MV Ursa Major
EIT Palmina in 2016 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name |
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| Namesake | Ursa Major (since 2021) |
| Owner | Oboronlogistika |
| Port of registry |
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| Ordered | 15 September 2008 |
| Builder | Peene-Werft (Wolgast, Germany) |
| Yard number | 251 |
| Laid down | 28 January 2009 |
| Launched | 28 October 2009 |
| Completed | 14 December 2009 |
| Identification | |
| Fate | Sank, 23 December 2024 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Heavy-lift ship |
| Tonnage | 12,679 GT; 3,804 NT; 9,490 DWT |
| Displacement | 16,335 t (16,077 long tons) |
| Length | 142.47 m (467.4 ft) |
| Beam | 23.20 m (76.1 ft) |
| Draught | 7.20 m (23.6 ft) |
| Ice class | 1A |
| Installed power | MAN B&W 16V32/40, 8,000 kW |
| Propulsion | Single controllable pitch propeller |
| Speed | 17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
| Crew | 16 |
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MV Ursa Major was a heavy-lift ship that operated from 2009 to 2024.
She was built in Germany in 2009 as Scan Britania. She was renamed Hyundai Britania in 2010; EIT Palmina in 2011; Sparta III in 2017; and Ursa Major in 2021.
In 2024 she sank in the western Mediterranean, with the loss of two of her 16 crew. At the time of the sinking, the ship was owned by the Russian state corporation Oboronlogistika.