CMA CGM Comoe

Update 27.03.2024
Current Name CMA CGM Comoe
Previous Name Rio Sao Francisco (completed)
Classification Society Germanischer Lloyd
IMO 9339868
Call Sign A8OE9
Operator CMA CGM (The French Line), Marseille, France
Manager MPC Münchmeyer Petersen Steamship GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany
Owner MS 'RIO SAO FRANCISCO' Privatplatzierung Schifffahrts GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany
Flag Liberia
Port of Registry Monrovia
Type of Ship full container ship
Completion 2008
Shipyard Zhejiang Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., Ningbo, P.R. China
Building No. 04128
GT 23.633
DWT [t] 27.155
Overall Length [m] 190,94
Registered Breadth [m] 28,50
Maximum Draught [m] 11,50
Propulsion [KW] 19.040
Propulsion [BHP] 25.887
Speed [Kn] 22,0
Capacity Containers [TEU] 2.007
Additional Information 1st ship of a series of identically constructed container ships (3 vessels) - equipped with 3 cranes of a lifting capacity of 45 ts each - in 2008 the ship was renamed >Rio Sao Francisco<, in 2013 >Esperanza N< and in 2021 >TSS Pearl< - the ship caught fire on October 5th 2022 in the aft container deck while in the Red Sea 80 miles SW of Al Qahma, Saudi Arabia at 17.33.30N 040.33.25E sailing from Jeddah to Aden. She lost power and drifted. The 25 crew were rescued by other vessels and she was abandoned, sinking to a water depth of around 1000 meters on October 13th 2022.
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