitation of the Sea.

Thalassa was launched in 1996 and commissioned to replace an eponymous ship of 1960.

References

  1. ↑ "Specifications - Ifremer Fleet". flotte.ifremer.fr. 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2012.
  2. ↑ "Engines - Ifremer Fleet". flotte.ifremer.fr. 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2012.

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