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Atlantic Osprey

History
Name: Atlantic Osprey
Operator: Atlantic Towing Limited
Port of registry: Halifax,  Canada
Builder: Halifax Shipyard
Completed: 2003
Identification: IMO number: 9255907
Status: Scrapped at Swansea, Wales
General characteristics
Tonnage: 3,453 Gross tons
Length: 80 m (262 ft 6 in)
Beam: 18 m (59 ft 1 in)
Draught: 6.6 m (21 ft 8 in)
Installed power: 4 × Bergen B32:40 diesel engines
Propulsion: 2 × Controllable pitch propellers
Speed: 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) (maximum)

The Atlantic Osprey is an anchor handling tug supply vessel (AHTS) vessel, launched 17 April 2003.

Built by Halifax Shipyard for operation by Atlantic Towing Limited, Atlantic Osprey is an Ulstein UT 722 L design intended for use in the offshore oil fields. With a 12 MW diesel engine, the 3453 gross tonne tug can transit at 16 knots (30 km/h).

In December 2005, it recovered the wreckage of a crashed Canadian Coast Guard helicopter near Marystown, Newfoundland.

It came to prominence as the vessel used to recover wreckage and bodies following the 12 March 2009 crash of Cougar Helicopters Flight 91.



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