LAVAUX bulk carrier
Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 2:32 am
75 years of the Swiss merchant fleet
The idea of creating a Swiss flag was first raised in around 1860, by Swiss expats in the Mediterranean region who no longer wanted to travel under a foreign flag. However, the idea initially floundered. When Prussia and France opposed it, the Federal Council bowed to the pressure. Besides, back then nobody could agree whether a landlocked state was permit- ted to have its own flag. It was not until a conference of the League of Nations in Barcelona in 1921 that states without a maritime coastline were granted the right to have their own flags. This right was ratified in 1958 in the Geneva Con- vention on the High Seas and then again in 1982 in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
During World War Two, the Confedera- tion was economically reliant on ship- ping space to supply the country with es- sentials. The then Office of War Transport managed to charter 15 ships under the Greek flag. After Italy attacked Greece in October 1940, the ships were no longer able to sail on the Mediterranean: and so the Swiss flag was born. The Federal
Council entrusted Basel-based Professor Rudolf Haab with the task of establishing a legal basis for the creation of Switzer- land’s own flag at sea. In the space of six months, the draft was complete. The Fed- eral Council passed the draft in April 1941 under a state of emergency law and, before the month was out, maritime mer- chant ship ss CALANDA became the first to fly the flag.
Swiss merchant ships are operated not by the Swiss Confederation, but by private shipowners. They remain under the pro- tection of Switzerland, whose flag they fly. In return, the government is entitled to commandeer the ships at times of cri- sis or emergency to ensure the country’s economic needs are met. Thus our flag is motivated not by competition or prestige; rather, Switzerland owes its flag solely to the desire to ensure economic supplies for the nation at times of crisis or in emer- gencies.
Reto Dürler, Head of the Swiss Maritime Navigation Office SMNO
http://wopa-stamps.com/index.php?contro ... e&id=25188
0.85HCF LAVAUX bulk carrier.
1.00 HCF LUGANO bulk carrier.
1.50 HCF LAUSANNE container vessel.
2.00 HCF MCT STOCKHORN chemical- production tanker.
The LAVAUX was built as a bulk carrier under yard No H 1004 by Shinan Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., Jido, South Korea for Oceana Shipping AG., Renes, Switserland.
Launched as the LAVAUX.
Tonnage 22,697 grt, 11,603 nrt, 34,000 dwt., dim. 181 x 30 x 14.6m., length bpp. 172m, draught 9.8m.
Powered by one MAN-B&W diesel engine, 11,658 hp (8,580 kW), one shaft, speed 12 knots.
Five holds with a total cargo capacity of 47,090 m³.
29 May 2010 completed under Swiss flag and registry.
2016 In service, same name and owners, managed by Suisse-Atlantique, Renes, Switserland. IMO No 9542817.
Switserland 2016 0.80 HCF sg?, scott?
Source: Internet and Bureau Veritas.
The idea of creating a Swiss flag was first raised in around 1860, by Swiss expats in the Mediterranean region who no longer wanted to travel under a foreign flag. However, the idea initially floundered. When Prussia and France opposed it, the Federal Council bowed to the pressure. Besides, back then nobody could agree whether a landlocked state was permit- ted to have its own flag. It was not until a conference of the League of Nations in Barcelona in 1921 that states without a maritime coastline were granted the right to have their own flags. This right was ratified in 1958 in the Geneva Con- vention on the High Seas and then again in 1982 in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
During World War Two, the Confedera- tion was economically reliant on ship- ping space to supply the country with es- sentials. The then Office of War Transport managed to charter 15 ships under the Greek flag. After Italy attacked Greece in October 1940, the ships were no longer able to sail on the Mediterranean: and so the Swiss flag was born. The Federal
Council entrusted Basel-based Professor Rudolf Haab with the task of establishing a legal basis for the creation of Switzer- land’s own flag at sea. In the space of six months, the draft was complete. The Fed- eral Council passed the draft in April 1941 under a state of emergency law and, before the month was out, maritime mer- chant ship ss CALANDA became the first to fly the flag.
Swiss merchant ships are operated not by the Swiss Confederation, but by private shipowners. They remain under the pro- tection of Switzerland, whose flag they fly. In return, the government is entitled to commandeer the ships at times of cri- sis or emergency to ensure the country’s economic needs are met. Thus our flag is motivated not by competition or prestige; rather, Switzerland owes its flag solely to the desire to ensure economic supplies for the nation at times of crisis or in emer- gencies.
Reto Dürler, Head of the Swiss Maritime Navigation Office SMNO
http://wopa-stamps.com/index.php?contro ... e&id=25188
0.85HCF LAVAUX bulk carrier.
1.00 HCF LUGANO bulk carrier.
1.50 HCF LAUSANNE container vessel.
2.00 HCF MCT STOCKHORN chemical- production tanker.
The LAVAUX was built as a bulk carrier under yard No H 1004 by Shinan Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., Jido, South Korea for Oceana Shipping AG., Renes, Switserland.
Launched as the LAVAUX.
Tonnage 22,697 grt, 11,603 nrt, 34,000 dwt., dim. 181 x 30 x 14.6m., length bpp. 172m, draught 9.8m.
Powered by one MAN-B&W diesel engine, 11,658 hp (8,580 kW), one shaft, speed 12 knots.
Five holds with a total cargo capacity of 47,090 m³.
29 May 2010 completed under Swiss flag and registry.
2016 In service, same name and owners, managed by Suisse-Atlantique, Renes, Switserland. IMO No 9542817.
Switserland 2016 0.80 HCF sg?, scott?
Source: Internet and Bureau Veritas.