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The bulker Northern Venture, built by NKK, has an ice reinforced hull. chronous-type propulsion motors, each directly driving a fixed-pitch propeller via shafting.

CRYSTAL HARMONY

Cruise Ship

MHI

Built at a cost of $200 million, the 48,621-ton luxury cruise liner Crys- tal Harmony, constructed by the

Nagasaki shipyard of Mitsubishi

Heavy Industries (MHI), is the first luxury ship for Los Angeles-based

Crystal Cruises, a subsidiary of Ja- pan's NYK Line.

Reportedly one of the most spa- cious ships in her class, the Baha- mas-registered Crystal Harmony carries 960 passengers in first class luxury. Almost all of of her passen- ger cabins are situated on the out- side, more than half of which have a private veranda. She also features one of the largest penthouses afloat and the first floating casino to be operated by Caesars Palace of Las

Vegas.

The Crystal Harmony's propul- sion power is generated by four Mit- subishi-MAN B&W 8L58/64 large bore medium-speed diesel alterna- tor sets. The output is fed via a 6.6 kv main switchboard to two 12 MW

Cycloconverter drives, each serving its own 11.5 MW synchronous pro- pulsion motors. ABB Marine sup- plied and engineered the Cyclo pro- pulsion drives, generators, switch- board, bowthruster motors, inte- grated machinery and auxiliary automation system.

Plate coolers were installed on the vessel by Kyoto Machinery Co.,

Ltd., the Japanese division of Alfa-

Laval.

Passenger amenities aboard the liner include two heated freshwater pools fitted with movable roofs called Magrodomes, a special piano lounge area with foiliage on the Lido

Deck, an Italian restaurant and Jap- anese restaurant.

DELFIN CARAVELLE

Cruise Ship

Rauma Yards

This past year Finnish shipbuild- er Rauma Yards Oy delivered the

December, 1990 23 second of two smaller luxury cruise liners to Delfin Cruise Ltd., a ship- ping company based in Nauvo, Fin- land.

Christened the Delfin Caravelle by Mrs. Leena Matomaki, wife of the president of the Rauma-Repola

Group, Tauno Matomaki, the lin- er has an overall length of 382 feet, breadth of 56 feet and draft of 14 feet. Her pair of Wartsila Vasa 6R32Ds produce a total of 3,017 hp at 750 rpm. She can accommodate up to 330 passengers in her 178 cabi- ns, including her eight luxury suites fitted with Jacuzzis and balconies.

Delivered by the yard in about one year, the Delfin Caravelle has conference facilities for 200 partici- pants, saunas with a swimming pool and Jacuzzi, duty-free shop, saloon, casino, club/restaurant with danc- ing, nightclub/disco, beauty salon, and hospital quarters. The ship's main restaurant can accommodate all 330 passengers at a single seat- ing.

The Delfin Caravelle will cruise during the summer and autumn from Turku to Visby three times per week, Gotland-Borgholm cruises and trips to Tallinn and the isle of

Saaremaa in Estonia. The line will also arrange 24-hour cruises as well as conference and charter cruises.

Equipment List

Main engines(2) Wartsila Vasa

Auxiliary engines Wartsila Vasa

Alternators Leroy Somer

Propellers & shafts JW Berg

Reduction gears Renk-Tacke

Shaft bearings & seals . Waukesha-Lips

Steering equipment . . . . Wartsila-EES

Bowthruster Ulstein-Liaaen

Fin stabilizers Blohm & Voss

Diesel generators Leroy Somer

Shaft generators Leroy Somer

Heat exchangers GEA Ahlborn/Alfa-Laval

Emer. generator Stamford

Emer. generator engine . . . Cummins

Vacuum toilet Evac

Air cooling compressors .... Sabroe

Davits Schat-Davit

Evaporators Alfa-Laval Nirex

Oil purifiers Alfa-Laval

Radars, log & echo sounder . . . . Krupp Atlas Elektronik

DICTO KNUTSEN

Crude Oil Tanker

Astilleros Espanoles

This year the 797-foot crude oil tanker Dicto Knutsen joined the

Knutsen O.A.S. Shipping A/S fleet, following her delivery by the Bilbao yard of Spanish shipbuilder Astille- ros Espanoles S.A. (AESA).

