LE Samuel Beckett

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LE Samuel Beckett in 2014
History
Ireland
Name LE Samuel Beckett
Namesake Samuel Beckett , Irish playwright and author [2]
Ordered October 2010 [3]
Builder Babcock Marine Appledore , North Devon [3] [8]
Cost €71 million [6] [7]
Laid down 19 May 2012 [5]
Launched November 2013 [1]
Acquired January 2014 [2]
Commissioned 17 May 2014 [4]
Identification
Status in active service
General characteristics
Class and type Samuel Beckett -class offshore patrol vessel
Displacement 2,256 tonnes Standard [8]
Length 90.00 m (295.28 ft) [8]
Beam 14.00 m (45.93 ft) [1]
Draught 3.8 m (12 ft)
Installed power 10,000 kW (13,000 hp) [9]
Propulsion 2 x Wartsila diesel engines [9]
Speed
  • 15 kn (28 km/h; 17 mph) cruise
  • 23 kn (43 km/h; 26 mph) maximum [8]
Range 6,000 nmi (11,000 km; 6,900 mi) [8]
Boats & landing
craft carried 		3 MST 8 m (26 ft) RHIBS [ citation needed ]
Complement 54 (44 crew + 10 trainees) [13]
Armament
Aviation facilities UAV capabilities only [10] [11] [12]

LE Samuel Beckett (P61) is a Samuel Beckett -class offshore patrol vessel (OPV) of the Irish Naval Service . The ship was launched in November 2013 and commissioned in May 2014. [4] She is named after Irish playwright and author Samuel Beckett . [2]

Like other OPVs in the Irish Naval Service, the ship's primary mission is fisheries protection , search and rescue , and maritime protection operations, including vessel boardings . [8]

Development [ edit ]

Design [ edit ]

In October 2010, the Irish Naval Service ordered a number of new offshore patrol vessels from Babcock Marine , a UK -based shipbuilder operating out of Appledore, North Devon . The first two vessels were named Samuel Beckett and James Joyce respectively, and planned to replace LE  Emer (decommissioned September 2013; sold October 2013 [14] ) and Aoife (decommissioned January 2015; commissioned in the Maritime Squadron of the Armed Forces of Malta June 2015). [3]

Like the Roisin -class OPV, Samuel Beckett was designed by Vard Marine [15] to a VARD 7 series design. [16] [ failed verification ] Although similar to the Roisin -class OPV, Samuel Beckett is over 10 metres (33 ft) longer, intended to increase its capabilities in the rough waters of the North Atlantic. The ship is designed to carry a crew of 44 and have space for up to 10 trainees. [8]

Additionally, Samuel Beckett is designed to carry remotely operated submersibles and a decompression chamber for divers. The expanded deck area would allow the ship to deploy unmanned surveillance planes . [17]

Construction and naming [ edit ]

Although the ship was built using modern modular construction techniques, the keel was deemed to have been "laid down" during a keel-laying ceremony held at the Appledore Shipbuilding Yard on 19 May 2012 after the first two major components were connected together. [5] [15]

In July 2013, while still under construction, the name of the vessel, Samuel Beckett was announced by the Minister for Defence Alan Shatter in Dail Eireann . [18]

Propulsion [ edit ]

The ship is powered by a pair of 16-cylinder W16V26F Wartsila diesel motors driving twin shafts that can propel the vessel to a top speed of 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph). [19] The ship is also equipped with dynamic positioning systems and a power take-in (PTI) drive, to enable fuel savings as the main engines can be shut down and switched to alternative power sources such as stored battery power or a smaller more economical engine. [17]

Operational history [ edit ]

The ship was completed and floated out of the shipyard in November 2013, [1] [20] [21] delivered in April 2014 and commissioned for service in May 2014. [4] The vessel was "twinned" with Cork city in a ceremony held on 7 June 2014. [22]

In late 2015 Samuel Beckett was deployed to the Mediterranean as part of Ireland's contribution to the humanitarian response to the European migrant crisis . During the ship's cruise, more than 1,000 migrants were rescued. [23] In one event, 111 people were rescued in a United Nations operation off the coast of Libya . [24]

The vessel was redeployed to the area in 2016, and on 17 November 2016 rescued 50 migrants who were on a rubber boat 25 Nautical Miles North-west of Tripoli . This brought the number of migrants rescued by the Samuel Beckett to 2310. [25]

In March 2020 the Naval Service provided the vessel to the HSE as a testing centre to be docked at Sir John Rogerson's Quay as part of Irish response to the coronavirus pandemic . [26]

