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london glory dards. To prevent oil spills due to collision or grounding, the ship's cargo and ballast tank arrangements satisfy IMO and OPA 90 double- hull tanker requirements. The cargo tank are^r is divided into 14 cargo oil tanks and 12 segregat- ed ballast tanks. Cargo oil tanks are equipped with heating coils, and the cargo handling sys- tem is designed for segregation of three car- goes. Segregated ballast tanks are/equipped stan

Yard: Mitsui Engineering & S

Name: London Glory

Type: Tanker

Owner: Londo

The London Glory is the seventh crude oil tanker built by MES and the fifth ble-hull Suezmax tanker. The ship is and outfitted to exceed all international with inserting systems and fresh air ventilation systems as a safety measure. Finally, the gas recovery system is equipped for prevention of air pollution, and GQftDSS is provided for safe navigation.

The vessel is lowered by a Mitsui B&W 6S70MC. It is classed "+ 100A, Double Hull Oil

Tanker ESP," *IWJ&, Ship Right (SDA, FDA,CM).

London Glory Data

Length 1. 846 ft. (258 m)

Breadth, molded 151 ft. (46 m)

Depth, molded 78.4 ft. (23.9 m)

Draft, fulT load 55.4 ft. (16.9 m)

DWT, sHmmer 149,834

Main/ngine Mitsui B&W 6S70MC

Generator engines Daihatsu erators Nishishiba ergency generator Stamford k machinery Fukushima

VHF radio JRC

SSB radio

Radar Kelvin Hughes

Autopilot Tokimec

Air conditioning .....Namirei

Liferafts Viking

Classification LR hi Li

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Hyundai Heavy Industries

Hual Trooper

RoRo Car Carrier

Leif Hoegh &

Hual Trooper is the second of the two 20,600-dwt RoRos built by Hyundai Heavy

Industries Co., Ltd. (HHI) for Leif Hoegh & Co.

The ship, delivered in March, has 12 car decks, four of them hoistable and eight fixed, capable of carrying high and heavy vehicles. The vessel has a total car carrying capacity of 5,689 units based on standard car size, with the net parking area of 54,069 cu. m.

The two shore ramps on the starboard side of the vessel lead to car deck No. 5. The side ramp, which is 82 ft. (25 m) long, has a maxi- mum loading capacity of 22 metric tons and is arranged for alternative connection to car deck

No. 6. The 125-ft. (38-m) long by 23-ft. (7-m) wide stern quarter ramp has a maximum loading capacity of 150 metric tons. From car deck No. 5, internal ramps are arranged leading to all other car decks.

The ship has nine movable ramps arranged between the decks to increase car loading capacity. As an open web construction, these movable ramps will be flush with surrounding deck when in stowed position. One Ulstein pro- peller CPP type bowthruster (1,800 hp/1,325 kW) is installed and electrically controlled from the wheelhouse.

The vessel is powered by a Hyundai MAN

B&W 7S60MC main engine developing 17,510 bhp at 101.4 rpm, enabling a service speed of 20.1 knots.

Length o.a.^ 656.1 ft. (199.98 m)

Width \ ....106 ft. (32.2 m)

Draft /.....32.8 ft. (10 m)

Main engine ...A.. ./.Hyundai MAN B&W

Auxiliary enginesV Ulstein Bergen

Thrusters ........Ulstein Propeller AS

Generator engines Hyundai MAN B&W

Emergency generator... Ssangyong

Steering controls Porsgrunn

Deck machinery ...J ^...Ulstein Norwinch

Bearings Blohm + Voss

VHF & SSB radios .\ JRC

Radar Kelvin-Hughes

GPS Shipmate

Satcom JRC

Navtex

Sound reception Vingtor

Echosounder Furuno

D.S. log Consilium

Collision avoidance Kelvin Hughes

Lifeboats Norsafe

Liferafts Viking

Waste management system Nor-Control

RoRo equipment design Kvaerner Ships

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