26 May 2016. Nevsky Shipyard launched the shuttle tanker Akademik Pashin, 9000 dwt, Project ST33. It is a steel-hull single-deck vessel with bulbous bow and transom stern, forecastle and poop superstructure. The tanker is designed with a double hull structure in way of cargo tanks, midship cargo hold and provision stores, aft arrangement of the accommodation superstructure and engine room. The propulsion system has a diesel engine single-shaft arrangement and includes a bow thruster.

Main Data
Length OA — abt 130.00 m.
Beam max. — abt 21.50 m.
Beam — 21.00 m.
Depth — 10.00 m.
Draft — 7.00 m.
Deadweight — 9000 t.
Speed — 16 kn
Crew — 24.

Class notation of Russian Maritime Register of Shipping — KM Arc4 AUT VCS IGS-NG CCO Oil tanker (ESP).

The tanker is designed for receiving, storing, shipping, and alongside & astern UNREP of liquid cargo (fuel oil, marine diesel oil, aviation kerosene, motor oil), as well as dry cargo (provision, deck stores and technical supplies) with alongside and vertical (helicopter lift) UNREP. Additionally the vessel is equipped for oil spill response jobs.

The newly launched tanker is designed to ship oil products without flash point limitations.

The vessel is notable for her extended service lifetime: the hull & pipeline scantlings are designed for 40-year service.

The cargo system is able to accommodate 8 types of cargo simultaneously.

Two main medium-speed diesel engines, 4640 kW each, drive via gearbox one CPP. This arrangement provides additional robustness to the propulsion plant and makes it possible to run only one main engine at cruising speed.

Apart from lifesaving appliances, as per RS requirements, the vessel is equipped with two workboats for boom deployment in case of oil spill response operations, as well as to rescue and take people aboard.

The vessel stows a 400-meter boom intended for localizing oil spills. One floating mop skimmer is available to clean up oil in the sleek fenced off by the boom or in open water area.

Akademik Pashin, keel laid on 26 April 2014, is the first ship in ST33 project series. The tanker is named after academician Valentin M. Pashin — an outstanding scientist and naval architect who had been director of the Krylov Shipbuilding Research Institute (now Krylov State Research Centre) for over 20 years.

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