MV Tricolor, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 47 relations: BBC, BMW, BNS Gomati, Car, Cemented carbide, Combinatie Berging Tricolor, Consortium, Container ship, Dunkirk, Emergency wreck buoy, English Channel, Exclusive economic zone, Fortnight, French Marine Accident Investigation Office, Hansard, IMO number, International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities, Island-class patrol vessel, Le Havre, List of roll-on/roll-off vessel accidents, Magellan Navigation, Marine salvage, Maritime Gendarmerie, Marseille, MV Baltic Ace, MV Cougar Ace, MV Golden Ray, Netherlands, North Sea, Norway, Patrol boat, Radar beacon, Russian submarine Kursk (K-141), Saab AB, Sea lane, Side-scan sonar, Smit International, Southampton, Submarine, The Bahamas, Tonne, Traffic separation scheme, Transponder, Turkey, Volvo Cars, Wilh. Wilhelmsen, Zeebrugge.

2. Maritime incidents in 2002
3. Ro-ro ships

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BMW

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, commonly abbreviated to BMW, is a German multinational manufacturer of luxury vehicles and motorcycles headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

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BNS Gomati

BNS Gomati is an offshore patrol vessel of the Bangladesh Navy.

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Car

A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels.

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Cemented carbide

Cemented carbides are a class of hard materials used extensively for cutting tools, as well as in other industrial applications.

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Combinatie Berging Tricolor

Combinatie Berging Tricolor (CBT) was a consortium of -mainly- Dutch salvaging companies led by Smit Salvaging BV, a daughter company of Smit International.

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Consortium

A consortium is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations, or governments (or any combination of these entities) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal.

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Container ship

A container ship (also called boxship or spelled containership) is a cargo ship that carries all of its load in truck-size intermodal containers, in a technique called containerization.

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Dunkirk

Dunkirk (Dunkerque, Duunkerke, Duinkerke or Duinkerken) is a commune in the department of Nord in northern France.

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Emergency wreck buoy

An Emergency wreck buoy is used to warn of a new wreck which has not yet been listed in maritime documents.

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English Channel

The English Channel, also known as the Channel, is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Southern England from northern France.

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Exclusive economic zone

An exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.

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Fortnight

A fortnight is a unit of time equal to 14 days (two weeks).

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French Marine Accident Investigation Office

Bureau d'Enquêtes sur les Événements de Mer ('Marine Accident Investigation Office'), known as BEAmer, is the French agency that investigates accidents and incidents of ships.

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Hansard

Hansard is the transcripts of parliamentary debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries.

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IMO number

The IMO number of the International Maritime Organization is a generic term covering two distinct meanings.

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The International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA), previously known as International Association of Lighthouse Authorities, is an association founded in 1957 to collect and provide nautical expertise and advice.

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Island-class patrol vessel

The Island-class patrol vessel was first designed and built for the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency.

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Le Havre

Le Havre (Lé Hâvre) is a major port city in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region of northern France.

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List of roll-on/roll-off vessel accidents

This is a list of roll-on/roll-off vessels involved in maritime incidents and accidents.

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Magellan Navigation

Magellan Navigation, Inc. is an American producer of consumer and professional grade global positioning system receivers, named after Ferdinand Magellan, the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe.

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Marine salvage

Marine salvage is the process of recovering a ship and its cargo after a shipwreck or other maritime casualty.

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Maritime Gendarmerie

The Maritime Gendarmerie (Gendarmerie maritime) is a component of the French National Gendarmerie under operational control of the chief of staff of the French Navy.

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Marseille

Marseille or Marseilles (Marseille; Marselha; see below) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.

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MV Baltic Ace

MV Baltic Ace was a Bahamian-flagged car carrier, that sank in the North Sea on 5 December 2012 after a collision with the Cyprus-registered container ship Corvus J. Built by Stocznia Gdynia in Poland, the ship had been in service since 2007. MV Tricolor and MV Baltic Ace are ro-ro ships.

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MV Cougar Ace

The MV Cougar Ace was a Singapore-flagged roll-on/roll-off car carrier vessel. MV Tricolor and MV Cougar Ace are ro-ro ships and ships built in Japan.

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MV Golden Ray

The MV Golden Ray was a roll-on/roll-off cargo ship designed to carry automobiles that capsized on 8 September 2019 in St. Simons Sound near the Port of Brunswick in Georgia, United States. MV Tricolor and MV Golden Ray are ro-ro ships.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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North Sea

The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Patrol boat

A patrol boat (also referred to as a patrol craft, patrol ship, or patrol vessel) is a relatively small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defence, border security, or law enforcement.

