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Main Particulars

Designer GKN Westland Aerospace

Flag Canada

Delivery date April 1998

Length, o.a 93.5 ft. (28.5 m)

Breadth over inflated skirt 39.4 ft. (12 m)

Lightweight 43,000 kg

DWT 27,000 kg

Speed, service 50 knots

Cargo capacity 20,000 kg

Bunker 11,000 L

Fuel consumption 615 L/hr

Main engine mftr. Caterpillar, 3412 TTA

Propellers Hoffman

Generator engines Lister-Petter

VHF Radio Northern Airborne Technologies

Radar Furuno

Compass Sperry

GPS Leica

Air conditioning Anex

Removable sea crane Palfinger

Winch, Capstan North Sea Winches

January, 1999 Circle 269 on Reader Service Card flood relief, ice breaking, fire fighting and oil spill control. The hovercraft joined its prede- cessor the AP1-88 half well deck craft, also built by GKNWAe, working in the St.

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Subcontractor/ licensee Hike Metal Products

Vessel name Sipu Muin

Vessel type Hovercraft

Owner/operator Canadian Coast Guard

In April, the Canadian Coast Guard received the first of two new amphibious hovercrafts built by GKN Westland Aerospace (GKNWAe) of the U.K. The new type of craft, called the Dash 400, can undertake the duties required of a workboat, but reportedly at less cost and with improved performance. The Dash 400 can operate on and off beaches, making most areas accessible and avoiding the cost of harbor facili- ties; can travel over both deep and shallow water, mud, marshland, sand, ice, and snow; has high speed and work capacity; and is unaffect- ed by underwater obstructions.

The Dash 400 makes use of an air cushion with a mean depth of 4.6 ft. (1.4 m) between the under- side of the hull and the surface below. The cushion is contained beneath the craft by a flexible skirt system around the hull. The craft can be operated by one crewmem- ber, but a radar operator/navigator is normally onboard.

The Canadian Coast Guard's

Dash 400 has been named Sipu

Muin. It is of the half well deck con- figuration, although Dash 400s are also available in long well deck.

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