Ships and boats
Kristineberg offers a modern research vessel and several boats equipped for scientific work in coastal environments. Our vessel equipment enables physical, chemical, geological, and biological sampling during day trips in coastal waters.
R/V Alice
Our largest research vessel, R/V Alice, is 12 meters long with a maximum capacity of 12 people. Its navigation area is inshore waters. It is operated by our skippers who is well-versed in handling scientific equipment and familiar with local conditions. The vessel has access to a wide range of sampling equipment for both open water and sediment, including plankton nets, scrapers, CTD, rosette samplers, sediment sounders, and box corers.
Specifications R/V Alice
Dimensions
Length: 12,48 m
Width: 4,20 m
Draft (draught): 1.5 m
Freeboard, working deck: 0.7 m
Main engine: Cummins 6 CTA 460 HP
Performance
Speed: 10 knots
Range: Navigation zone D. During summer, extended to a maximum of 3 nautical miles from the shoreline.
Maximum time at sea: 12 hours
Scientific equipment
Crane: HIAB 013T. Maximum lift 480 kg. Maximum reach 4.2 metres, 275 kg.
Deck lifting equipment: moveable A-frame for 480 kg maximum lift
Winches: hydraulic trawl winch with 100 mof wire
Instrument on board: CTD (Sea-Bird 19 plus V2 200 kHz). Rosette water sampler (SBE 55, 6 bottles). ADCP (RDI Ocean Surveyor; 600kHz
Navigation
Navigational software: Furuno Time Zero
Echo sounder: Simrad G0XSE
Capacity and working space
Gross register tonnage: 15,6
Fuel: 0.8 m3
Free working deck area: 6 m2
Crew and passengers
Crew: 2
Passangers/Scientists/students, incl teachers: 12 within Sea area D
If bulky equipment is used, the number of passengers will be reduced. Maximum deck load is 1000 kg including equipment and passengers.
Ship data
Built by: Strömstads Plåt & Marin AB, 2000
Owner: University of Gothenburg, since 2000
Namned after: Alice Wallenberg, nee Nickelsen (1858-1956), who together with her husband and banker Knut Wallenberg created Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. It paid for the vessel through a grant to the scientist Anders Stigebrandt.
Contact
Telephone: +46 31786 95 04
Call signal VHF: SFC6960
Althea
Our cabin boat of the popular model ARVOR 215. The boat is 6 m long, takes up to four people, with a spacious cabin and a large deck, excellent for shorter research missions, diving, or measurements. The boat is equipped with plotter, echo sounder, VHF, and anchor winch. The boat is restricted to inland navigation.
Specifications Althea
Dimensions
Length including swim platform: 6.88 m
Hull length: 6.33 m
Maximum beam: 2.54 m
Draft: 0.75 m
Wheelhouse height: 2.15 m
Fuel tank: 90 l
Maximum people onboard: 4
Qualifications and certificates required to operate the boat:
- Minimum FB VIII exam
- Minimum SRC certificate for boat radio
- Basic safety FB VIII
- Approved medical certificate for skippers
- Approved familiarization
- Considered suitable as captain
Pioner boats
We have two Pioner boats equipped with powerful 80 hp engines. These boats are particularly well-suited for diving missions or research tasks requiring a stable work platform. They have an open design without weather protection, which is compensated by a spacious, functional deck with excellent load capacity. The flexibility of the Pioner boats makes them an excellent complement to our other vessel equipment for shorter, specialized research missions in coastal waters.
We also have field equipment that is used in shallow water and from land, as well as from small boats.
Small boats
We also have several smaller boats for flexible use near the station. One of these boats is equipped with outboard motors for powered movement, while the others are traditional rowboats.
