RV St. Barbara

History
Name: RV St. Barbara
Owner: Mili Shipping Company, Ltd
Builder: Cochrane and Sons, Selby
Yard number: 1574
Launched: 1977
Identification: IMO number: 7406021
Status: to be scrapped
General characteristics
Class and type: Research vessel
Tonnage:
Length: 78.9 m (259 ft)
Beam: 13.7 m (45 ft)
Draught: 5 m (16 ft)
Speed:
  • 9.5 kn (10.9 mph) (max)
  • 7 kn (8.1 mph) (average)

RV St. Barbara is a research vessel belonging to the Cypriot Mili Shipping Company, Ltd. Measuring 78.9 m in length with a 13.7 m beam, the St. Barbara is most noted for discovering the 265 meter long wreck of the famed Graf Zeppelin on 12 July 2006 near the port of Łeba. She was last engaged in Geotechnical and exploratory work for the Polish oil company Petrobaltic and is now scheduled to be scrapped in Liepāja where she arrived August 16, 2017.

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