MV Tampa
{{Short description|Container ship built in 1984}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}}
| {{Infobox ship begin}}
{{Infobox ship image | Ship image = Wallenius Wilhelmsen - MV Tampa.JPG | Ship caption = MV Tampa at Papeete, French Polynesia }} {{Infobox ship career | Ship flag = | Ship name =*Tampa
| Ship owner = Wilhelmsen Lines Shipowning | Ship operator = | Ship registry = {{NOR}} | Ship route = | Ship builder =*Hyundai Heavy Industries
| Ship original cost = | Ship yard number = 248 | Ship way number = | Ship laid down = | Ship launched =10 October 1983 | Ship completed = 1984 | Ship christened = | Ship acquired = | Ship maiden voyage = | Ship in service = | Ship out of service = | Ship identification =*Call sign: LMWO3
| Ship fate =Scrapped 2 August 2013 | Ship notes ={{csr|register=SD|id=166504|shipname=Tampa|accessdate=19 May 2013}} }} {{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header = | Header caption = | Ship type = Container ship | Ship tonnage =*{{DWT|39,900}}
| Ship displacement = | Ship length = {{convert|262.3|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship beam = {{convert|32.26|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship height = | Ship draught = {{convert|9.78|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | Ship depth = | Ship decks = 12 | Ship deck clearance = | Ship ramps = | Ship ice class = | Ship sail plan = | Ship power = | Ship propulsion = | Ship speed = {{convert|21|kn}} | Ship capacity = | Ship crew = 25 }} |
MV Tampa was a roll-on/roll-off container ship completed in 1984 by Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. in South Korea for the Norway-based firm, Wilhelmsen Lines Shipowning.
In 2001, the vessel was at the centre of the Tampa affair when its crew rescued 433 refugees in international waters, but the Australian government refused permission for them to disembark on Christmas Island.
Service history
Tampa was launched in late 1983. It was a so-called ro-ro ship. Ro-ro is an abbreviation of roll-on/roll off. These ships are cargo ships designed to carry wheeled cargo, such as cars, motorcycles, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, buses, trailers, and railroad cars, that are driven on and off the ship on their own wheels or using a platform vehicle, such as a self-propelled modular transporter. This is in contrast to lift-on/lift-off (LoLo) vessels, which use a crane to load and unload cargo.
=Tampa affair=
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File:ABC Tampa.ogv news report of the Tampa affair and its political context, October 2001.]]
In August 2001, under Captain Arne Rinnan, a diplomatic dispute brewed between Australia, Norway, and Indonesia after Tampa rescued 433 Afghans from a distressed fishing vessel in international waters. The Afghans wanted passage to the nearby Christmas Island. The Australian government sought to prevent this by refusing Tampa entry into Australian waters, insisting on their disembarkment elsewhere, and deploying the Special Air Service Regiment to board the ship.{{Cite web |last=Jason Burke |first=Jason |last2=Brace |first2=Matthew |date=2001-09-02 |title=All Australia can offer is guano island |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/02/sandrajordan.jasonburke |access-date=2022-08-06 |website=The Guardian|location=London}}[http://www.snl.no/Tampa-saken Tampa-saken] in Store norske leksikon
At the time of the incident, Tampa carried cargo worth {{A$|20 million}}, and 27 crew. The crew of Tampa later received the Nansen Refugee Award for 2002 from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for their efforts to follow international principles of saving people in distress at sea.
=Cocaine smuggling bust=
In October 2006, Tampa was one of two Wilhelmsen ships involved in a cocaine-smuggling operation intercepted by the New Zealand Customs Service and the Australian Federal Police. {{convert|27|kg|spell=In}} of cocaine was allegedly attached to the side of the two cargo ships bound for Australia in purpose-built metal pods, although New Zealand authorities stated they did not believe the ship's crew or owners were involved.{{Cite news |last=Crewdson |first=Patrick |url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/tampa-one-of-two-ships-named-in-cocaine-bust/2006/10/26/1161749257097.html |title=Tampa one of two ships named in cocaine bust |work=The Age|location=Melbourne |date=27 October 2006}}
See also
- {{MV|Taiko}}
- Ruddock v Vadarlis
References
{{Reflist}}
Bibliography
- David Marr, Maria Wilkinson: Dark Victory – How a government lied its way to political triumph. Allen & Unwin 2004, {{ISBN|978-1-74114-447-5}}.
Further reading
- [http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/federal_ct/2001/1297.html Decision of Justice North, Federal Court of Australia] 11 September 2001
- [http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/federal_ct/2001/1329.html Decision of Full Court] overturning decision of Justice North, 18 September 2001
- David Marr & Marian Wilkinson Dark Victory. {{ISBN|1-74114-447-7}}
- {{cite book|first=Ian|last=McPhedran|author-link=Ian McPhedran|title=The Amazing SAS|isbn=0-7322-7981-X|publisher=HarperCollins|date=2005}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060920161759/http://blogs.news.com.au/news/news/index.php/news/comments/in_the_tampa_confusion_we_lost_our_moral_bearings/ News.com.au]: Reflections by Julian Burnside on Tampa with public comments published to coincide with 5-year anniversary of the event
- Daniel Ross, Violent Democracy, ch. 5.
- Mary Elzabeth Crock: [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1433591 In the Wake of the Tampa: Conflicting Visions of International Refugee Law in the Management of Refugee Flows]. Pacific Rim Journal of Law and Policy, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 49–95, 2003.
- Peter Mares: Borderline: Australia's Response to Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the Wake of the Tampa. UNSW Press 2002, {{ISBN|0-86840-789-5}}.
External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20050624075827/http://www.nauruwire.org/nauru.htm NauruWire, an Australia based site] Update on status of detainees. Accessed 25 June 2005.
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Category:History of immigration to Australia
Category:International maritime incidents
Category:Maritime incidents in 2001
Category:Ships built by Hyundai Heavy Industries Group