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''Dockwise Vanguard'' is a semi-submersible heavy lift ship owned and operated by Dockwise B.V. The ''Vanguard'' is the largest vessel of its type ever built, and is able to carry cargoes up to 110,000 tonnes.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Offshore Technology Conference )〕 The ''Vanguard'' was designed to move offshore oil and gas facilities, but can also carry other ships and act as an offshore dry dock facility.〔 As offshore oil and gas facilities have grown in size, Dockwise saw a market for a ship that could carry the largest floating oil rigs to their destinations, reducing time and costs of transportation and allowing rigs to be built economically in a shipyard. In conjunction with Finland based Deltamarin,〔 they designed a ship called the ''Type-0 heavy lift vessel'', later renamed ''Dockwise Vanguard'' following an in-house competition won by Gerry Sarlis and Anthony van Ginkel.〔 In 2014 Dockwise started a feasibility study into a larger successor to the ''Vanguard''. ==Design== The ''Vanguard'' has a flat bow-less deck measuring , allowing cargo longer and wider than the deck. Her deck is 70% larger than the MV ''Blue Marlin'', the second largest heavy lift ship. The bridge and living area superstructure is situated at the far starboard side, and the deck also contains four movable buoyancy casings.〔 (google canched copy )〕 The watertight deck allows water to flow over the deck without risking the ship.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.offshorekinematics.com/vanguard/page/drawing-board.html )〕 The ''Vanguard'' is semi-submersible allowing her to lift ships or rigs out of the water, and to place them into water. When her ballast tanks are flooded, her deck lies up to below the surface, allowing her to handle deep draught cargoes. Loads can then be floated above her, and her ballast tanks emptied allowing her to lift and transport cargoes up to 110,000 tonnes, 50% more than the ''Blue Marlin''.〔 She can also be loaded from a dock side, and large cargoes loaded by skidding them on tracks.〔 The ''Vanguard'' can accommodate a crew of 40,〔 and on her maiden voyage will be captained by Oleg Maryasov.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.heavyliftpfi.com/content/NewsItem.aspx?id=4858 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dockwise Vanguard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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