MV Dali facts for kids
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|} The MV Dali is a very large container ship that was built in 2015 in South Korea. It is known as a Neopanamax ship because it is big enough to fit through the newer, wider locks of the Panama Canal.
On March 26, 2024, while the ship was being operated by a company called Synergy Marine, it crashed into and destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland.
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| History | |
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| Name | Dali |
| Namesake | Salvador Dalí |
| Owner |
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| Operator |
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| Port of registry |
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| Ordered | 14 May 2013 |
| Builder | Hyundai Heavy Industries (Ulsan, South Korea) |
| Yard number | 2678 |
| Laid down | 10 October 2014 |
| Launched | 27 December 2014 |
| Christened | 5 January 2015 |
| Completed | 5 March 2015 |
| Identification |
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| Status | Docked at the Seagirt Marine Terminal with pending investigations. |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Neopanamax container ship |
| Tonnage | |
| Displacement | 148,984 t (146,631 long tons) |
| Length | 299.92 m (984 ft) |
| Beam | 48.2 m (158 ft 2 in) |
| Draught | 15.03 m (49 ft 4 in) |
| Depth | 24.8 m (81 ft 4 in) |
| Installed power | MAN-B&W 9S90ME-C9.2; 41,480 kW (55,630 hp) |
| Propulsion | Single shaft; fixed pitch propeller |
| Speed | 22 knots (41 km/h; 25 mph) |
| Capacity | 9,971 TEU |
About the Dali
The Dali is a huge container ship. It is about 300 meters (984 feet) long, which is almost as long as three football fields! It is also 48.2 meters (158 feet) wide. It can carry a lot of cargo.
The ship has a powerful diesel engine that helps it move through the water. This engine gives it enough power to travel at a speed of about 22 knots (which is about 41 kilometers per hour or 25 miles per hour). To help it move around in tight spaces like ports, the Dali also has a special bow thruster at the front.
How the Dali was Built
The company Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea was hired to build the Dali and another ship like it in 2013. These ships were designed to carry a lot of containers.
Building the Dali started in July 2014 in a city called Ulsan, South Korea. The main part of the ship, called the hull, was put together on October 10, 2014. The ship was then launched into the water on December 27, 2014.
On January 5, 2015, the Dali and its sister ship, the Cezanne, were officially named. They were named after famous painters, Salvador Dalí and Paul Cézanne. The Dali was finished and ready for service on March 5, 2015.
The Dali's Journey and Owners
When the Dali was first finished in 2015, it was owned by a company called Stellar Marine LLC. It was registered in the Marshall Islands.
In 2016, the ship was sold to a new owner, Grace Ocean Pte. Ltd., and a company called Synergy Marine Pte. Ltd. started managing it. Both of these companies are based in Singapore, and the ship was also re-registered there. Since it was built, the Dali has been rented out to a large Danish shipping company called Maersk.
In June 2023, while the Dali was in a port in San Antonio, Chile, a small issue was found with one of its fuel pressure gauges. This was fixed quickly before the ship left the port. Later, when the ship was checked again in the United States, no problems were found.
Incidents Involving the Dali
Port of Antwerp 2016
On July 11, 2016, the Dali accidentally hit the dock at a container terminal in the Port of Antwerp, Belgium. This caused some damage to the back of the ship and to the dock itself. However, no one was hurt, and there was no pollution in the water.
Francis Scott Key Bridge 2024
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On March 26, 2024, the Dali left the Port of Baltimore in the United States. It was carrying almost 4,700 containers and was headed for Colombo, Sri Lanka. There were 22 crew members and two special pilots on board.
Soon after leaving the port, the ship lost power. The crew quickly sent out a distress call, known as a mayday. Shortly after that, the Dali crashed into a support pillar of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. This caused a large part of the bridge to collapse, with some of it falling onto the front of the ship.
Luckily, none of the 24 people on board the Dali were seriously hurt. All cars had left the bridge before it collapsed, but sadly, six construction workers who were on the bridge at the time died. The National Transportation Safety Board is now investigating what happened.
After the accident, the owners and managers of the Dali started a legal process to limit how much money they might have to pay for the damage. The city of Baltimore also filed papers to seek money for the financial losses caused by the bridge collapse. They said the ship's crew and maintenance might have been at fault.
On May 13, the parts of the bridge that were on the ship were removed using explosives. A week later, tugboats moved the Dali to the Seagirt Marine Terminal for more checks and to remove any remaining debris. The Dali then traveled to Hampton Roads on June 25, 2024, to unload its cargo and get repairs.
See also
- Lake Illawarra, a ship that crashed into the Tasman Bridge in 1975
- Marine Floridian, a tanker that crashed into the Benjamin Harrison Bridge in 1977
- Summit Venture, a ship that crashed into the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in 1980
