MV Karadeniz Powership İrem Sultan
Karadeniz Powership İrem Sultan | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Liberia | |
| Name |
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| Owner |
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| Operator | Karpowership |
| Port of registry |
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| Builder | Fincantieri Marghera in Venice, Italy |
| Yard number | 305 |
| Laid down | November 1983 |
| Launched | 30 March 1984 |
| Completed | April 1984 |
| Homeport | Monrovia, Liberia |
| Identification |
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| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | |
| Tonnage | |
| Length | 157.75 m (517 ft 7 in) (LOA) |
| Beam | 29.00 m (95 ft 2 in) |
| Height | 5.31 m (17 ft 5 in) |
| Draught | 4.43 m (14 ft 6 in) |
| Installed power | 8,680 kW (11,640 hp) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 12.8 knots (23.7 km/h; 14.7 mph) |
| Capacity | 114 MW generation (as Powership) |
The MV Karadeniz Powership İrem Sultan is a Liberia-flagged Powership, a floating power plant, owned and operated by Karpowership. Built in 1984 by the Fincantieri Marghera Shipyard in Venice, Italy and christened MV Nikolay Markin, she sailed as a barge carrier under various names and flags until in 2014 she was converted into a powership at the Sedef Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey. She served in Nacala, Mozambique supplying electricity to Mozambique's power grid for land-locked Zambia. Currently, she serves in the Dominican Republic, and is stationed in Santo Domingo.