WORLDShipsOCIETYDorsetBRANCH

Our events can be enjoyed via Zoom & at our Dorset venue ~~ do join us.

Our events are "hybrid" ~ enjoy online or at our Dorset venue ~ see & hear about Spirit of Discovery, Queen Mary, Marco Polo and many more ships - brought to you by our enthusiastic speakers. 

Talks & Meetings on Ocean Liners, Cargo Ships, Ferries, Mariner's Memoirs, Paddle Steamers, Cruise Ships, Naval History, Ship Design, Maritime Memories and much more ~ enjoyed by ships & shipping enthusiasts ~ a community with common interests 

   JOIN US ... Ask for a guest invitation to join your first event ... info@shipsdorset.org 

~SHIPS~DORSET~ Images of the Month for January 2025 ~ 1of2 ~ ~ Idunn ~ arriving at Port of Poole - December 2024  

During the afternoon of 14th December 2024 the 130m general cargo ship Idunn arrived at Poole's South Quay to load 7,000 tons of Purbeck ball clay. In recent years this trade has been handled by the fleet of Charles M Willie using ships such as Celtic Commander and Celtic Mariner - regular callers at the Port of Poole and significantly smaller in scale than December’s arrival. Idunn is the largest ship recorded at Poole loading clay (according to two of our most experienced contributors) yet all the loading was undertaken by a single grab crane! Larger ships may required different cargo handling. Idunn’s arrival was capture by regular ~Ships~Dorset~ contributor Kev Mitchell including these two super images.

~SHIPS~DORSET~ Images of the Month for January 2025 ~ 2of2 ~ ~ Idunn ~ arriving at Port of Poole - December 2024  

Idunn was built in 2012 by the Ben Kien Shipyard in Vietnam as a multipurpose dry cargo ship equipped for carriage of containers and strengthened for heavy cargo. The vessel is equipped with 2 cranes mounted on the starboard side, each of about 80 metric tonnes lifting capacity with a reach of 18m (a reach of 28 metres can be made if capacity is reduced to 50 tonnes). When Idunn's two cranes are worked in tandem, heavy lifts of up to 160 tonnes can be handled. Propulsion is delivered via a 4,000 KW controllable pitch propeller and the ship has a 500KW bowthruster.

Key Dimensions for Idunn … Gross Tonnage = 6,580 …Length = 130m … Beam = 17m … Deadweight Tonnage = 9,290 … Grain capacity = 11,000 cubic metres … Container capacity = 640 TEU … Max. Service Speed 14 knots ... in service since 2012.

To view previous "Images of the Month" click our Image Archive link ...