Trinity Yachts Delivers Patrol Craft
miles. She will be able to carry a variable payload of 6,500 lbs. The vessel's accommodations include shock mitigating seats for five crew and up to sixteen additional passengers. The craft is outfitted with foundations and mounts for a variety of weapons systems.
Gladding-Hearn to Build Pilot Boat for Bahamas
Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Duclos Corporation, has begun construction of a new St. Johns class pilot boat for Freeport Harbor Company in the Grand Bahamas. Freeport Harbor Company provides tugboat and pilot services in cooperation with the Grand Bahamas Port Authority. Delivery is scheduled for November. The all-aluminum high-speed launch, designed by C. Raymond Hunt Associates in Boston, measures 52.6 ft. overall, with an 17 ft. beam and 4.8 ft. draft, and is expected to reach a top speed of 25 knots. The deep-V hull will be powered by twin Caterpillar C-18 diesel engines, each producing 671 bhp at 2,100 rpm and turning a 5-blade propeller. The gear boxes are Twin Disc model MGX5135A Quick Shift. The launch will be equipped with a 12 kW Northern Lights generator. Interior accommodations will include 38,000 Btu HVAC units, Stidd reclining seats, a settee, two bunks, a small galley, and a head. At the transom, there will be throttle and steering controls and a winch-operated davit over a recessed platform at water level for pilot rescue operations.
Trinity Yachts, L.L.C., through its wholly owned subsidiary, Trinity Offshore, L.L.C., has delivered the first of two aluminum 82 ft. patrol craft it is building in New Orleans under a subcontract to United States Marine, Inc., (U.S.M.I.) of Gulfport. The craft design is similar to those built for United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in the late 1990's by the Trinity Marine Group. These vessels are still in service today. The first hull was recently delivered to U.S.M.I. for outfitting and the second hull is scheduled for delivery to U.S.M.I. in late March 2009. Both boats will be delivered to United States Naval Sea System Command by the third quarter of 2009. The craft is powered by two MTU 12V396TE engines with ZF-4640 marine gears with two Rolls Royce/KaMeWa 50S-II water jets, with emergency steering. The craft's cruising speed will be approximately 35 knots with a maximum speed of 47 + knots. The range at cruise speed will be 500 + nautical
New "Dunkerque-max" Bulk Carrier Delivered
Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. delivered a 177,000 dwt type bulk carrier named MV Cape Garland (MES HULL Main Particulars No. 1693) at its Chiba Works on January 30, 2009. The ship is Length, o.a.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 m Length, b.p. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 m unique in that it is the first ship in a new Cape-size bulk carrier Breadth., molded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.9 m of the Dunkerque-max Type, accommodating to the restriction Depth, molded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.7 m Draft, molded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.9 m of the port of Dunkirque, France. GT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92,278 tons It is designed to enable effective cargo handling, easy main- DWT . . 178,394 metric tons (at draft 17.9 m) tenance of cargo holds and structural safety by adopting a dou- Main Engine . . . . . . . . MITSUI-MAN B&W . . . . . . . . . . Diesel Engine 6S70MCC x 1 set ble-side skin to cargo holds construction. In spite of cargo holds Max. Cont. Output . . . . 18,660 kW x 91 rpm bounded by a double-side skin according to SOLAS, the cargo Service Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.3 knots ..... capacity of the ship is equivalent to that of conventional Cape- Complement .Society. . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .28. persons Classification . . . . NK size bulk carriers with holds bounded by a single-side skin. The Port of Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Singapore ship was designed in accordance with IACS URS25 so that Date of Delivery . . . . . . . . January 30, 2009 loading flexibility has been secured and structural safety has been improved. Improvement of safety has been achieved by installation of a forecastle and by application of new requirements concerning reserve buoyancy to the ship. One separate settling and service tank for Low Sulfur H.F.O. and one for usual H.F.O. are provided for the convenience of a changeover between Low Sulfur H.F.O. and usual H.F.O. in a SOx Emission Control Area (SECA). Low Sulfur D.O. tank and usual D.O. tank are provided for the same reason. The main engine of the ship is MITSUI-MAN B&W Diesel Engine 6S70MC-C, which satisfies IMO Environment Standards for Exhaust Gas and achieves improvement of fuel saving by optimum matching at normal service output. An electronic controlled cylinder oiling system is applied to the main engine achieving operational cost saving.
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