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EDELWEISS II

Equipment List

Main engines (2) . . . Cummins

Propellers . Michigan Wheel

Thruster engine . . . . Onan

Generator engine . . . Cummins

Generator Newage

Reduction gears . . . . ZF

Engine controls . . . . MMC

Steering controls . . . Hynautic

VHF radio Uniden

Compass Suunto

Depth sounder . . . . Furuno

Fire pump . Peabody Barnes

Bilge pump . Peabody Barnes

Engine synchronizers . . . Glendenning

Air horn . . . .Kahlenberg

Heat pump system Crusair

EDELWEISS II

Excursion Boat

Skipperliner Shipyards

Skipperliner Shipyards, Inc., La

Crosse, Wis., delivered last year the 150-passenger excursion boat Edel- weiss II to Edelweiss, Inc., Milwau- kee, Wis.

Operating out of Milwaukee, the 82-foot European Canal boat Edel- weiss II has a beam of 20 feet, draft of 3 feet and a water height of 8 feet 6 inches. She is powered by twin

Cummins 6BT5.9M diesel engines, which drive four-bladed Michigan

Wheel propellers via ZF model

IRM220 reduction gears with a re- duction ratio of 2.45:1.

The Milwaukee River cruise boat has seating for 101 passengers. Her air-conditioned deckhouse is fitted with a bar, two heads and a galley, which is used for food preparation for meals cooked ashore.

Edelweiss, Inc., also operates the excursion boat Edelweiss I on the

Milwaukee River in downtown Mil- waukee, Wis. The river has several bridges with a 9-foot 6-inch clear- ance. The vessels are finished in a traditional European fashion with mahogany and brass.

Skipperliner Shipyards is one of the leading U.S. builders of excur- sion boats, sternwheelers and side- wheelers in the 49- to 300-passenger range.

HORIZON

Cruise Ship

Meyer Werft

This year Chandris Celebrity

Cruises added the 46,811-grt luxury liner Horizon to its fleet following her delivery by Meyer Werft's ship-

HORIZON

Equipment List

Main & auxiliary engines . . . MAN B&W Diesel

Gearbox Lohmann & Stolterfoht

Bow & stern thruster . . Lips

Emer. generator .... Janssen

Electric motors & starters ABB

Flap rudder . . .Willi Becker

Stabilizers . Sperry Marine

Magnetcompass .... Anschutz

Echo sounder . . . Krupp Atlas Elektronik

Radar JRC

Boilers . Aalborg Marine

Lighting fixtures . . Aqua Signal

Anchor . Blohm & Voss

Liferafts Viking

Evaporators . . Serck Como

Davits . . .Schat Davit

Ceilings Dampa 36 yard in Papenburg, Germany.

The $185-million Horizon along with her sister ship, the Zenith, cur- rently under construction at Meyer

Werft, are the largest passenger ships ever built in Germany.

The 47,000-grt Horizon has an overall length of about 681 feet, molded breadth of 95 feet and draft of about 24 feet.

The 12-deck ship is propelled by a father-and-son four-engine plant consisting of two MAN B&W 9 L 40/54 "father" engines with an out- put of 8,152 hp at 514 rpm each and two MAN B&W 6 L 40/54 "son" engines, each developing 5,435 hp at 514 rpm.

ABB supplied the complete mod- ular low-voltage switchgear system type MNS for an installed capacity totalling 20,625 kva and a short-cir- cuit current of 160 ka, and the three-phase AC motors for the aux- iliary systems.

Alfa-Laval Industrie of Hamburg,

Germany, supplied three separators for HFO with a three-phase motor and electric switching cabinet and a total of seven lube oil separators, two type WHPX 410 and five type

WHPX 407, with three-phase mo- tors and electric switching cabinets.

The Liberian-flagged, 1,354-pas- senger vessel has 533 outside and 144 inside cabins. /