Sedna Desgagnés

Sedna Desgagnés is a Beluga E/F type cargo ship built in China from 2007 to 2009 and entered service with the Canadian shipping line Groupe Desgagnés in 2009. The television series High Arctic Haulers followed the vessel as she made the annual deliveries of supplies to a series of communities in Canada's Arctic Archipelago, during the short shipping season. The vessel also sails on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway and is in service.

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Sedna Desgagnés
History
Name
  • Beluga Festivity
  • Sedna Desgagnés
OperatorGroupe Desgagnés
Port of registryCanada Quebec City
BuilderQingshan, Wuhan
Yard number20060304
Laid down16 November 2007
Launched12 May 2008
Completed23 February 2009
In service2009
Identification
StatusIn service
General characteristics
TypeBeluga E/F cargo ship
Tonnage
Length
  • 139 m (456 ft 0 in) oa
  • 130.7 m (428 ft 10 in) pp
Beam21 m (68 ft 11 in)
Draught8 m (26 ft 3 in)
Installed power
Propulsion
Speed15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph)
Capacity
  • 665 TEU
  • 15,953 m3 (563,400 cu ft)

Description

Designated a multi-purpose dry cargo ship by Groupe Desgagnés, Sedna Desgagnés is a Beluga E/F type vessel. The cargo ship is measured at 9,611 gross tonnage (GT) and 12,612 tons deadweight (DWT).[1][2] Sedna Desgagnés is 139 m (456 ft 0 in) long overall, 130.7 m (428 ft 10 in) between perpendiculars with a beam of 21 m (68 ft 11 in) and a draught of 8 m (26 ft 3 in).[2][3]

The ship is powered by a single MAK Caterpillar 6M43C diesel engine turning one shaft creating 5,400 kW (7,200 hp). The vessel is equipped with three auxiliary engines/generators of 395 kW (530 hp) each and one bow thruster of 500 kW (670 hp). Sedna Desgagnés has a maximum speed of 15.5 knots (28.7 km/h; 17.8 mph) and has a consumption of 23 t (23 long tons; 25 short tons) of IFO 380 fuel per day.[3]

Sedna Desgagnés has a monohull that is strengthened to carry shipping containers has capacity for 665 TEU and 15,953 m3 (563,400 cu ft) of dry goods.[3] The vessel has three cargo holds[4] and two cranes each capable of lifting 180 t (180 long tons; 200 short tons) but can be twinned for a total lifting capability of 360 t (350 long tons; 400 short tons). The vessel is rated as DNV-GL - 100A5 E3, equivalent to Lloyd's 100A1 Ice Class 1A.[3]

Construction and career

The ship's keel was laid down on 16 November 2007 at Qingshan Shipyard in Wuhan, China with the yard number 20060304. The vessel was launched on 12 May 2008 and completed on 23 February 2009.[2] When completed the vessel was named Beluga Festivity.[4] That year, the vessel was renamed Sedna Desgagnés,[2] registered in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada[3] with the IMO number 9402093, call sign CYQE and MMSI number 314296000.[1][3][lower-alpha 1] The ship entered service in 2009.[3]

Sedna Desgagnés ran aground in the St. Lawrence Seaway, near Prescott, Ontario, on 14 October 2012.[4][5] Carrying a cargo of pig iron, the cargo had to be shifted to a lighter before the vessel could be freed by two tugs on 20 October.[4]

The television series High Arctic Haulers followed the vessel as she made the annual deliveries of supplies to a series of communities in Canada's Arctic Archipelago, during the short shipping season. [6][7]

In June 2021, Sedna Desgagnés performed the first voyage of a new container feeder service between the ports of Montreal, Quebec and Hamilton, Ontario.[8]

Notes
  1. Equasis has the vessel registered in Barbados with the call sign 8PVW.[1]

Citations
  1. Equasis.
  2. Miramar Ship Index.
  3. Sedna.
  4. Boatnerd.
  5. "Cargo ship runs aground in St. Lawrence Seaway". CTV News. 14 October 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2020. The Transportation Safety Board says a vessel named the M.V. Sedna Desgagne was stranded just after 8 a.m. Sunday while passing near a bridge in the southeastern Ontario town.
  6. "The sealift is a critical part of survival in remote Arctic communities". CBC News. 20 November 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2020. The Sedna is one of several cargo ships that race against time to reach isolated Arctic communities who rely on them for everything from diapers to construction machinery.
  7. David, Greg (3 January 2010). "Preview: Cut-off Canadian communities rely on High Arctic Haulers". TV-eh. Retrieved 7 January 2020. Filmed in Nunavut, High Arctic Haulers kicks off in the ice-choked Ungava Bay, where the Sedna Desgagnés is trapped. Surrounded by icebergs and growlers, Captain Michel Duplain and his first mate, Simon Charest, attempt to shake free of the ice.
  8. "New container ship service sets sail between Hamilton and Montreal" (Press release). Hamilton-Oshawa Port Authority. 3 June 2021. Retrieved 11 June 2021 – via newswire.ca.

References
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