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Driver, was delivered to Swedish owner Frontline AB in early April of this year by South Korean builder

Hyundai Heavy Industries Ltd. (HHI).

The 934-foot Front Driver has a breadth of 148 feet, depth of 98 feet and scantling draft of 61 feet. The

FRONT DRIVER

Equipment List

Main engine . Hyundai-MAN B&W

Hose handling & provision cranes . Hyundai-Normarine

Cargo hatch covers Hyundai-Kayaba

Monitoring system .... Hyundai-Terasaki

Fire detection Salwico

Auxiliary engine Ssangyong-Wartsila

Emergency generator.. ... MAN B&W-Demp

Echo sounder Furuno

Magnetic compass Plath

Log JRC

Satnav/weather fax Furuno

Radio direction finder.. JRC

Radar Krupp Atlas

Gyrocompass/autopilot Plath vessel has nine cargo holds and five pairs of side water ballast tanks.

The ballast tanks are common with the double bottom spaces in way of the cargo holds. There are also three slop tanks.

The Front Driver is able to load or discharge three different kinds of cargo oil simultaneously. The cargo pumping system is designed to achieve a maximum discharge rate of 12,000 cubic meters per hour with all three Shinko vertical centrifugal main cargo pumps and the maxi- mum loading rate is about 14,800 cubic meters per hour. There is also a steam-driven cargo stripping pump of 200 cubic meters capacity and a cargo oil stripping eductor rated at 450 cubic meters per hour.

Propulsion is provided by a

Hyundai-built MAN B&W low speed 6S70MC diesel, with an MCR of 15,400 kw (20,940 bhp) at 88 rpms.

The main engine burns 600 est heavy fuel oil at 50 degrees C and drives an 8-meter-diameter NiAl propeller of a right-hand rotating type. The electrohydraulic, two-ram four-cylinder steering gear is rated at 300 tm.

Electric power is supplied by three

Ssangyong-Wartsila auxiliary die- sel generating sets. Two of these are 6R22/26 with an output of720 kw at 720 rpm, while the third is 6R32D rated at 1,100 kw. The ship is also fitted with an emergency generat- ing set with an output of 150 kw.

HANNOVER EXPRESS

Samsung Shipbuilding

Circle 75 on Reader Service Card

The largest Panamax class containership built to date, the 4,422-TEU Hannover Express, was delivered by Samsung Shipbuilding in the first quarter of 1991. She is capable of loading up to 11 rows of boxes below deck, and up to 13 rows above hatches.

The first of a series of five ships contracted with Samsung by Ger-

December, 1991 man shipping line Hapag Lloyd, the 965-foot boxship has a 106-foot breadth, design draft of 39 feet and deadweight of 67,686 tons at her scantling draft of 44 feet.

The Germanischer Lloyd-classed,

German-flagged Hannover Express has a total of seven cellular con- tainer holds, six forward and one aft, arranged with cellguides to ac- commodate mixed stowage in TEUs and FEUs.

The forward container holds are designed to carry dangerous goods containers, while the aft hold is de- signed for normal dry container goods. The two lowest tiers of the

No. 3 hold can also be used for the transport of normal bulk cargoes.

Of particular note on the

Hannover Express is a complete navigation package from Anschuetz of Kiel. In accordance with the "Ship of the Future" concept, the compo- nents of the navigation equipment are integrated into a modern opera-

HANNOVER EXPRESS

Equipment List

Main engine Hyundai-MAN B&W

Propeller Thyssen (Ostermann)

Diesel generator engine Daihatsu

Bow thruster Lips

Gyro/autopilot Anschuetz

Radio/satcom Hagenuk

Radar/total navigation system ... Krupp Atlas

Switchboard/starters ABB

Automation/M/E BMS DMT

Paint Hempel/IPK

Steering gear Hatlapa

Deck machinery Broehl

Hatch cover MacGregor Navire-Kayaba

Lifeboat E. Hatecke

Anti-heeling system Hopp

Container fittings MEC

Paneling system B + V

Refrigeration plant Sabroe

Tank level gage CWSS

Boiler and economizer Aalborg

Centrifugal pump Allweiler

FW generator Serck Como

Purifier Westfalia

Lighting Aqua Signal tions and onboard managing center.

The system, therefore, fulfills the requirements for one-man bridge operation. For details, see "Anschutz

Supplies Navigation Package For 'Hannover Express'" in this issue.

