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PROPULSION UPDATE

Ruston Supplies Engines

For Australian Navy

GEC Alsthom Ruston Diesels has contracted to supply engines for two new hydrographic ships for the

Royal Australian Navy (RAN) to be built at NQEA's shipyard in Cairns,

North Queensland. The 233.5-ft. (71.2-m) survey vessels will be man- ufactured from mild steel with an aluminum superstructure, have a design displacement of 2,500 tons, and are due to enter service in 1998 and 1999, respectively.

Ruston will supply eight 6RK215 diesel engines, installed as two ship sets of four, for use as generating sets for the diesel-electric propulsion system being supplied by GEC

Alsthom Australia. The Ruston gensets will produce 810 kW at 750 r/min, and will provide the power for the main propulsion motors driving twin-bladed, skewed FP propellers through reduction gearboxes. The units will also power an omni-direc- tional pump jet capable of driving the ship to speeds of up to six knots in auxiliary propulsion.

The new vessels will replace

HMAS Moresby and HMAS

Flinders, operating out of Darwin mainly in the northern approaches to Australia. Missions will last up to 21 days, with regular accomodations for a crew of 51. Delivery of the

Ruston engines is expected in late 1996 and spring 1997.

For more information on Ruston Diesels

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Detyens To Drydock Cruise

Ship

Detyens Shipyards Inc.,

Charleston, S.C., and Radisson

Seven Seas Cruise Line have entered into an agreement for the scheduled drydocking of catamaran style luxury cruise ship Radisson

Diamond at the yard's new facility.

The work will reportedly commence in mid-December.

According to Walter Latham, manager of Business Development and Marketing at the yard, Detyens has one of the few graving docks capable of handling this catamaran- style vessel built solely for world- wide cruise service.

For more information on Detyens

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November, 1996

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