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PROPULSION UPDATE

Textron Lycoming TF40 Engines

To Power Hong Kong Fast Ferries

Austal Ships' high speed ferry is to be powered by two Textron Lycoming TF40 marine turbine engines.

Austal Ships of Fremantle, Aus- tralia has purchased six Textron

Lycoming TF40 marine gas turbines to power the first three of a poten-

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TRANSICOLD tially large fleet of high-speed fast ferries being built for Hong Kong's largest fast ferry operator, Yuet Hing

Marine Supplies Co., Ltd., a mem- ber of Chu Kong Shipping Co. Ltd.

Yuet Hing Marine Supplies Co. noted that "after more than three years of research and comparison in order to increase the speed of our ferries, we selected the Lycoming

TF40 marine gas turbine."

The ferries will be 131-foot, waterjet-propelled, aluminum cata- marans, capable of carrying 350 passengers at speeds of above 40 knots.

Commenting on the sale, Carroll

Oates, Lycoming's director of tur- boshaft marketing, said, "Competi- tion in the Asian ferry marketplace has created a demand for craft that are faster than the current 31-knot boats. "As a result, we're seeing in- creased interest in the TF40 because it packs a high power-to-weight ra- tio into a relatively small, light- weight engine. This allows for the design of new surface craft that are faster, can carry a greater payload, and have more usable space than ever before."

The Lycoming TF40 marine tur- bine has proven reliable through more than 600,000 hours of opera- tional experience in the Navy's Land- ing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) am- phibious assault vehicle.

Having passed the Navy's rigor- ous 1,000 hour qualifications test, the TF40 is the world's only 4,000

SHP class marine turbine Navy-cer- tified for shipboard propulsion ap- plication.

This turbine is reportedly very simple, yet efficient in design. It has just five basic modules, only two of which have moving parts that re- quire maintenance.

The modular design, combined with the small volume/weight of the

TF40, enables it to be easily and quickly serviced in place without disturbing any alignment. Sched- uled inspections are required after only every 2,000 hours of operation and can generally be accomplished in less than eight hours.

The six TF40 turbines will be delivered by Lycoming to Austal

Ships in the fall of 1993.

Two of the ferries are expected to enter service by December of 1993, the third early in 1994.

Assuming the establishment of good service and performance records, the operator is expected to add many additional TF40-powered craft to their fleet during the next four years.

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