Progress RV Adriaen Coenen

You can follow the progress of the construction of RV Adriaen Coenen by the monthly update on the ship’s timeline.  On this page you can read the summary, introducing NG shipyards and the latest planning.

Builders
RV Adriaen Coenen will be built at Next Generation Shipyards (NGS) in Lauwersoog. It is a full-service shipyard with four departments: Shipbuilding, Repairs, Shiplift and Marine engineering. The company wants to pioneer, and take social and environmental responsibility. In addition to its own line of working ships for commercial shipping, the company in Lauwersoog also has a global service and maintenance branch. NGS has formed a project team specifically for the management of the project, which meets with NIOZ-NMF every two weeks.

Designed with input of many stakeholders
The ship was designed on the basis of a long wish list of all conceivable Dutch stakeholders, from the academic community, from universities of applied sciences (HBO) and applied research organisations (TO2), as well as from NGOs.

Last year, a detailed design for the RV Adriaen Coenen was drawn up with support from Marimecs Marine Design and Engineering in Steenwijk. NGS will only review this original design and optimise a few details.

Construction process and planning
The RV Adriaen Coenen will have a sustainable aluminium hull. With a length of 19 metres and a relatively small displacement of 25 tonnes, the RV Adriaen Coenen is a relatively small and simple vessel. That means short construction times for both the hull and the superstructure.

• June 2021: start of the construction of the aluminium hull. All aluminium will be cut computer-controlled and delivered at the wharf as a as a ready-to-assemble kit.
• Second half of 2021: roofed completion of the hull: placing the motors and construction of the machine room, building the laboratories, huts, galley, steering hut and daytime residences with electronics.
• Spring 2022: delivery and test runs