The single-screw boxship is pow- ered by a Hyundai-MAN B&W su- per-long stroke 9K90MC diesel en- gine, rated at 49,640 hp at 93 rpm and incorporating a Turbo Com- pound System of 1,450 kw. Her service speed is 23 knots.

The boxship is also equipped with a 2,500-kw Lips bow thruster with an anti-suction tunnel to aid ma- neuverability.

HELICE

Kvaerner Govan

Circle 86 on Reader Service Card

The first in a series of four 56,700- cubic-meter-capacity LPG carriers, the Helice, has been delivered to owner Spey Marine by the Glasgow shipyard of Kvaerner Govan.

Now operating as part of the Myre

Havtor pool in worldwide trading, the 672-foot Helice has a breadth of 105-1/2 feet, hull depth of 66 feet, design draft of 34 feet and dead- weight of 49,513 tons.

The Helice incorporates a num- ber of firsts. Besides being the first in a series of four, she also is the first

LPG carrier built by Kvaerner

Govan. Additionally, the Helice is reportedly the first merchant ship to enter service fully equipped with

GMDSS. The system includes JRC

Inmarsat standard A and standard

C terminals; four fixed Raytheon

VHF radiotelephones; three Jotron

HELICE

Equipment List

Main engine Kvaerner Kincaid-Sulzer

Propeller Stone Manganese

Diesel alternators ... Bergen Diesel

Cargo pumps . Kvaerner Eureka

Bow thruster Brunvoll

Steering gear Frydenbo

Engine remote control Sulzer

Inmarsat A & C terminals.. JRC

VHF radiotelephones Raytheon

EPIRBs Jotron

GPS satnav Raytheon

Back-up radio JRC

Radar & ARPA Raytheon

Gyrocompass/autopilot.... Yokogawa

Echo sounder, doppler log and weatherfax JRC

Central alarm monitoring.. Autronica

EPIRBS; a Raytheon GPS satnav; and a JRC MF/HF back-up radio station.

As for her cargo flexibility, the

Helice is able to carry cargoes with a specific gravity of 0.97 at 98 percent capacity in cargo tanks No. 2 and

No. 3, as well as 70 percent in her other two tanks. This is unusual, since most LPG carriers can only carry cargoes with high specific gravities in tanks at 70 percent ca- pacity.

Propulsion is provided by a

Kvaerner Kincaid-Sulzer 6RTA62 slow-speed diesel engine, develop- ing 15,000 bhp at 106 rpm. The main engine drives a four-blade fixed-pitch Stone Manganese pro- peller.

Three 1,200-kw Bergen KRG8 diesel alternators supply ship's elec- trical power.

JAMES CLARK ROSS

Swan Hunter

Circle 74 on Reader Service Card

A first class research vessel, the 7,400-ton RRS James Clark Ross, emerged from the Wallsend (U.K.) yard of Swan Hunter Shipbuilders and was delivered to the Natural

Environment Research Council (NERC).

Designed as a multi-role ship, the

JAMES CLARK ROSS

Equipment List

Propulsion engines (4) Wartsila Vasa

Propeller Stone Manganese

Thrusters Elliot White Gill

Directional sonar Furuno

Bow thruster motor GEC-Alsthom

Stern thruster motor

Hydraulic Power Systems/Rexroth

Emergency generator engine . Caterpillar

Generators GEC

Echo sounders Simrad

Integrated bridge system.. Sperry Marine

GPS receiver Trimbl

Gem-based joystick controls GEC

Steering controls Sperry Marine

Jib cranes Hagglunds

Booms Schat Davit

Hold covers MacGregor Navire

Coatings International Paint

Autopilot Sperry Marine

Pumps Hamworthy

Freshwater generators Alfa Laval 325-foot-long by 62-foot-beam James

Clark Ross replaces the 35-year-old 1,554-grt John Biscoe. The Ross is capable of operating safely in Polar waters for the transportation of cargo and personnel from the U.K. and

South Atlantic ports to research sta- tions maintained by the British

Antarctic Survey (BAS), one of the

Council's component institutes, in the Antarctic. Additionally, she is able to discharge cargo without the assistance of normal port facilities such as quays and cranes, and carry out a wide variety of marine science programs in the Southern Ocean and worldwide. (continued next page) 21

Conger, chemical tanker built by Lindenau.