MS Asterix
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| Name: | Asterix |
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| Operator: | Capital Ship Management (before October 2015) |
| Port of registry: |
 Liberia
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| Builder: | Nordic Yards Wismar |
| Yard number: | 147 |
| Laid down: | 21 October 2008 |
| Launched: | 27 January 2009 |
| Completed: | 1 May 2010 |
| In service: | 2010–2015 |
| Out of service: | October 2015–2017 |
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| Status: | Purchased for conversion to military supply ship by Davie on behalf of Government of Canada |
 Canada
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| Name: | Asterix |
| Acquired: | 2015 |
| Status: | Under conversion as of October 2015 by Davie Shipbuilding |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Type: | Container ship |
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| Length: | 182.52 m (598 ft 10 in) oa |
| Beam: | 25.2 m (82 ft 8 in) |
| Draught: | 9.5 m (31 ft 2 in) |
| Installed power: | MAN 7S60 MC-C Mk8, 16,660 kW (22,340 hp) |
| Propulsion: | 1 fixed propeller, 1 bow thruster |
| Speed: | 20.5 knots (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph) |
| Crew: | 24 |
| General characteristics (as converted) | |
| Type: | Auxiliary replenishment vessel |
| Displacement: | 26,000 tonnes (full load) |
| Length: | 182.5 m (598 ft 9 in) |
| Beam: | 25.2 m (82 ft 8 in) |
| Draught: | 7 m (23 ft 0 in) |
| Propulsion: | 2 engines |
| Speed: | Cruising: >21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
| Range: | >10,000 nmi (19,000 km) |
| Boats & landing craft carried: |
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| Complement: | 350 (HaDR) |
| Crew: | 150 |
| Armament: | 1 x Phalanx 20mm CIWS |
| Aircraft carried: |
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| Aviation facilities: | 1 landing spot and 2 hangars capable of holding Chinook size helicopters. |
MS Asterix (formerly MS Amorito, MS Neermoor and MS Cynthia) is a commercial containership, purchased by Federal Fleet Services as part of Project Resolve, that is being converted into a supply ship for the Royal Canadian Navy. It is intended to act as an interim replacement between the out of service Protecteur-class replenishment oiler and the future Queenston-class auxiliary vessel. Launched in Germany in 2010, the ship is being converted with planned delivery to the RCN around 2017 when it will be leased to the navy with a merchant navy crew.Asterix will be in Canadian service as Resolve well into the 2020s.
The ship was owned by Capital Ship Management of Greece and registered in Monrovia, Liberia. The vessel was delivered at Quebec in October 2015 awaiting conversion by a pan-consortium comprising Chantier Davie Canada,Aecon Pictou Shipyard of Pictou, Nova Scotia and NavTech, the conversion designer.
The ship was laid down on 21 October 2008 at the Nordic Yards Wismar in Wismar, Germany with the yard number 147. The ship was launched as Cynthia on 27 January 2009 and work was completed on the vessel on 1 May 2010. The ship was renamed Amorito in 2010. That same year the ship was renamed again to Neermoor, operating under an Antigua and Barbuda flag while owned by Briese Schiffahrts GmbH & Co KG. In 2013 the ship was renamed Asterix.
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