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Radar beacon

Radar beacon (short: racon) is – according to article 1.103 of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) ITU Radio Regulations (RR) – defined as "A transmitter-receiver associated with a fixed navigational mark which, when triggered by a radar, automatically returns a distinctive signal which can appear on the display of the triggering radar, providing range, bearing and identification information." Each station (transmitter-receiver, transceiver or transponder) shall be classified by the service in which it operates permanently or temporarily.

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Russian submarine Kursk (K-141)

K-141 Kursk (Атомная Подводная Лодка «Курск» (АПЛ «Курск»)., transl., meaning "Atomic-powered submarine Kursk") was an Oscar II-class nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine of the Russian Navy.

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Saab AB

Saab AB (originally,, acronym SAAB), with subsidiaries collectively known as the Saab Group (Saabgruppen), is a Swedish aerospace and defense company primarily operating from Sweden.

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Sea lane

A sea lane, sea road or shipping lane is a regularly used navigable route for large water vessels (ships) on wide waterways such as oceans and large lakes, and is preferably safe, direct and economic.

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Side-scan sonar

Side-scan sonar (also sometimes called side scan sonar, sidescan sonar, side imaging sonar, side-imaging sonar and bottom classification sonar) is a category of sonar system that is used to efficiently create an image of large areas of the sea floor.

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Smit International

Smit Internationale N.V. (or Smit International) is a Dutch company operating in the maritime sector.

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Southampton

Southampton is a port city in Hampshire, England.

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Submarine

A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.

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The Bahamas

The Bahamas, officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Tonne

The tonne (or; symbol: t) is a unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms.

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Traffic separation scheme

A traffic separation scheme or TSS is a maritime traffic-management route-system ruled by the International Maritime Organization or IMO.

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Transponder

In telecommunications, a transponder is a device that, upon receiving a signal, emits a different signal in response.

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Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

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Volvo Cars

Volvo Cars AB (Volvo personvagnar, styled VOLVO in the company's logo) is a Swedish multinational manufacturer of luxury vehicles.

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Wilh. Wilhelmsen

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Zeebrugge

Zeebrugge (from Brugge aan zee, meaning "Bruges-on-Sea"; Zeebruges) is a village on the coast of Belgium and a subdivision of Bruges, for which it is the modern port.

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See also

Maritime incidents in 2002

• 2002 Kumarakom boat disaster
• Burnt Church Crisis
• Byford Dolphin
• Elisabeth Smit
• Excalibur (yacht)
• I-40 bridge disaster
• Karine A affair
• List of shipwrecks in 2002
• MV Captain Kurbatskiy
• MV Le Joola
• MV Prestige
• MV Salahuddin-2
• MV Tricolor
• Maritime Jewel
• Prestige oil spill
• Regina Maris (1908)
• Sedelnikov (ship)
• Tullaghmurray Lass
• USS Caron
• USS Dolphin (AGSS-555)
• USS Greeneville
• USS Lloyd Thomas (DD-764)
• USS Oklahoma City (SSN-723)
• USS Shelton (DD-790)
• USS Spiegel Grove
• USS White Plains (AFS-4)
• Wind Song (ship)
• Yugoslav auxiliary Ugor

Ro-ro ships

• Asterion II
• Auriga Leader
• Blue Star 1
• Canopée
• Cape Ducato-class vehicle cargo ship
• Corona Seaways
• E-Flexer-class ferry
• El. Venizelos (ship)
• Elyros (ship)
• Felicity Ace
• G4-class freighter
• Galaxy Leader
• Grande America
• Heroic Ace
• Jacklyn (ship)
• Jolly Blue
• Jolly Express
• Large, Medium-Speed Roll-on/Roll-off
• MS Chi-Cheemaun
• MS Epsilon
• MV Bali Sea
• MV Baltic Ace
• MV City of St. Petersburg
• MV Commodore Goodwill
• MV Cougar Ace
• MV Faust
• MV Fremantle Highway
• MV Golden Ray
• MV Höegh Osaka
• MV Portaferry II
• MV Strangford II
• MV Tønsberg
• MV Taiko
• MV Taishan
• MV Tampa
• MV Tricolor
• MV Ulysses (2000)
• MV W.B. Yeats
• Nichioh Maru
• RS RocketShip
• Roll-on/roll-off
• Spanish ship Ysabel
• Tasmanian Achiever II
• Type RO 15
• Victorian Reliance II

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Tricolor

Also known as Tricolor (ship).