References [ edit ]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to IMO 9614660 .
  1. ^ a b c "Irish vessel launched from Appledore shipyard" . North Devon Gazette . Archant Community Media Ltd. 4 November 2013 . Retrieved 1 December 2013 .
  2. ^ a b c Barry, Aoife (11 July 2013). "Goodbye LE Emer and LE Aoife… hello James Joyce and Samuel Beckett" . TheJournal.ie . Retrieved 1 December 2013 .
  3. ^ a b c d "Unnamed Class Offshore Patrol Vessels, Republic Of Ireland" (PDF) . Association of Retired Commissioned Officers . Autumn 2011 . Retrieved 1 December 2013 . [ permanent dead link ]
  4. ^ a b c " "Pride and anticipation" as LE Samuel Beckett vessel commissoned" . The Irish Independent . 17 May 2014 . Retrieved 17 May 2014 .
  5. ^ a b "Department of Defence - Press Releases" . Defence.ie. 18 May 2012 . Retrieved 1 December 2013 .
  6. ^ "New Naval Service ship to be called LE William Butler Yeats" (Press release). Department of Defence . Retrieved 9 January 2016 .
  7. ^ "Chiefs defend sending LE Samuel Beckett to arms fair" . RTE.ie . 12 September 2017.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h "Babcock's Appledore to build fourth Irish offshore patrol vessel" . Naval Today. 16 June 2016.
  9. ^ a b "Fleet > Offshore Patrol Vessel > L.E. Samuel Beckett P 61" . Irish Defence Forces (official) . Retrieved 29 December 2014 .
  10. ^ "Navy ships to carry deep sea robot subs" . Irish Examiner . 24 May 2012. will carry unmanned planes along with deep sea search and rescue robot submarines
  11. ^ "City welcomes state-of-the-art Navy vessel Le Samuel Beckett" . Irish Examiner . 7 June 2014. its expanded deck area will allow the Naval Service to deploy unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, for the first time
  12. ^ "Naval Service Showcase L.E. Samuel Beckett at OPV Conference" . Afloat Magazine . 30 September 2014. she is to feature (UAV) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for surveillenace purposes
  13. ^ "Babcock displays Irish OPV at DSEI" . ADS Advance . ADS Group. 10 September 2013 . Retrieved 1 December 2013 .
  14. ^ "Navy's retired LE Emer sells for €320,000 to businessman" . The Irish Times . 23 October 2013 . Retrieved 1 December 2013 .
  15. ^ a b "Vard Marine - News Headlines" . Stxmarine.net. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013 . Retrieved 1 December 2013 .
  16. ^ "Offshore Patrol Vessels ? VARD 7 SERIES" . Vard Marine . Retrieved 24 September 2016 .
  17. ^ a b O'Riordan, Sean (24 May 2012). "Navy ships to carry deep sea robot subs" . Irish Examiner . Retrieved 9 January 2016 .
  18. ^ "Houses of the Oireachtas - Naval Service Vessels" . Oireachtas (Hansard).
  19. ^ "Naval Service Showcase L.E. Samuel Beckett at OPV Conference" . Afloat Magazine . Retrieved 30 September 2014 .
  20. ^ "Naval Service OPV Newbuild L.E. Samuel Beckett 'Floated-Out' from Devon Shipyard" . Afloat Magazine . Baily Publications Ltd. 13 November 2013 . Retrieved 1 December 2013 .
  21. ^ Riegel, Ralph (28 August 2013). "New life as luxury liner or research ship awaits navy's oldest vessel" . The Irish Independent . Retrieved 1 December 2013 .
  22. ^ English, Eoin (26 May 2014). "Navy's €50m ship to twin with Cork" . Irish Examiner . Retrieved 26 May 2014 .
  23. ^ "LE Samuel Beckett docks in Cork after Med tour" . Raidio Teilifis Eireann. 17 December 2015 . Retrieved 9 January 2016 .
  24. ^ "Number of Balkans states limit migrant passage" . Raidio Teilifis Eireann. 19 January 2015 . Retrieved 9 January 2016 .
  25. ^ "LE Samuel Beckett naval heroes rescue dozens of migrant women and children" . 18 November 2016 . Retrieved 20 November 2016 .
  26. ^ Roche, Barry (18 March 2020). "Coronavirus: Naval ships to become test centres; Pairc Ui Chaoimh also offered" . The Irish Times . Retrieved 21 March 2020 .
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