C.S. Sovereign is a class DP2 type cable ship used for subsea cable installation and repair works. The ship was designed by BT Marine with Hart Fenton & Company as Naval Architects (now Houlder Ltd) and built by Van der Giessen de Noord in 1991.
C.S. Sovereign has four cable tanks. Two main tanks each have a capacity of or 2,668 tonnes. Two wing tanks have a capacity of or 432 tonnes each. The vessel is equipped with two hydraulic powered drums in diameter and four wheel pair haul-off gears.
Main cable works
1992 – SAT-2 (CS Vercors laid the cable from Melkbosstrand to the first branching unit; C.S. Sovereign laid the remainder) 1995–1996 – TAT-12/13 1999 – ESAT 2 (Ainsdale Sands, England – Dublin, Ireland) 2006 – Estlink (power cable) 2008 – BT LIBERTY (Guernsey–England) 2008 – NORTHERN LIGHTS (Dunnet Bay, Scotland – Skaill, Orkney Islands) 2009 – HANNIBAL (Kelibia, Tunisia – Mazara del Vallo, Italy) 2010 - SGSCS (Port of Spain, Trinidad - Georgetown, Guyana - Paramaribo, Suriname) 2010 - EMEC (power cable installation for various tidal and wave generators in Orkney Islands, Scotland) 2010/2011 - JUDY (power/fibre cable installation between oil/gas platforms in the North Sea)
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