FRV Clupea

FRV Clupea operating in a Scottish sea loch
History
Class and type: "Rescue" vessel
Name: Lifeline
Namesake: Clupea
Builder: Hall, Russell & Company, Aberdeen
Yard number: 940[1]
Laid down: 1968
Refit: 1988
Homeport: Amsterdam
Identification:
Fate: Sold
Notes: Ownership, Ship classification and Home Port documentation not in order as of June 2018, Lying at Malta
General characteristics
Displacement: 381.68 t (376 long tons)
Length: 32.1 m (105 ft 4 in)
Beam: 7.39 m (24 ft 3 in)
Draught: 3.51 m (11 ft 6 in)
Propulsion: Lister Blackstone ERS 8M 492 kW (660 hp)
Speed: 11.5 knots (13.2 mph; 21.3 km/h)
Endurance: 12 days
Complement: 16

FRV Clupea is a small, inshore fisheries research vessel, formerly of the Fisheries Research Services. She was based at the port of Fraserburgh and operated mainly on the Scottish west coast on behalf of the Scottish Executive.

History

Clupea was commissioned in 1968. Measuring 32 m (100 ft) and drawing 3.5 m (11 ft 6 in), she is a good size for conducting research inside the constricted space of a sea loch. For research in offshore areas and the North Sea, the larger, more modern, FRV Scotia is used.

Clupea has been replaced by FRV Alba-Na-Mara.[2] She has been sold to a private company.

the rebuilt Sea-Watch 2 leaving Hamburg in March 2016

In 2015 Clupea was sold to the German NGO Sea Watch, who has started a civil sea rescue service for refugees and migrants in the Mediterranean. The vessel was renamed Sea-Watch 2 in March 2016 and has been used for SAR missions. [3] In autumn 2016, the NGO 'Sea Watch' sold the ship to 'Mission Lifeline e.V.', a Service club based in Dresden. Its name now is Lifeline.[4] In June 2018, the Lifeline (with 239 migrants on board) is in the media as one of the ships being forbidden to enter an Italian harbour. Matteo Salvini, new Italian Minister of the Interior (Conte Cabinet), has ordered this blocking.[5]

Lifeline (21 June 2018)

Netherlands Minister Cora van Nieuwenhuizen declared in late June 2018, that the Lifeline does not operate under the Netherlands flag. According to the statement, the existing registration of the vessel with the Koninklijk Nederlands Watersport Verbond was only a proof of ownership, which did not make the Netherlands the Flag state for the Lifeline.[6]

Layout

Clupea is equipped with winches, reel drums and an A-frame, allowing her to tow a range of fishing gear. Deck cranes allow the deployment of water sampling equipment and benthic grabs.

As a small vessel requiring space for equipment and laboratories, Clupea can only accommodate four officers, six crew and six scientists, currently with more than two hundred aboard.

References

  1. ↑ "Clupea". Aberdeen Built Ships. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
  2. ↑ "FRV Clupea". Trawler photos. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "Sea-Watch buys new ship for SAR missions". Sea-Watch e.V. Retrieved 26 February 2016.
  4. ↑ mission-lifeline.de
  5. ↑ FAZ.net 24. Juni 2018: Weiteres Schiff mit Migranten wartet vor Italien auf Hafeneinfahrt
  6. ↑ "'Migrantenschip staat geregistreerd bij Nederlands Watersportverbond'". nos.nl. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
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