Global InformationBOKA Vanguard information
 Dockwise Vanguard without cargo in Maasmond, Rotterdam in 2014
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| History | |
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| Name |
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| Owner |  Dockwise Shipping B.V. |
| Port of registry | Willemstad,  Curaçao[1] |
| Ordered | 2 October 2011[1] |
| Builder | Hyundai Heavy Industries |
| Cost | US$240 million[6] |
| Yard number | 2511[4] |
| Laid down | 22 December 2011[1] |
| Launched | 7 October 2012[3] |
| Christened | 30 November 2012[4] |
| Completed | 2012 |
| Acquired | 1 February 2013 [5] |
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| General characteristics | |
| Type | Heavy lift ship |
| Tonnage |
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| Displacement | 91,238 tonnes[7] |
| Length |
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| Beam | 79 m (259 ft) |
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| Crew | 40 |
BOKA Vanguard (formerly Dockwise Vanguard) is a semisubmersible heavy-lift ship owned and operated by Dockwise B.V. Dockwise Vanguard is the largest vessel of her type ever built, and is able to carry cargoes up to 110,000 tonnes.[11] Dockwise Vanguard was designed to move offshore oil and gas facilities, but can also carry other ships and act as an offshore dry-dock facility.[12]
As offshore oil and gas facilities have grown in size, Dockwise saw a market for a ship that could carry the largest floating oil rigs to their destinations,[13] reducing time and costs of transportation and allowing rigs to be built economically in a shipyard. In conjunction with Finland-based Deltamarin,[6] they designed a ship called the "type-O heavy-lift vessel", later renamed Dockwise Vanguard following an in-house competition won by Gerry Sarlis and Anthony van Ginkel.[14] In 2014, Dockwise started a feasibility study into a larger successor to Dockwise Vanguard.[15]
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