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GREAT SHIPS OF 1998

Shipbuilder Astilleros de Sestao - Astiileros

Espanoles Group

Vessel name Navion Britannia

Vessel type Multi-purpose Shuttle Tanker

Operator Statoil/Navion

Astilleros Espanoles has once again proven its prowess in the building of high quality, high value shuttle tanker tonnage with the delivery of Navion Britannia earlier this year. Built at the Astilleros Sestao yard, the ship is for

Norway's Navion, which is an 80/20 joint ven- ture between Statoil and Rasmussen.

Navion Britannia is the first of three in a series for Navion, and is the 17th overall in the company's fleet. Aside from the sophisticated

BL and STL cargo systems found on the most modern vessels of this type, Navion Britannia departed the Sestao yard fully equipped with a submerged turret production (STP) system, making the ship capable not only of submerged loading operations, but of offshore oil produc- tion as well.

While the delivery of a high quality shuttle tanker from the yards of Astilleros Espanoles is hardly news — given the organization's strong history in fulfilling tonnage needs in this spe- cialty niche — Navion Britannia is unique in that it combines the experi- ences of both yard and owner to deliver some interesting refinements.

For example: three loading tankers per section, with two longitudinal bulk- heads instead of one, are offered to reduce the release of volatile organic compounds (VOC) during loading; a fully redundant engine room, divided by a full-height double-insulation lon- gitudinal bulkhead; and direct automation, to receive and process 3,000 signals and act directly on the valves of the several circuits.

The ship's main propulsion is provided by twin two-stroke Manises MAN B&W 6L60MC slow speed diesel engines, with an MCR of 15,600 hp (11,520 kW) at 123 rpm, each driving a six meter CP pro- peller. At 90 percent MCR, the ship's ser- vice speed is 15 knots.

The dynamic positioning system, con- trolled and monitored from the bridge, is completed with two bowthrusters (each 2,200 kW) and one stern thruster (1,400 kW). All thrusters are retractable. To aid ship operations further, the ship fea- tures two highly maneuverable rudders driven by two rotary-vane electro- hydraulic steering gears.

Hardware on the bridge is of the latest design and technology, as the ship is con- trolled by several independent integrated systems, including integrated control and monitoring systems, a cargo control system, a main engines remote control system, a dynamic positioning system, a thruster control system, and an inte- grated navigation system. In fact, the

Novho Brit am

Designer Astilleros Espanoles

Flog Norway

Classification DNV

Contract date February 1996

Float out date September 1997

Delivery date April 1998

Length, o.a 869.4 ft. (265 ra)

Length, b p 841.5 ft. (256.5 ml

Breadth, molded 139.4 ft. (42.5 ml

Depth, molded 72.2 ft. (22 m)

GT 72.110

DWT, design 118,138

DWT, scantling 124,97

Displacement 152,750 tons

Lightweight 27,772 tons

Draft, design 49.2 ft. (15 m)

Draft, scantling 51.3 ft. (15.6 m)

Speed, service (90% ma) 15 knots

Corgo capacity 139,500 cu. m.

Water ballast 52,993 cu. m.

Bunker 3,056.5 ai. m. heavy oil; 162.9 cu. m. diesel oil % high tensile steel 28%

Main engine mftr. Manises Diesel Engine Co.

Main engine type MAN B«W 6L60MC

MCR 11,520 kW at 123 rpm

Ballast tank coating Indasa

Bow thrustera/stern thrusters powered by: Lohef

Bow loading system Hitech Marine (Norway)

Gundean COW lines Consilium Marine

Inert gas plant Permea

Tank radar system Saab

Ballast tank gauging Bquip Saa

Fuel oil level gauging equip

Cargo pumps/centrifugal pumps/ ballast pumps/ engine room pumps Kvaerner Ships Equipment

CP propeller Wortsilo e seal shaft bearings Blohm X Voss

Hamworthy

Sectro-hydraulk steering systems Porsgrunn

Emergency engine MAN-DEMP

Oil-fired boilers Porot

Integrated bridge Kongsberg Norcontrol

DGPS Trimble

Gyro and steering control system C-Pkrlh

Echo sounder Skipper

GMDSS Sailo r facsimile Taiyo cm Aandero

Cargo handling system Simrad

Fire detection system Autronk

Extinguishing system Helen Larsen

Freefoll boat/rescue boat Norsafe tiferofts Viking integrated bridge meets the demanding requirements of DNV notation Watch One.

Navion Britannia is built with a double skin and double bottom along the cargo space, with two longitudinal bulkheads and the correspon- dent transverse bulkheads to from 18 cargo tanks, two slop tanks, and wing and double-bot- tom tanks for water ballast.

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