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The passenger/vehicle ferry M/S Normandie, built by Kvaerner Masa-Yards for B.A.I. Brittany Ferries.

Kvaerner Masa-Yards Delivers 27,000-GT Cross-Channel Ferry

The Turku New Shipyard of Finn- ish shipbuilder Kvaerner Masa-

Yards recently delivered the 27,000- gt Cross-Channel passenger/vehicle ferry M/S Normandie to her owners

B.A.I. Brittany Ferries of France.

The Normandie will provide car and passenger service in the Western

Channel and Bay of Biscay areas.

She follows the recent delivery of the 20,000-gt truck/passenger ferry

M/S Barfleur, which was built at

Kvaerner Masa-Yards' Helsinki

New Shipyard.

Mr. Martin Saarikangas, chief executive officer of Kvaerner Masa-

Yards, stated the delivery of the M/

S Normandie bears a special sig- nificance because the contract for her construction was the first one signed by the newly established

Kvaerner Masa-Yards following the bankruptcy of Wartsila Marine.

The M/S Normandie was de- signed expressly with the overnight passenger in mind. The vessel will carry a maximum of 2,120 passen- gers. There will be a total of 774 berths in 217 cabins. Most of the cabins will be four-person family cab- ins, but eight luxury class cabins will also be available. The seating lounge will accommodate 416 deck passen- gers in club class seats.

The 529-foot Normandie has a breadth of 85 feet and draft of 18-1/2 feet. She will have the ability to carry 680 cars or 135 trucks in a total space of over 5,600 feet of car lanes. Among the special features are loading doors at both the bow and stern, enabling cars to be loaded simultaneously on two levels. The vessel's time in port is expected to be a mere one and one- half hours.

The Normandie has a service speed of 20.5 knots and is powered by four

Wartsila 12V 32E engines, producing a total of 23,816 hp at 720 rpms.

Running on heavy fuel oil, each model is a four-stroke single-acting non-re- versible, turbocharged marine diesel with direct fuel injection. Reduction is supplied by two Lohman &

Stolterfoht double input-single out- put reduction gears with built-in thrust bearing and built-in multi-disc clutches. Two highly skewed control- lable-pitch Lips propellers round out the propulsion package.

Auxiliary power is provided by three Wartsila Vasa 6R32 diesel en- gines, each developing 2,460 kw at 750 rpm.

The Normandie began operation last month between Caen, France, and Portsmouth, England. The 99- mile crossing will take six hours in the daytime and an hour longer at night.

Of Brittany Ferries present fleet of 15 vessels, 11 carry passengers as well as cargo, while four are purely cargo ships. In addition to its ser- vice between France and England,

Brittany Ferries also operates be- tween France and Ireland and En- gland and Spain.

The stretch of the Channel west of Dover is crossed by as many as 4.7 million passengers, one million pas- senger cars and 300,000 trucks an- nually. Brittany Ferries has a 52 percent share of the passenger traf- fic, a 55 percent share of the passen- ger car traffic and a 50 percent share of the freight traffic in this part of the Channel.

Other passenger vessels being built by Kvaerner Masa-Yards in- clude three cruise ships for Carnival

Cruise Line, a ferry for Spanish com- pany Compania Trasmediterranea

S.A., and a cruise ship for Majesty

Cruises. Two tankers for Neste Oy are also under construction.

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