MSC Bhavya was built at the Hyundai Samho Industries, South Korea. The ship yard was contracted to build the ship June 2003 and the Keel was laid April 2005 and finally completed August 2005. Since she has been on the water she has change names many times.
During the afternoon the winds picked up to a brisk 18-25 knot south westerly. The pilot boarded the Bhavya from the shore side. 2 tugs were required for departure as the pilot would be battling the wind off the berth. Felixstowe's most powerful tugs Vietnamese built Damen ASD 3212 tugs Svitzer Deben and Svitzer Kent paddled up from the tug pontoon to assist with the departure.
Svitzer Deben was made fast on the centre lead aft while the Svitzer Kent was made fast on the centre lead forward. The pilot radioed Harwich VTS to ask for permission to single up and break away from Felixstowe berth 5. MSC Bhavya was given clearance to depart. Both tugs pulled straight off at 25% then increased up to 50%. With the wind pushing on the starboard side the pilot needed more power from the tugs so they increased to 75% then up to full. Finally she began to edge away from the berth.
The pilot gives a kick astern on the main engine while giving some starboard helm to bring the bow towards the North Shelf.
After coming ahead on the main engine the pilot gets the Kent to ease up and come in to let go. The Kent breaks away on to the Felixstowe side while the Deben comes in astern ready to let go.
Once gone and clear the Deben slowly makes her way over to Trinity berths where they done some handling training.
The pilot slowly increase speed as he travels along the Shelf towards the 90deg Beach End turn out of the harbour.
LoA 294.14 metres
Breadth 32.3 metres
Capacity 5042TEU
Maximum draft 13.65 metres
Gross tonnage: 54771t
Deadweight: 66799t
Main Engine: Wartsila NSD Sulzer 9RTA96C-B rated 51480kW
Other Engines
x2 MAN-B&W 8L27/38 rated at 2280kW
x2 MAN-B&W 6L27/38 rated at 1710kW
Bow thruster rated at 2100kw
A crew of 28
Nationalities of the crew -- Indian, Romanian and Russian.
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