Multi-Role Ocean Surveillance Ships

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In January 2023, the first vessel for this role - MV Topaz Tangaroa - was acquired and is to enter service as RFA Proteus. She was purchased for some £70 million and is to be converted to act as a mothership for autonomous systems and have military communications and light defensive armament added. The vessel ship is described as having been built in 2019 and is equipped to operate autonomous submersibles. She has diesel-electric propulsion with powerful twin bow thrusters to "hold a precise stationary position when working over subsea installations". She is also equipped with a ‘moon pool’, permitting a sheltered way for robot submersibles to be launched or recovered in high sea states. The ship is 98.1 metres-long with a flight deck, heavy duty crane and 1,000 square metres of cargo space. It is reported that a second MROS ship is envisaged, which is to be a new build vessel and as of 2023 is in the concept stage.
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The vessel was purchased for £70 Million from Topaz Marine, a subsidiary of P&O Maritime. This modern, 6,000-tonne ship was built in 2019 for work in the offshore oil industry supporting construction, maintenance and inspection work and is equipped to operate autonomous submersibles. VARD designed her (classname VARD 3 08) and the hull was built by their Tulcea shipyard in Romania and fitted out at their Brattvaag facility in Norway.
https://www.vard.com/shipbuilding/refer ... z-tangaroa


(P&O Maritime Logistics) 23rd November 2021


(Cora A.) 10th December 2022
Nice video of the TOPAZ TANGAROA passing by in the Kiel Canal (in Schleswig-Holstein State, Germany).

(Wilfried Thiel) 14th Decmber 2022

She has a sister, a ship named Topaz Tiamat.

(Hornet Hail) 9th December 2018
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