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tries Inc. delivered one of the world's most luxurious cruise ves- sels, the Royal Viking Sun, to Royal

Viking Line.

At 38,000 gross tons, the new

Royal Viking Sun is almost a third larger than existing Royal Viking ships, yet carries only 740 passen- gers in 370 staterooms. She has larg- er cabins, more open deck space and more public room space per passen- ger than most other cruise vessels— either afloat or under construction.

One hundred twenty-six of the

Royal Viking Sun's 370 cabins are deluxe staterooms, all, except four, with a private outside veranda.

The eight-deck Royal Viking Sun has an overall length of 669 feet, molded breadth of 95 feet and draft of 23 feet. Her propulsion system features four rubber-mounted eight-cylinder ZA40 Wartsila-Sulzer main diesel engines developing a total of 28,161 hp. She is fitted with two Liaaen controllable pitch pro- pellers and has a speed of 21-1/2 knots.

Auxiliary power is supplied by three Wartsila-Vasa 8R32D diesel engines and five Leroy Somer rub- ber-mounted generators.

Other equipment includes Blohm & Voss retractable stabilizers to re- duce rolling to a minimum; two rub- ber-mounted Liaaen bowthruster units; twin rudders; and Frydenbo electrohydraulic steering gear. The ship's firefighting equipment, hos- pital and medical equipment, weld- ing gas central and distribution sys- tem, electrical welding equipment, high pressure cleaning equipment, gas meters and measuring equip- ment were all supplied by Unitor

Ships Service of Norway.

Many of the traditional features found in other Royal Viking cruise ships have been retained in the design of the Royal Viking Sun. For example, the ship features an unob- structed Promenade Deck circling the ship and her main dining room has been designed to accommodate all of the passengers at a single seat- ing.

ROYAL VIKING SUN

Equipment List

Main engines(4) Sulzer-Wartsila

CP propellers Liaaen

Generator engines Wartsila-Vasa

Generators Leroy Somers

Stabilizers Blohm & Voss

Bowthrusters Liaaen

Steering gear Frydenbo

Firefighting, hospital, medical, cleaning, electrical welding & measuring equipment Unitor

Gas meters Unito

SEABOURN PRIDE

Schichau Seebeckwerft

In November of 1988, Schichau

Seebeckwerft AG of Bremerhaven,

West Germany, delivered the state- of-the-art, luxury cruise liner Sea- bourn Pride to owners Seabourn

Cruise Line, San Francisco, Calif.

The elegant, all-suite Seabourn

Pride is 440 feet in length, with a beam of 63 feet, design draft of 16.4 feet and gross registered tonnage of 10,000. She is powered by a Bergen diesel propulsion plant that pro- duces about 5,846 hp. She can reach speeds in excess of 19 knots.

The six-deck Seabourn Pride, which flys the Norwegian flag, can accommodate 212 passengers in ele- gant and spacious outside suites.

Classed by Det norske Veritas, + 1A1 Ice C, passenger ship for unres- tricted service, EO, to Nat B., the

Seabourn Pride features a broad range of cruise amenities and activi- ties. The ship has a complete health spa and fitness center, swimming pool, lounges and indoor and out- door verandas. There is an observa- tion lounge for stargazing on the top deck called the Constellation Room and a second lounge, the Nautilus

Room, located on the lower deck for observing underwater marine life.

Underwater viewing in the ship's

Nautilus Room is made possible by two thick plates of glass, one in the outer hull where high-powered

With rain and sea clutter circuits OFF on PATHFINDER/ST ARPA, sea clutter extends 1.8 to 2 miles from ship, ice floe belts appear 320° to 35°, additional ice clutter scattered beyond sea clutter 270° to 320° (Thick lines at 230° and 155° are RACONS).

With rain and sea clutter circuits ON, the radar picture is absolutely "clean" Sea and ice clutter are gone. All targets previously masked are clearly visible.

Raytheon PATHFINDER/ST.

Superior Technology Provides

Superior Target Detection.

True Motion with

Electronic Plotting or ARPA.

Raytheon sets radar performance stan- dards for the 21st century with technolo- gy breakthroughs that virtually eliminate noise, interference and clutter, while rec- ognizing and displaying even weak tar- gets typically lost on other radars.

The heart of this improved radar system is Raytheon's exclusive five-stage signal processing.. .we call it Superior

Technology.

ST for short.

Combined with higher performance transmitters and receivers, and the latest raster displays, ST provides performance levels never before available. Now, with

PATHFINDER/ST, your vessels-and their crews-can have an important extra mea- sure of safety and efficiency, including a unique Safety-Coded CPA Circle, which shows course selections for safest CPAs.

PATHFINDER/ST is available as an

ARPA or a True Motion/Relative Motion display with Electronic Plotting. These displays can easily retrofit the displays in older Raytheon Bright Display Radar

Systems, and can be high-performance repeaters for radars of most other manufacturers.

When interfaced with an SNA-91 Integrat- ed Bridge Display, the PATHFINDER/ST

ARPA also becomes a key sensor/deci- sion-aid in a complete shipboard naviga- tion and control system.

Near-Perfect

Target Detection.

Using increased signal-to-noise levels, high dynamic range, precisely matched pulse bandwidths, and exclusive Rain

Rate circuits, PATHFINDER/ST receiv- ers faithfully capture target returns even in severe clutter.

PATHFINDER/ST multistage processing analyzes, compares, tests, and samples the received signal so that all detected targets, no matter how weak in signal strength, are distinguished from clutter and clearly displayed. 20 Circle 180 on Reader Service Card Maritime Reporter/Engineering News