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side, affording an unrestricted view forward, should deck cranes be fitted later. The wide, U- shaped console carries STN-Atlas 9600 ARPAX and S-band radars, Anschutz gyro compass and autopilot, and remote controls for the DEBEG

GMDSS. The main DEBEG radio console is in the port aft corner of the wheelhouse and the chart table is behind the command center and carries the Trimble NT 200 GPS and DGPS navigators, Loran C and echo sounder.

A Sulzer 6RTA84C engine of 24,300 kW at 102 rpm from

Dieselmotoren Vulkan fits comfortably within the short engine room.

Close attention was paid to reducing hull vibra- tion arising from machinery and propeller.

The engine is fitted with a second order moment compensator at each end, as well as an axial crankshaft vibration damper and hydraulic lateral stays at cylinder head level. It turns a 24.4-ft. (7.45-m) diame- ter, five-bladed skewed propeller. Experience has shown that these measures have been very effective. The engine exhausts through an

HDW composite oil- fired/waste heat boiler and heat from the jacket water is applied to a 25t/day Serck-Como evaporator. Auxiliary power is provided by three 1,330-kW, 450V generators driven by

Wartsila 9L20 engines at 900 rpm. An annex to the switchboard contains a 450V/6kV trans- former for supply to the 1,100-kW bowthruster.

The electrical power management system ensures that at least two sets are in service before the thruster can be started from the wheelhouse.

The entire plant is highly automated with comprehensive surveillance, alarms and protec- tion, and a network embracing five process and two workstations, above cylinder head level.

There are two more; on the bridge and in the ship's office. Temperatures in the reefer boxes are continually monitored, with a print-out on demand.

The BV 2700C is of quite modest capacity — the smallest of the "Compact" family of four sizes, all of Panamax beam and with the same depth, design and freeboard draft, as well as a stretched parallel mid-body. The famiky con- sists of BV 3100C, BV 3400C and BV 3700C, with 40-ft. bays in the length and TEU capaci- ties corresponding to their type numbers. The

BV 3700C is a 24-knot design, at 772.3 ft. (235.4 m) in overall length.

All of the sizes have an identical after-part module, including the deckhouse. A seven- cylinder engine can be installed within the existing engine room, but engines with eight or more cylinders, as might be required for higher speeds, would require some intrusion into the after hold, with container cells at the sides.

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BV 2700C Particulars

Length, o.a 631.5 ft. (192.5 m)

Width 105.6 ft. (32.2 m)

Draft 37 ft. (11.3 m)

DW1 34,930

Gross tonnage 31,00

Containers, 20 ft.

In holds 1,348

On hatch covers 1,04

In open No. 6 hold below main deck 114

In open No. 6 hold above main deck 240

Total TEU 2,75

Fuel (HVO) 4,000-cu-m

Ballast water 7,500-cu-

Service speed 22 kn

Range 20,000 nm

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