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Builder Blount Industries, ln<.

Vessel name Grande Caribe

Vessel type Passenger cruise ship

Owner/operator ACCI

Blount Industries,

Inc.'s Grande Caribe made its maiden voyage on June 29, 1997. The vessel operates overnight coastal cruises covering areas from Labrador,

Canada to parts of

Central and South

America and the Amazon

River. The vessel's hull is steel constructed with an aluminum super- structure. It is powered by two DX842LE MAN diesel engines producing 575 bhp at 1,800 rpm.

The engines turn two, 4- blade 44 x 34 in. Ellis propellers through Twin

Disc MG-518 gears, with a 3:1 reduction, achieving a service speed of 10 knots. Grande Caribe marked the 294th vessel and the tenth cruise ship designed and built at Blount Shipyard. The ves- sel, which replaced American

Caribbean Crusie Lines' (ACCL)

Caribbean Prince, features a 100- passenger vista view lounge on the sun deck and sound deadening enclosures for all of the ship's machinery. The vessel meets all

SOLAS requirements for coastal cruising.

Grande Caribe Main Particulars

Length, o.o 183 ft. (56 m)

Beam 40 ft. (12.2 m)

Depth 9 ft. (2.74 ml

Draft, design 6.3 fl. (1.9 ml

Complement 100 passengers plus 19 crew

Delivery dote June 29,1997

Main propulsion 12) MAN D24S42LE

Marine gear (2) Twin Disc MG-518 3:1 reduction

Propellers (2) Ellis, Bronze 4Blode 44 x 34-in.

Service power (3) MAN D2866LXE

Emergency generator Cummins 100 IcW 240 V

Bow thruster Weynor DPC75 hydraulic driven by

Cummins 4BT3.9 64 bhp at 2,200 rpm

Engine controls Electronic Mathers MicroCommanders

Steering system Wagner Hydraulic

Service speed 10 knots

Marine sanitation device Omnipure 12 MX

Water makers (2) Sea Recovery 3,300 gal/day

Fuel oil capacity 8,424 gal

Lube oil capacity 752 gal

Waste oil capacity 2 gal

Potable water 6,094 gal

Gray water 1,475 gal

Sewage holding 2,950 gal

Rador Furuno

VHF/SSB radios Icom

Compass Ritchie magnetic; Fluxcore electronic

Flag U.S.

Majestic Star

Builder Atlantic Marine, Inc.

Vessel name Majestic Star

Vessel type Gaming vessel

Owner/operator .. .Majestic Star Casino LLC

Majestic Star — a 360-ft. (109.7-m) vessel built by Atlantic Marine Shipbuildng and designed by Guido Perla & Associates, Inc. (GPA) — went into service in Buffington

Majestic Star Main Particulars

Floo ...U S 360 ft. (109.7 m) 330 ft. (100.5 m) 76 ft. (23.2 m) over 4,000 GT 11.4 ft. (3.5 m) 55,030 gal 250 goL/hr.

Totol hp 4,000 hp (4) Schottel Z-drives SRP 550 (4) CAT 3516 1,825 kW

Emergency generator CAT 3908TA

Harbor, Ind., last September. GPA Seattle provided design and project engineering sup- port including detailed lofting, composite drawings and piping dtails, and electrical design for the integrated diesel electric plant. The $40 million vessel is driven by two bow and two stern Schottel Z drives pow- ered by 1,000 hp electric motors with power from four Caterpillar 3516 1,825-kW diesel engines. The vessel provides more than 40,000 sq. ft. of gaming space, with interior decoration by Directions in Design.

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Schottel

VHF Rodio

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A/C

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