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New Rescue Ship Class Fitted With

Aquamaster Propulsion

The stand-by/rescue vessel Scott Guardian, equipped with an

Aquamaster propulsion system, is 180 feet (55 m) long with a breadth of 43 ft. (13 m) and depth of 18 ft. (5.5 m).

A new state-of-the-art standby/rescue ves- sel class now in operation has been fitted with

Aquamaster propulsion systems, reportedly giving the vessels excellent maneuverability and control.

The first vessel, Scott Guardian, is in ser- vice with Amerada Hess in the North Sea. The second vessel, Trafalgar Guardian, was taken into service with Enterprise Oil at the Nelson

Field, also in the North Sea. Propulsion on both vessels is by two Aquamaster US 911 units mounted aft; they have a loiter drive

Aquamaster UL 601 retractable unit in the bow. All units are direct diesel driven.

With the Aquamaster propulsion system, the ships rotate on the spot through 360 de- grees in 63 seconds and can remain on station alongside a rig in severe North Sea weather conditions.

This new Sea Guardian class was designed by IMT and built by the Yorkshire Drydock

Company in Hull to the order of the Sunset

Shipping, U.K. The ships are managed and erewed by Seaboard Offshore of Aberdeen.

For more information on Aquamaster

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Kvaerner Masa-Yards Delivers

Fascination To Carnival

The M/S Fascination was delivered to Carni- val Corporation USA by Kvaerner Masa-Yards — the fourth super-cruise liner delivered by

Kvaerner Masa-Yards' Helsinki New Shipyard to Carnival.

M/S Fantasy, the first in the series, was deliv- ered in 1990. Its sisterships, M/S Ecstasy and M/

S Sensation, were delivered in 1991 and 1993, respectively. The fifth and sixth vessels in the series will be delivered in summer 1995 and winter 1996, respectively.

The 70,367-gt M/SFascination can carry 2,600 passengers served by a crew of more than 900.

All cabins were prefabricated and were deliv- ered by Kvaerner Masa-Yards' Piikkio Works.

The vessel has a diesel-electric AC-AC power plant consisting of six diesel generators and two cycloconverter-controlled electrical propulsion motors. The total onboard power developed is 42,240 kW (57,400 hp). There are six thrusters — three forward and three aft with a total power of9,000 kW (12,200 hp). The vessel is 855 ft. (261 m) with a beam of 103 ft. (31.5 m) and draft of 25 ft. (8 m).

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Seamen's Church Honors Industry

Leaders At Annual Awards Dinner

M/S Fascination Equipment List

Main engines Wartsila SuJzer

Propulsion motors ABB Marine

Propellers KaMeWa fin stabilizers Brown Brothers

Ferries Australia Introduces New

Vehicle-Passenger Ferry Design

Ferries Australia, the joint venture between

Western Australia shipyards Austal Ships and

Oceanfast that specializes in the construction of mega ferries, has introduced a 308-ft. (94-m) vehicle-passenger ferry to its design portfolio.

The vessel is based on the Auto Express 79 (AE79) for which the company has secured its first contract with Sea Containers Ltd.

The Auto Express series utilizes Austal's "semi swath" round bilge hull shape and bulbous bows, and incorporates the company's fully computer- ized stabilizing system, Ocean Leveller, to en- sure optimal passenger comfort. The Ocean

Leveller stabilizing system has a central micro- processor system which incorporates a sophisti- cated high speed monitoring and control algo- rithm, constantly monitoring the output from the motion sensors and controlling the fin and flap angles to maximize passenger comfort.

The AE94 has a carrying capacity of 1,000 passengers and 252 cars.

Chris Norman, managing director of Ferries

Australia, said, "With a diesel/gearbox/wateijet propulsion system, speeds of up to 39 knots will be achieved."

The ferry is designed to be 308 ft. long, with a breadth of 88.5 ft. (27 m) and draft of 8 ft. (2.5 m), with a deadweight of approximately 500 tons.

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Circle 12 on Reader Service Card (L. to r.) David A. Olsen, chairman & CEO, Johnson & Higgins; The

Rev. Peter Larom, executive director, The Seamen's Church

Institute; and Malcolm W. MacLeod, president & CEO, Moran

Towing Corp.

More than 400 guests gathered at The Seamen's

Church Institute's 16th Annual Awards Dinner to honor David A. Olsen, chairman and CEO of

Johnson & Higgins, a large privately-held insur- ance brokerage and employee benefits consulting firm, and others for their contributions to mari- time safety.

The Awards Dinner raised $65,000 for the

Institute's 1994 Annual fund.

Mr. Olsen received the Silver Bell Award, which is presented annually by the Institute to an individual in recognition of his or her out- standing leadership in the maritime community.

The bell was chosen as an award because of its historical significance in religious ceremonies from early times and its use on board ships in ancient times.

Sharing in the honors of the evening were several people who through personal or profes- sional endeavors have also contributed to mari- time safety. The Institute gave Lifesaving Awards to the following people:

Sandy Hook Pilot Apprentices Tom Walsh,

Kevin McNamara, Paul Klein and New York

City Police (Scuba Unit) OfficersDaniel Sharkey and John Dalton for carrying out a heroic effort to rescue a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crashed near Ambrose Light last fall as Hurricane Emily approached New York Harbor, and U.S. Coast

Guard Group New York whose icebreakers as- sisted 367 vessels in the 1994 ice season.

The Institute gave Distinguished Service

Awards to VAdm. Paul A. Welling upon his retirement from the U.S. Coast Guard, and

Charles L. Black, Jr., a scholar and the co- author of The Law of Admiralty.

This year, the Institute also introduced the

Seamanship Award, which recognizes the accom- plishments made by recreational boaters to the maritime community. Ted Seymour, the first

African-American to sail around the world was the first recipient of this award.

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GRP Div. Of Avondale Christens

Third Coastal Minehunter > ~* ^ >T "V-* ( . 1 M ' i" | r||g

MHC-56, the third coastal minehunter ship being built for the Navy by the Glass Reinforced

Plastic (GRP) Division of Avondale Industries,

Inc., was christened Kingfisher in ceremonies at the Gulfport, Miss, shipyard. It is the fifth ship in the Navy's MHC-51 (Osprey) class coastal minehunter program, and the third U.S. Navy ship to bear the nameKingfisher. MHC-51-class ships are reportedly the world's largest glass reinforced plastic ships and the first U.S. Navy ships designed solely for minehunting. Their mission is to clear shore areas, harbors and coastal and ocean waters of acoustic, magnetic, and pressure/contact type mines utilizing recon- naissance, classification and neutralization tac- tics. The sponsor of the new ship was Elizabeth

Fisher, an actress, model and dancer who enter- tained thousands of troops during WWII in con- junction with the ISO. Kingfisher is 187 ft. (57 m) long, with a beam of 35 ft. (11 m) and draft of 10 ft. (3 m).

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