Moscow Shipyard lays down third serial vessel of project 14157 for RF Defence Ministry (photo)
On May 27, 2014, JSC Moscow Shipbuilding & Ship Repair Yard (MSSZ) laid keel of the third Diving Support Vessel of project 14157 for the Defence Ministry of Russia, the shipyard says in its press release.
The 14157-series DSV was designed for the support of diving operations at offshore anchorage, harbors and littoral zones at depths of up to 60 m.
The construction will be supervised by a team of RF Ministry of Defence.
Main specifications:
LOA (max) - 25.0 m
Breadth (max) - 4.8 m
Depth (max) - 3.3 m
Draft (about) - 1.4 m
Displacement (about) - 82.0 tons
Speed (about) - 12.0 knots.
The statement says that the hull of the first serial vessel of project 14157 is ready and will be launced in the nearest future.
JSC Moscow Shipbuilding & Ship Repair Yard (MSSZ) was founded in 1936 and is one of the oldest shipyards in Russia. Throughout the years the shipyard has built more than 1,800 vessels. The company specializes in construction of river passenger ships, fishing boats and 25-m / 50-m-long luxury yachts. The full-cycle shipyard has in-house design office, docks for hull repair, fabrication, painting, outfitting and interior manufacturing.
In 2010, the company commenced the construction of new generation cruise passenger ships. The shipyard is a subsidiary of the state-owned shipbuilding conglomerate United Shipbuilding Corporation. In September 2011, the shipyard launched the project of high-speed multipurpose cutters of MRV14 project for Russian ports. Since that year Moscow Shipyard is building the packages of 27 and 12 buoy tenders of project 3050 and 3050.1, respectively. In the autumn of 2012 the shipyard started construction of on-board boats for the Russian Navy.
Moscow Shipbuilding & Ship Repair Yard is to execute three forth of orders for construction of tender vessels of projects 3050, 3050.1 and 3052 under the sub-programme Inland Water Transport of the federal special-purpose programme Development of Russia’s Transport System through 2010-2015.
