CS Sovereign
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CS Sovereign is a class DP2 type cable ship used for subsea cable installation and repair works. The ship was designed by Hart Fenton & Company and built by Van der Giessen de Noord
in 1992 for BT Marine (Global Marine Systems
).
CS Sovereign has four cable tanks. Two main tanks have capacity of 1327 cubic metres (46,862.6 cu ft) or 2,668 tonnes each. Two wing tanks have capacity of 199 cubic metres (7,027.6 cu ft) or 432 tonnes each. The vessel is equipped with two hydraulic powered drums with 3.5 metres (11.5 ft) in diameter and four wheel pair haul-off gears.
Van der Giessen de Noord
Van der Giessen de Noord was a shipyard that mainly built ferries, located in Krimpen aan den IJssel, a town in the western Netherlands. The yard was especially suited to the construction of large vessels due to its developed undercover facilities....
in 1992 for BT Marine (Global Marine Systems
Global Marine Systems
Global Marine Systems is a specialist-shipping company that installs, maintains and repairs submarine communications and power cables.- History :...
).
CS Sovereign has four cable tanks. Two main tanks have capacity of 1327 cubic metres (46,862.6 cu ft) or 2,668 tonnes each. Two wing tanks have capacity of 199 cubic metres (7,027.6 cu ft) or 432 tonnes each. The vessel is equipped with two hydraulic powered drums with 3.5 metres (11.5 ft) in diameter and four wheel pair haul-off gears.
Main cable works
- 1992 – SAT-2 (CS Vercors laid the cable from MelkbosstrandMelkbosstrandMelkbosstrand is a coastal village and beach with just over 17000 inhabitants, located on the South West Coast of South Africa, 35 km north of Cape Town....
to the first branching unit; CS Sovereign laid the remainder) - 1995–1996 – TAT-12/13TAT-12/13TAT-12/13 is a ring cable system consisting of the 12th and 13th consortia transatlantic telephone cables, in operation from 1996, initially carrying 2 × 5 Gbit/s....
- 1999 – ESAT 2 (Ainsdale SandsAinsdaleAinsdale-on-Sea is a village in the borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England, situated three miles south of Southport, of which it is a suburb. At the 2001 Census it had a population of 12,723.-Prior to 1600:...
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) - 2006 – EstlinkEstlinkEstlink is a set of HVDC submarine cables between Estonia and Finland. Estlink 1 is the first interconnection between the Baltic and Nordic electricity markets following by Estlink 2 in 2014...
(power cable) - 2008 – BT LIBERTY (GuernseyGuernseyGuernsey, officially the Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British Crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy.The Bailiwick, as a governing entity, embraces not only all 10 parishes on the Island of Guernsey, but also the islands of Herm, Jethou, Burhou, and Lihou and their islet...
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) - 2010 - EMEC (power cable installation for various tidal and wave generators in Orkney IslandsOrkney IslandsOrkney also known as the Orkney Islands , is an archipelago in northern Scotland, situated north of the coast of Caithness...
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) - 2010/2011 - JUDY (power/fibre cable installation between oil/gas platforms in the North Sea)