Research vessel
Cefas Endeavour
Cefas operates a sophisticated, purpose-built ocean-going research vessel to undertake estuarine, shelf seas and deep water oceanographic and fisheries surveys.
Our vessel, Cefas Endeavour, entered service in April 2003. The Cefas Endeavour is available for charter. For prices and availability please contact marketing@cefas.co.uk. Further information on availability can also be found on the Cruise Programme.
Certified to IMO's International Safety Management Code, the vessel provides an effective and economic platform for scientific research and survey. Its able to deploy a wide range of commercial and experimental static and towed gear and is fitted out with laboratory facilities, extensive electronics, sonar equipment and data networks.
| Cefas Endeavour information: |
| Port of registry |
Lowestoft |
| Length OA |
73.00 m (Excluding stern roller) |
| Length extreme |
73.916 m |
| Breadth (MLD) |
15.80 m |
| Depth (MLD) |
8.20 m |
| Design draft |
5.00 m |
| Deep draught |
5.50 m |
| LBP |
66.50 m |
| Gross tonnage |
2983 tonnes |
| Net register tonnage |
894 tonnes |
| Net lightship |
2436 tonnes |
| Deadweight @ 5.00 m |
784 tonnes |
| Deadweight @ 5.50 m |
1244 tonnes |
| Displacement @ 5.00 m |
3210 tonnes |
| Displacement @ 5.50 m |
3680 tonnes |
| Builder |
Ferguson Shipbuilders Limited, Port Glasgow |
| Commissioned |
2003 |
| Communications |
In port BT Tel.
Cellphone Voice/Fax/Data
Radio TELEX
Inmarsat C
Fleet 77 (Inmarsat F)
|
| Endurance |
42 days |
| Complement |
En-suite accommodation for 16 crew and 19 scientists with dedicated hospital facility
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| Propulsion System |
AC/DC Diesel Electric
3 x diesel electric AC generators, individually raft mounted
2 x tandom electric DC motors
Single screw
|
| Power generation |
3240 Kw |
| Power propulsion |
2230 Kw |
| Thrusters |
Bow thruster (flush mounted azimuthing)
Stern thruster (tunnel)
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| Trial speed |
14.4 knots |
| Bollard pull |
29 tonnes |
| Call sign |
VQHF3 |
| Official number |
906938 |
| MMSI |
235005270 |
| Lloyds/IMO number |
9251107 |
| Side Gantry |
7.5 tonne articulated side A-frame |
| Stern Gantry |
25 tonne stern A-frame |
| Winches |
3 x cranes 35 tM, heave compensated
2 x trawl winches
2 x drum winches, (1 double)
Double barrel survey winch with motion compensation and slip rings
Double barrel survey winch with slip rings
Double barrel towing winch with slip rings
Side-scan sonar winch with slip rings
3 x Gilson winches (one fitted to stern A-frame)
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| Transducers/Sea tube |
Drop keel to deploy transducers outside the hull boundary layer in addition to hull mounted transducers
1.2 m diameter sea tube/moon-pool
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| Acoustic equipment |
Kongsberg Simrad:
HiPAP 500 positioning sonar
EK60, 38/120 kHz scientific sounder
EA 600, 50/200 kHz scientific sounder
ITI net menuration system
SH80 high frequency omni-directional sonar
EM3000 swathe bathymetry sounder
Hull mounted Scanmar fishing computer transducers
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| Boats |
2 x 8m rigid work and rescue boats with suite of navigational equipment deployed on heave-compensated davits |
| Laboratories |
8 networked laboratories designed for optimum flexibility of purpose
4 serviced deck locations for containerised laboratories
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| Special features |
Dynamic positioning system
Intering anti-roll system
Local Area Network with scientific data management system
Ship-wide general information system
CCTV
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| Class |
LRS 100A1+LMC UMS SCM CCS ICC IP ES(2) DP(CM) ICE class 2 |
Cefas Endeavour, underwater radiated noise profile:
Average beam aspect radiated noise at 11 knots
Aerial photo of Cefas Endeavour © M. Page, http://www.norfolkskyview.flyer.co.uk/
