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Left & Right image credit: Vigor hooks using a Mustad Autoline Super Baiter. In order to accomplish all of that, any vessel needs to be impressively out? tted. Accordingly, the Northern Leader’s Propulsion is supplied by two Schottel Z-Drive 1,000 kW rudder propellers and one 300 kW Schottel tunnel thruster. The diesel generating system includes four 715 kW Caterpillar

C32 gensets, one Caterpillar 425kW C18 genset, and one 375 kW Caterpillar C9 genset.

Also delivered in 2013 was Arctic Prowler, a 136-foot ? shing vessel built by Vigor Alaska (formerly Alaska Ship & Drydock) in Ketchikan for owner Alaska Longline

Co. The largest ship of its kind ever built in Alaska, Arc- tic Prowler has an equally impressive freezer capacity of 16,300 cubic feet and can ? sh daily with up to 56,000 hooks using a circle-hook baiting system to catch up to 735,000 pounds of a variety of cod, turbot and sable ? sh.

Like the Northern Leader, a vessel with this kind of work schedule needs robust propulsion and power. The vessel is therefore powered by two MTU 8V4000 M53R Tier-2 1,000-hp diesel engines and has a 250 hp Brunvoll FU37 bow thruster, with a prop diameter of 1,000 millimeters.

It is, perhaps, ? tting that the ship was christened in Vigor

Alaska’s then-new 250-foot assembly hall.

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