Turkey’s Directorate General of Coastal Safety has enhanced its emergency towage capabilities with the addition of its most powerful escort tug
Sanmar Shipyards delivered Kurtarma 15 with more than 90 tonnes of bollard pull, making it the most powerful tug the Turkish shipbuilder has ever built.
Directorate General of Coastal Safety will assist larger ships in distress to provide emergency towage and salvage using Kurtarma 15.
Sanmar built this 29.4-m escort tug to a Robert Allan Ltd (RAL) upgraded, RAstar 2900SX, design with Rolls-Royce Power Systems high-speed MTU engines.
Kurtarma 15 is powered by two 16-valve 4000 series M73L main engines, each producing 2,700 kW of power at 1,850 rpm, driving Schottel rudderpropellers in an azimuth stern drive (ASD) configuration.
Turkish Directorate General of Coastal Safety operates tugs for emergency response escort services and assistance towage in Turkish waters.
Kurtarma 15 is being introduced as larger ships transit the Turkish straits between the Mediterranean and Black seas more frequently, increasing the risk of collisions and groundings.
“The service Directorate General of Coastal Safety provides in Turkey’s coastal waters is vital,” said Sanmar vice president Ali Gurun. “At Sanmar, we are proud to provide them with a tough, technologically advanced, powerful new tug that is ideally suited to help them carry out these essential operations,” added.
“We have worked closely with both Directorate General of Coastal Safety and the designers to match and often exceed their specifications. Kurtarma 15 is an important project for us, and for the ongoing development and enhancement of this range of enormously powerful, yet manoeuvrable and extremely stable tugboats.”
The RAstar escort/offshore terminal tug designation is reserved for a distinctive class of ASD escort, coastal and harbour tugs, designed with RAL’s sponsoned hullform.
This hullform provides significantly enhanced escort towing performance due to the sponsons and the prominent foil-shaped escort skeg on the forward section of the hull.
Kurtarma 15 was built with a beam of 13.3 m and hull depth of 5.5 m. It has accommodation for 10 crew, has capacity to carry 169 m3 of fuel oil and features a Palfinger 18500MC marine grade hydraulic knuckle-boom folding boom deck crane.
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