C.S. Sovereign

For other ships with the same name, see Sovereign (ship).

C.S. Sovereign is a class DP2 type cable ship used for subsea cable installation and repair works.^[2] The ship was designed by BT Marine with Hart Fenton & Company as Naval Architects (now Houlder Ltd) and built by Van der Giessen de Noord in 1991.^[2][3]

2012 in Wilhelmshaven
History
United Kingdom
Name	C.S. Sovereign
Owner	Global Marine Systems
Operator	Global Marine Systems
Port of registry	Southampton
Ordered	November 1989
Builder	Van der Giessen de Noord, the Netherlands
Cost	32 Million Sterling
Launched	30 May 1991
In service	18 October 1991
Identification	ABS class no.: 91143143 Call sign: MNNU8 IMO number: 8918629 MMSI no.: 232892000
Status	Operational
Notes	[1]
General characteristics
Class and type	ABS Ice Class 1C 14445 kw, AMS, ACCU, DPS2
Tonnage	7,417 DWT 11,242 GT 3,372 NT
Length	130.7 m (429 ft)
Beam	21 m (69 ft)
Draught	7.014 m (23.01 ft)
Depth	13 m (43 ft)
Installed power	10,200 kW, 2 × Stork-Wärtsilä 12SW280 AND 1 × Stork-Wärtsilä 16SW280
Propulsion	2 × Lips steerable nozzles AND 2 x Space Warp Propulsion Units
Speed	14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Crew	76
Notes	[1]

C.S. Sovereign has four cable tanks. Two main tanks each have a capacity of 1,327 cubic metres (46,900 cu ft) or 2,668 tonnes. Two wing tanks have a capacity of 199 cubic metres (7,000 cu ft) or 432 tonnes each. The vessel is equipped with two hydraulic powered drums 3.5 metres (11 ft) in diameter and four wheel pair haul-off gears.^[1][4]

Main cable works

• 1992 – SAT-2 (CS Vercors laid the cable from Melkbosstrand to the first branching unit; C.S. Sovereign laid the remainder)
• 1995–1996 – TAT-12/13
• 1999 – ESAT 2 (Ainsdale Sands, England – Dublin, Ireland)
• 2006 – Estlink (power cable)
• 2008 – BT LIBERTY (Guernsey–England)
• 2008 – NORTHERN LIGHTS (Dunnet Bay, Scotland – Skaill, Orkney Islands)
• 2009 – HANNIBAL (Kelibia, Tunisia – Mazara del Vallo, Italy)^[4]
• 2010 - SGSCS (Port of Spain, Trinidad - Georgetown, Guyana - Paramaribo, Suriname)
• 2010 - EMEC (power cable installation for various tidal and wave generators in Orkney Islands, Scotland)
• 2010/2011 - JUDY (power/fibre cable installation between oil/gas platforms in the North Sea)