Owned by K/S Knutsen AABY

Tank, the Norwegian-flag single- screw tanker is fitted with 11 cargo tanks, eight segregated ballast tanks and two slop tanks. She has a dead- weight of 113,131 metric tons at a summer freeboard draft of about 20 feet and 110,135 dwt at a winter freeboard draft of about 21 feet.

Designed with a bulbous bow with transom stern and two-part, fully balanced Willi Becker spade rudder, the Dicto Knutsen is propelled by a single AESA-MAN B&W model 5S70MC diesel engine. The two- stroke, slow-speed directly reversi- ble main engine has a nominal out- put rating of 14,630 bhp at 78 rpm.

Maneuverability is enhanced by a single 2,400-hp Lips controllable- pitch electric bowthruster.

Electrical power generation equipment includes two generating sets, each set consisting of a Bergen

Diesel model KRG-8 engine rated at 1,800 bhp at 720 rpm and an Alcon- za NIR-6.350A-10 type generator of 1,200 kw, 450 V, 60 Hz.

Freshwater generation is supplied by an Alfa-Laval freshwater genera- tor, producing about 30 metric tons per day.

Equipment List

Main engine AESA-MAN B&W

Generators .... Alconza

Generator engines . . . . Bergen Diesel

Emer. generator . . . . .... Alconza

Emer. generator engine Pegaso-Guascor

Oil-fired vertical boilers . . . . . . .San Carlos

Exhaust gas boiler . . . . .San Carlos

Freshwater equipment . . . Alfa-Laval

Spade rudder . . Willi Becker

Bowthruster Lips

Tank cleaning equipment . . . Gunclean

Fire extinguishing equipment . Walter Kidde

Gyrocompass & autopilot . Sperry Marine

Loran C .... Furuno

Echo sounder .... Simrad

Speedlog Atlas

Radar . Kelvin Hughes

ARPA . Kelvin Hughes .... Furuno

Decca Robertson Shipmate

VHF radio telephone Sailor

Mobile telephone . . . .... Siemens

Main receiver & emer. receiver . . . . . . ITT Marine

HORIZON

Cruise Ship

Meyer Werft

This year Chandris Celebrity

Cruises added the 46,811-grt luxury liner Horizon to its fleet following her delivery by Meyer Werft's ship- yard in Papenburg, Germany.

The $185-million Horizon along with her sister ship, the Zenith, cur- rently under construction at Meyer

Werft, are the largest passenger ships ever built in Germany.

The 47,000-grt Horizon has an overall length of about 681 feet, molded breadth of 95 feet and draft of about 24 feet.

The 12-deck ship is propelled by a father-and-son four-engine plant consisting of two MAN B&W 9 L 40/54 "father" engines with an out- put of 8,152 hp at 514 rpm each and two MAN B&W 6 L 40/54 "son" engines, each developing 5,435 hp at 514 rpm.

ABB supplied the complete mod- ular low-voltage switchgear system type MNS for an installed capacity totalling 20,625 kva and a short-cir- cuit current of 160 ka, and the three-phase AC motors for the aux- iliary systems.

Alfa-Laval Industrie of Hamburg,

Germany, supplied three separators for HFO with a three-phase motor and electric switching cabinet and a total of seven lube oil separators, two type WHPX 410 and five type

WHPX 407, with three-phase mo- tors and electric switching cabinets.

The Liberian-flagged, 1,354-pas- (continued)

Equipment List

Main generator engines MHI-MAN B&W

Main generator engine turbochargers MHI

Auxiliary generator engine . . . .Wartsila Diesel

Auxiliary boiler MHI

CP propeller MHI-KaMeWa

Emergency generator engine GM/Tominaga & Co.

Electric propulsion system ABB

Main & auxiliary generator ABB

High voltage switchboard & motor ABB

Power management system .... ABB

Radar & ARPA Krupp Atlas

Doppler sonar Krupp Atlas

Integrated position indicator Racal Decca

INMARSAT Magnavox & JRC

Garbage plant Norsk Hydro

Vacuum toilet system EVAC

Fin stabilizer Sperry Marine

Potable water sterilizer . . . Serck Como

Plate type heat exchanger . . Alfa-Laval