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Photographer:
Andreas Spörri [ View profile ]
Captured:
Jun 2, 2010
Title:
Philadelphia
Location:
Suez Canal, Egypt
Photo Category:
Casualties
Added:
Jan 6, 2011
Views:
3,189
Image Resolution:
1,280 x 855

Description:

Pusher Philadelphia, IMO 8001191, mit Integrated Tug Barge Philadelhia, IMO 8641719 am 02.06.10 im Grossen Bittersee

Pusher Philadelphia
IMO: 8001191
Baujahr: 1983
Bauwerft, Nummer: Halter Marine, Mobile 926
Länge: 40.8m
Breite: 27.5m
Vermessung: 1442 GT
Flagge: USA
Verbleib: 2010 Abbruch in indien

Barge Piladephia
IMO: 8641719
Baujahr: 1984
Bauwerft: Betlehem Steel
Länge: 213m
Breite: 27.5m
Tragfähigkeit: 47247 Tonnen
Vermessung: 22470 GT

On May 18 in Suez Channel collided Japanese boxship Rhein Bridge and US tug and barge Philadelphia, due to either boxship wrong manoeuvre or steering gear fail. Boxship damaged in fore part, towed to Suez. Barge got a hole, oil spill. Barge and tug anchored in Great Bitter Lakes area. Barge and tug were enroute Saudi Arabia – Lybia, boxship was on the way from Canada to Singapore.

Vessel
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Current name:
PHILADELPHIA
IMO:
8001191
Status:
Dead
Build year:
1983
Builder:
Halter Marine Chickasaw - Chickasaw Al, U.s.a.
Vessel Type:
Articulated Pusher Tug
Gross tonnage:
2,438 tons
Summer DWT:
488 tons
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32 photos by 12 photographers

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Tugs - 10 photos

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Casualties - 1 photos

Ships under Repair or Conversion - 2 photos

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Photographers
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Jim Gallacher

2 photos

Daniel Ferro

4 photos

Marc Piché

5 photos

foggy

4 photos

Tord Avsnes S

1 photos

Andreas Spörri

1 photos

Magpaw

2 photos

daveinnola

1 photos

Jörn Prestien

4 photos

Saulius Eimutis

2 photos

J J Fernandez

4 photos

Paul Sullivan

2 photos

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I worked as 3rd Engineer aboard the Philly and broke her out of the mothballs prior to this trip. In in fact the picture of her tied to the Mobile I was working there the day that was taken. As for the question of how the barge connected to the tug. The barge had a "tongue" that the catamaran hull of the tug locked into. Two big hydraulic link pins on the tug sat in cradles on the barge linking them together. It moved in seas just like a ship.

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I know that she and the MOBILE were laid up a long time on the mississippi river. then the philadelphia was gone, mid last year,, if sold for scrpping, no idea there

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.....collided with the US flag integrated tug/barge Philadelphia, which was en route Saudi Arabia for Libya.
source: http://tugfaxblogspotcom.blogspot.com/2010/05/philadelphia.html

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Wasn't the PHILADELPHIA on her way to the scrapyard in India? I know that at least a few of these tug-barge combinations have been sold for scrap recently (example: BALTIMORE, IMO#8001189).

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IDNo: 8001191 Year: 1983
Name: PHILADELPHIA Keel:
Type: Tug Launch Date:
Flag: USA Date of completion:

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Tons: 1443 Link: 3063
DWT: Yard No: 926
Length overall: 40.8 Ship Design:
LPP: 38.4 Country of build: USA
Beam: 27.5 Builder: Halter Marine
Material of build: Location of yard: Mobile
Number of
screws/Mchy/
Speed(kn): 2D-15.5

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To my knowledge this ships is now as one unit. they do not operate anymore as tug and barge. Somone on the mississippi river explained me that the tug connects in the back into a recess, then lowers down by hydraulic power
on this one and the sister MOBILE, they are welded now together as I understood it, permanent.

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