RV Barbaros Hayreddin Paşa
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 Turkey
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| Owner: | Turkish Petroleum Corp. (TPAO) |
| Operator: | Turkish Petroleum Corp. (TPAO) |
| Builder: | Drydocks World Dubai, UAE |
| Launched: | February 16, 2011 |
| Completed: | March 2, 2011 |
| Homeport: | Istanbul |
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| Status: | In active service as survey ship |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Seismographic research ship |
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| Length: | 84.20 m (276 ft 3 in) |
| Beam: | 17 m (55 ft 9 in) |
| Draft: | 6.70 m (22 ft 0 in) (max.) |
| Installed power: | 4 x 3,060 kW (4,100 hp) |
| Propulsion: | 4 x Wärtsilä 9L26 Diesel-electric engine |
| Speed: | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) (service) |
| Armament: | None |
| Aircraft carried: | Sikorsky S-92 |
| Aviation facilities: | 1x helideck |
The RV Barbaros Hayreddin Paşa is a Turkish seismographic research/survey vessel owned and operated by the Turkish Petroleum Corp. (TPAO). Built in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and launched in 2011, she was purchased in 2013 and renamed in honor of the renowned Ottoman Navy admiral Barbarossa Hayreddin Pasha (1478-1546).
The ship was built at Drydocks World Dubai for Polarcus, a Dubai-based marine geophysical company in the UAE. She was launched on February 16, 2011 joining the company's same class fleet as the fourth vessel, and was christened Polarcus Samur for Arabic female given name meaning "swift, fleet". She was delivered on March 2, 2011, commissioned under the flag of the Bahamas and sailed to its first mission to serve for Namibia in charter.
The ship was acquired in December 2012 by the Turkish state-owned oil and gas company TPAO to an amount of US$130 million for use in marine seismographic surveys, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yıldız said on January 30, 2013. The sale includes a collaboration arrangement with Polarcus company for support service in seismic data acquisition, fast-track data processing, management and crewing for the vessel over a three-year period. After repainted in red and white at Desan Shipyard in Tuzla, Istanbul, reflagged and renamed to Barbaros Hayreddin Paşa, she was commissioned on February 23, 2013 by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. In the beginning, she will operate in a region around 60–70 km (37–43 mi) far from Bosporus in western Black Sea. Later, she will continue with surveys in the Mediterranean Sea for oid and gas field exploration.
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