Stemat Spirit

Stemat Spirit cabling in Halfmoon bay, Heysham
Career
Name:	Stemat Spirit
Owner:	Stemat Marine Service, Netherlands
Operator:	Stemat Marine Services
Port of registry:	Rotterdam
Ordered:	2009
Builder:	Taizhou XingGang Shipbuilding, Taizhou, Jiangsu, China
Launched:	6 March 2010
Commissioned:	2010
Identification:	IMO number: 9496458
General characteristics
Tonnage:	4,102 tons
Length:	90.0 m
Beam:	28 m
Draught:	3.2 m
Installed power:	2 × Caterpillar 3512HD
Propulsion:	Stern thrusters: 2 x HPR 6111 Azimuth 1140 kW Bow thruster: 2 x Caterpillar 3512B
Speed:	9 knots (17 km/h; 10 mph)
Capacity:	60

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

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