Baltic Ace

Update 07.08.2015
Current Name Baltic Ace
Classification Society Det Norske Veritas
IMO 9386213
Call Sign C6WE8
Operator MOL (Mitsui O.S.K. Lines), Tokyo, Japan
Manager Stamco Ship Management Company Ltd., Piraeus, Greece
Owner 'BALTIC HIGHWAY' Limited, Douglas, Isle of Man, United Kingdom
Flag Bahamas
Port of Registry Nassau
Type of Ship car carrier
Completion 2007
Shipyard Stocznia Gdynia S.A., Gdynia, Poland
Building No. 8245/5
GT 23.498
DWT [t] 7.787
Overall Length [m] 147,93
Registered Breadth [m] 25,00
Maximum Draught [m] 7,90
Propulsion [KW] 9.170
Propulsion [BHP] 12.467
Speed [Kn] 18,9
Capacity Vehicles 2.130
Additional Information the ship sank December 5th 2012 following a collision with the container ship >CORVUS J< in the North Sea about 70 miles West of Rotterdam in position 51.51N, 02.54E. 13 crew were rescued with 6 missing and 5 dead. She was on passage from Zeebrugge for Kotka with 1,417 vehicles. Currently (since July 2015) she is being cut up, the refloated slices are transported for recycling at Vlaardingen (Netherlands) by Jansen Recycling.
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