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••••Sl'SF'-™ with the first inaugural sailing scheduled to depart on

December 2.

The vessel is 856 ft. (260.9 m) long and 106 ft. (32.3 m) wide, with a draft of 26 ft. (7.9 m), and accommodations for 900 passengers and 900 crew members. The cost of building the vessel, according to

Princess Cruises' figures, was more than $300 million.

The vessel is registered in Italy, and classed by both

Lloyd's and RINA. Design of the Sun Princess was pro- vided by Njal Eide, Oslo, Norway, and £iacomo

Mortola, Genoa, Italy.

Sun Princess is equipped wjfrf STN Atlas

Elektronik's NACOS 45-2 Nqykjation Command

I on P&O's Oriana, vhich has the capaci :ity to idinq providing

System — the very system but with minor advances generate planned roujraata while also input and digital copi^ction of electronic chart data for the Multipilot. lire navigation system provides real- time compap«^ns between paper charts and ECDIS, and is compatible with the DX90-S57 data format of rographic authorities, as well as other for- s the

P&O's Sun Princess was scheduled to kick off its inaugural season of

Caribbean cruises on December 2.

According to reports from Princess Cruises, a sub- sidiary of The Pennisular and Oriental Steam

Navigation Company (P&O), its 77,000-ton new- building Sun Princess wjjKbe the largest cruise ship afloat when it is^delivered from Fincantieri's

Monfalcone yardJ)NO weeks ahead of schedule natiprfalhydi such a those offered by C-Map and the British

Royal Navy's ARCS rasterscan data system.

The launch of Sun Princess marked the 30th anniversary of Princess Cruises. The new vessel is the first of the new Grand class of ships that will be launched by Princess over the next three years. Dawn

Princess, sistership to the vessel about to be launched, will debut in the spring of 1997, and another vessel, the 104,000-ton Grand Princess, is also scheduled for launch in 1997.

For information on P&O

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Sun Princess Set To Debut Ahead Of Schedule

Trinity Marine yard Moss Point Marine, Moss Point, Miss., recently delivered the J.

George Betz to Bouchard Transportation of Hicksville, N.Y. The vessel is a 1 27-ft. (38.7- m) oceangoing tug, powered by two General Motors EMD 16-6454 F7B diesels, devel- oping a total of 6,140 bph. The diesels drive 140-in., 91-in. diameter, five-blade Bird

Johnson propellers through Falk 3040 reverse/reduction gears with a ratio of 4.354:1.

The vessel has a width ot 37 ft. (11.2 m), a 19-ft. (5.7-m) draft, and is equipped with three lEC/Baylor 99 kW generators, driven by three Detroit Diesel 8-V71 engines. A

Markey tow winch with 2,250 ft. (685.8 m) of wire with 120,000 lbs. of line pull will enable the tug to tow on the hawser. Bollard pull is estimated at 154,000 lbs. The ves- sel can carry 169,000 gallons of fuel, 4,800 gallons of oil, and 8,500 gallons of potable water. J. George Betz is classed to ABS Maltese Cross A1 towing service standards. The vessel is the 13th tug built by a Trinity shipyard for the New York company since 1969, and was christened recently in New Orleans by Joyce Betz, widow of J. George Betz, the vessel's namesake, who was a long-time executive at Bouchard. • ^^ ity ffj I tk*jj ui'ji f» • i?»!iiW ii i Si! re)»i d [Bjagl : ; •B - . - HP^I^^iK^^^TOBBBK,

Meyer Werft To Build More 14,800-GT Passenger Vessels For

Indonesia

In early No- I vember, the I

Republic of In- I donesia placed I an order with F " "

Meyer Werft 7Cj|BM

Shipyard of

Papenburg, I

Germany, for I two more 14,800-gt passenger vessels for inter-island traffic. Upon delivery of the new ships by the end of 1998, the yard will have delivered a total of 26 ships — 20 passenger ships, five cargo/passenger vessels, and one gas tanker — to Indonesia.

The latest order is for replicas of the Dobonsolo type, with a length of 480.6 ft. (146.5 m) and a width of 76.7 ft. (23.4 m).

The vessels will have a capacity of approximately 2,000 pas- sengers.

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DelK^ry Of First Conofeeder 200 Series Vessel, M/V Bermuda Islander

Till^^hipyards, an associated yard of Conoship In- ternational, delivered the M/V Bermuda Islander to its Dutch owner Armada Shipping and Trading upon successful comple- tion of sea trads. The vessel is the first of a new Conofeeder 200 Series, ana\nll maintain a weekly container liner service between New Yori^New Jersey, and the tropical island.

Bermuda Islanders 295.2 ft. (90 m) long, and 45.1 ft. (13.7 m) wide, and operate^at 13.5 knots. The vessel has a loaded container capacity of TEU, and is powered by a non- reversible, four-stroke, ii\ine diesel engine driving a four- bladed propeller through a reduction gearbox. The vessel was constructed in compliance wiClythe rules and regulations of

Bureau Veritas designation I 3.3VCargo ship/Containership

Deepsea +mach. Aut-MS Iceclass l^L and in agreement with the standards of the Netherlands Shipping Inspectorate.

Five more Conofeeder 200 vessels areSqarrerkly on order.

Conoship International's Conofeeder range coTteisls of contain- er vessels with capacities of between 200 and 900 TEUs.

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