MPI ADVENTURE

[Western Quay King]

MPI ADVENTURE on lay by at Corporation Quay, Port of Sunderland on 8th October 2012.

Having loaded a Met Mast from McNulty's Yard at South Shields, Port of Tyne she couldn't carry out the installation due to a sea swell and has gone to lay by in the Wear pending more favourable sea conditions.

She was chartered to install a 750 tonne offshore Met Mast (offshore anemometry structure) off Blyth as part of the Blyth Offshore Wind Demonstration Site. Commissioned by the National Renewable Energy Centre (NAREC). The Met Mast consists of a 635 tonne tripod foundation and 100 tonne platform. Radio masts that were on the deck of the inbound MPI Adventure will be fitted to the platform.

Type of ship : Offshore Support Vessel - Wind Turbine Installation

IMO number 9530084
Call Sign PCKV
MMSI 245924000

[Western Quay King]

According to ITV News - local North East variety, she has damage to one of her legs and thus the aborted installation. Sge is under repairs in Sunderland.

[creemaster]

Apparently she is to position the tripos approx three miles off Blyth, just over the horizon. Currently the windmills on the east pier are being dismantled by Briggs Marine and will be replaced by 2 large windmills on the pier of similar size to the one next to the site of the Seven Stars pub and four between the Alcan Ship unloading facility and North Blyth. It has been reported that these are the largest land based windmills in the UK.

Graham