State commission accepts delivery of 3050 project tender from Moscow Shipyard (photo release)
Moscow Shipyard (MSSZ) and the state commission on April 29, 2013 signed an acceptance certificate for the Puteiskiy 22, a buoy tender of Project 3050 (Hull No 210). The ship was built to RRR class "R 1.2" for the Moscow Canal, the shipbuilder’s news release said.
The tender will enter service shortly on a stretch of the upper Oka River, in Kaluga.
The vessel project was developed at LLC SCDB Rechflot under the State contract for upgrade of a fleet of tenders, work boats, a month ahead of schedule.
The vessel features a powerful deck crane to deploy buoys, navigational aids, to perform loading / unloading operations.
The Russian Federal Agency of Maritime and River Transport ordered a series of 27 modern buoy tenders. The boats are intended to serve and maintain navigational aids and for the depth control on the inland waterways of Russia.
Ship general characteristics: RRR class: "*R 1,2"; LOA - 23,50 m, beam - 3,65 m, draft - 0.67 m, full displacement - 39,2 tonnes, operational speed - 10.8 knots., endurance - 3 days, crew - 3.
JSC Moscow Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Yard (Moscow Shipyard, part of United Shipbuilding Corp.) is one of Russia's oldest shipyards founded in 1936. Throughout the years the shipyard has built more than 1,800 vessels with a total overall length of more than 52,000 meters. The firm specializes in building river passenger vessels, fishing boats and 25-m / 50-m-long luxury yachts. The full-cycle shipyard has in-house naval engineering office, hull fabrication, painting, electrical and mechanical assembly shops and interior design production. In September 2011, the shipyard commenced construction of high-speed multipurpose boats of Project MRV14 for Russian ports. Since that year the company has been building a series of 27 buoy tenders of Project 3050 and 12 of Project 3050.1 for inland waterways. In the autumn of 2012 the company began construction of on-board boats for the Russian Navy’s warships.
