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Outstanding

OceangoingVessels of 1988 (continued) heads separate the hull of the North

King into fire sections. Her forward section houses the forepeak, BBC fridge compressors and Jastram bowthruster. Accommodations for her crew of 12 and located in the second section, while the third sec- tion contains the hold. The fourth section contains the engine room.

The North King is equipped with two Neunfelder Maschienfabrik cranes, with safe working loads of 30 and 35 tons at outreaches of 79 and 65 feet, respectively. Other deck machinery was supplied by Steen.

ODEN

Gotaverken Arendal

In the last quarter of 1988, ship- builder Gotaverken Arendal AB (GVA) of Gothenburg, Sweden, de- livered Sweden's newest and most modern icebreaker, the 353-1/2-foot

Oden, to her owners, Svenskt Isbry- tarkonsortium KB, Stockholm,

Sweden.

Designed and developed by GVA in collaboration with Canadian Ma- rine Drilling Ltd. of Canada, the

Oden represents an enormous ad- vance in global icebreaker technolo- gy. She has a beam at midships of 82 feet, maximum displacement of

ODEN

Equipment List

Main engines (4) Sulzer

CP propellers Lips

Reduction gears Renk Tacke

Generator engines Sulzer

Emergency generator Cummins

Boilers Sunrod

Computerized control system Asea Master

Mooring winches Pusnes

Integrated navigation systems Sperry

Navigator Robertson-Shipmate

Hull wash/jet thruster system Scanpump

Propeller pumps JW Berg

Towing winch Pusnes

Cranes Hydralift

Lifeboats Harding 13,000 tons, and draft operation range of 23 to 28 feet. Her beam over reamer is over 96 feet, making her, if not the widest, than one of the wide- st icebreakers in the world. The

Oden is powered by four medium- speed, eight-cylinder Sulzer

ZAL40S diesel engines with a total output of 24,500 hp. She is equipped with two dual input single output

Renk Tacke reduction gears and fit- ted with a pair of controllable-pitch

Lips propellers in nozzles. Electric power is supplied by four medium- speed six-cylinder Sulzer AT25H diesel engines.

The powerful Oden has a wide spoon-shaped bow which is relative- ly shorter and more blunt than that of conventional icebreakers. Addi- tionally, along both sides of her intermediate link, between her bow and midships section, she is fitted with reamers, an oblique bulb-like structure, which enables the Oden to open a 96-foot-wide channel through ice, despite having only an 82-foot beam at midships. The

Oden is able to break 1.8 meters (about 6 feet) of level ice at 3 knots.

Her turning radius is one ship length in 0.8 meters (about 2-1/2 feet) of ice.

The Oden, which replaces the 1957-built Oden, has standard quar- ters for 48 people and an operating crew of 26. (continued)

Oden

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