Sir Eric Sharp (cable ship)

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Built as CS Sir Eric Sharp for Cable & Wireless (Marine) Ltd. and used for cable repair in the Atlantic under the ACMA (Atlantic Cable Maintenance Agreement), based at Hamilton, Bermuda. Cable handling equipment consists of two hydraulic 3.5 m diameter drum engines and an 18 wheel pair, hydraulic linear cable engine. Fitted with one bow and one stern sheave and three cable tanks with a capacity of 1416 cubic metres or 1700 tonnes of cable. Storage for 45 repeaters was also provided. Fitted with ROV 128 for buried cable maintenance.

In June 1999, along with the rest of the fleet, purchased by Global Crossing Inc. A separate and totally independent company, Global Marine Systems Ltd., was set up to carry out cable laying and maintenance.

In 2004 Global Crossing sold Global Marine Systems to Bridgehouse Marine. Of the vessels transferred, Sir Eric Sharp was one of three offered for sale and was purchased by International Telecom and renamed IT Intrepid. International Telecom's ships are based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia.


CABLE WORK AS SIR ERIC SHARP

1989 PTAT I Shore ends
( With CS Cable Protector & CS Northern)
1989 UK - Holland 12
(With CS Flexservice III)
1996 CJFS Cayman Islands - Jamaica
It was intended to use CS Mercury to lay this cable, but a fire in Mercury’s engine room, while at Bristol, prevented it.

CABLE WORK AS IT INTREPID

2006 Fibralink: Jamaica - Dominican Republic
Ocho Rios - Montego Bay, Jamaica
Cable repair Sunoque cable Gulf of St. Lawrence Canada
Cable Repair, BICS Segment 6 Freeport Bahamas
Cable Repair, Globenet Cable system, New Jersey USA
Relay and reburial of 100km of the Globenet system, New Jersey
2007 900 km Ploughing of the Persona Eastern Canada System
800 km Ploughing of the Shefa 2 cable system, Faroes, Orkney, Shetlands and Scotland
Installing cable to the Clair and Shallion British Petroleum rigs
Installation of the 4 domestic segments - Inter Faroes Islands
Standby maintenance for the 22,000 km Globenet system. USA, Bermuda, Venezuela, Brazil
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Bermuda SG621

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Built in 1987-'88 by Swan Hunter, Wallsend, #128, for Cable & Wireless Ltd.
Cable Layer, Gt:6133, Nt:1838, Dw:3523, Loa:115m. B:18m. D:10,10m. Draught:6,30m.
2-12RKCM Ruston diesels:6001 hp. 2 E.M. each 2991 hp. (2200 kW.) 13½ kn. 1 bowthruster:750 kW. 1 sternthruster:750 Kw.) oilbunkers:743m³. crew:76, IMO.8710871.
(Bermuda 1990, $2,- StG.621; Cayman Islands 1997, 25 c. StG.849)
LR97/98 + Cable Lay & Maintenance Vessels of the World.