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SHIP & BOATBUILDING TECHNOLOGY

Ferguson Wins Order For

Fishery Research Vessel

The Scottish Office of Agriculture,

Environment and Fisheries Department has ordered a single screw diesel electric fishery research vessel from Ferguson Schipbuilders,

Ltd. Dubbed Scotia, the vessel was designed by

Skipsteknisk AS for worldwide service and com- bines the essential features of modern hydro- graphic research ships with those of a sophisti- cated marine trawler.

The vessel's navigation outfit includes one

Furuno FAR2835 radar and one Furuno

FR2110/6/5 radar, one Decca Navigator and

Loran C Receiver system, two differential GPS satellite receiver, two video/radar plotters, two

Robertson RGC11 gyro compasses and one

Lilley & Gillie Setreline Mk X magnetic com- pass. Scotia is fitted with five electro-hydraulic

Aukra deck cranes, complete with remote con- trol faciltities for the handling of deck and research equipment. In addition, a large and complex, low pressure hydraulic system is fit-

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Circle 286 on Reader Service Card ted, comprising eight Allweiler screw type pumps ranging from 30 to 150 kW and power- ing 16 winches of four to 34-ton-pull.

The vessel's sonar outfit includes two deepwa- ter echosounders with four transducers, a retractable long-range sonar, a retractable short-range sonar, a multi-beam echo sounder system, four net monitoring systems, two acoustic doppler current provilers and a navi- gation echo sounder. Scotia is powered by a diesel electric system comprised of three

Wartsila 9L20 alternator sets, each producing 1,485 kW at 1,000 rpm. Aft of the engine room are two 1,500 kW DC propulsion motors driving a LIPS five-bladed fixed pitch propeller, designed for silent running at 11 knots.

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