414N is a river
tank ship
A tanker (or tank ship or tankship) is a ship designed to transport or store liquids or gases in bulk. Major types of tankship include the oil tanker, the chemical tanker, and gas carrier. Tankers also carry commodities such as vegetable oils ...
class, developed in
Russia
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in 1962. The class 414 is one of the classes of the
SPN
SPN may refer to:
Places
* Saipan International Airport (IATA airport code: SPN), Saipan
* Shahjahanpur railway station (station code: SPN), Uttar Pradesh, India
* Spooner Row railway station (National Rail station code: SPN), South Norfolk, Engla ...
ship project.
These tankers have capacity of 600
ton
Ton is the name of any one of several units of measure. It has a long history and has acquired several meanings and uses.
Mainly it describes units of weight. Confusion can arise because ''ton'' can mean
* the long ton, which is 2,240 pounds
...
s
and are used for oil transportation on the superficial rivers of
Siberia
Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive region, geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a ...
(basically
Lena River).
SPN-673
This
tanker belonged to the Kirenskaya repair-operational base in
Kirensk
Kirensk ( rus, Киренск, p=ˈkʲirʲɪnsk) is a town and the administrative center of Kirensky District in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Kirenga and Lena Rivers, north of Irkutsk, the administrative center of th ...
and was equipped for oil transportation.
The captain of the vessel at the moment of incident was Bulgakov Victor Vasilevich.
On October 13, 2009, the tanker, carrying a cargo of 496 tons of
diesel fuel
Diesel fuel , also called diesel oil, is any liquid fuel specifically designed for use in a diesel engine, a type of internal combustion engine in which fuel ignition takes place without a spark as a result of compression of the inlet air and ...
, was close to
Ichera settlement on the
Lena River when the steering refused to respond, causing the ship to run into a flooded barge.
There were no injuries, after the cargo was swapped to the "Capitan Verkhoturov" tanker and sent to its destination, 18 people and 3 other vessels took part in refloating the ship.
Initially it was believed the ship was not damaged, but after surveying the refloated ship it was found that the bottom of the ship and the empty
storage tanks 11 and 12 were damaged.
The ship was removed from the bank at 2:00 on October 16 and towed off for survey in Kirensk by steam-ship "Zcuya".
As a result of the investigation into the circumstances of the incident it was found that a failure to report a danger by the steam-ship "Captain Ineshin" meant that the tanker hit the barge.
The investigation determined three guilty parties:
* The
captain of tanker SPN-673 had withdrawn from management of the vessel and had not transferred command of a vessel to the senior assistant.
* The
senior assistant SPN-673 did not promptly report the accident to the ship-owner and the emergency services.
* The captain of the steam-ship "Captain Ineshin", had not given necessary warning about a dangerous area, and after the incident did not stop to provide assistance.
All of them received fines, the money was spent by the Osetrovsky transport public
prosecutor.
SPN-705
This tanker belonged to the
Yakut river shipping company and had been equipped to transport
natural gasoline
Natural gasoline is a liquid hydrocarbon mixture condensed from natural gas, similar to common gasoline (petrol) derived from petroleum.
The chemical composition of natural gasoline is mostly five- and six-carbon alkanes (pentanes and hexanes) ...
traversing
Indigirka and
Moma River
The Moma (russian: Мома; sah, Муома) is a river in Yakutia in Russia, a right tributary of the Indigirka. The length of the river is , the area of its drainage basin is .
The extinct cinder cone volcanoes Balagan-Tas and Uraga-Tas ar ...
to deliver fuel from
Belaya Gora to
Moma Airport
Moma Airport (, sah, Муома аэропорда) is an airport in Sakha Republic, Russia, located east of Khonuu, Momsky District. It handles small transport aircraft and contains an extremely spartan layout.
Airlines and destinations
...
.
On June 28, 1996, at 11:00 there was an explosion on the ship, causing a large
fire
Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material (the fuel) in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products.
At a certain point in the combustion reaction, called the ignition point, flames a ...
.
At 12:00
fire boats and
auxiliary vessels from port Belaya Gora arrived along with
fire-engines on the coast although the fire was not fully extinguished till 17.30. The explosion created a large hole in the tanker which sank shortly after the fire was put out.
The fire caused the death of ship mechanic Victor Firstov, and captain of the tanker Jury Grabkin was severely wounded. The other five crew members were uninjured.
External links
* News article in English
Notes
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Ship types
Tankers
Tankers of Russia
Merchant ships of the Soviet Union
Energy in the Soviet Union
Lena River