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CRUISE SHIPPING REVIEW

To Cruise Or Not To Cruise, Really, Is Not The Question (Continued from page 29) cabin space. While the project is not dead, adequate financing to support the original large ship size is evidently not possible at this time, and the project has reported- ly been scaled down accordingly.

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R.One is the first in a series of six luxu- ry vessels for Renaissance Cruises being built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique at St.

Nazaire. The 30,277-gt R.One offers 10- day cruises in the Aegean and Eastern

Mediterranean, working out of Piraeus to

Israel, Cyprus, Rhodes, Kusadasi and

Crete. On the basis of a double-occupan- cy, 684-passenger complement, the crew- to-passenger ratio is nearly one-to-two, while the passenger space ratio (PSR), a factor of the vessels enclosed volume, rates among the largest in the industry for a ship of her size. Although Wartsila NSD has since introduced a new 320 mm-bore medium-speed series, the longer-stroke

Wartsila 32, the prime movers ordered for the R.One are of the well-proven Vasa 32 design in its environmentally-attuned Low

NOx version. Each of the resiliently- mounted Wartsila diesels has a rating of 4,860-kW at 720-rpm, and operates on 380 cSt heavy fuel oil. The bank of four engines drives a corresponding number of 4.6-MW GEC Alstom alternators located immediately beyond the bulkhead separat- ing the diesel engine compartment from the generator propulsion room. Energy is fed to the pair of Cegelec 6.75-MW propulsion motors positioned forward of the main generators, and acting on the long shaftlines turning the twin propellers.

The converter rooms and main switch- board are accommodated at an intermedi- ate level in the generator propulsion room.

The maximum speed of 18 knots required to fulfill the vessel's regular cruis- ing schedule necessitates only three main generators to be run. The added dimen- sion to the system conferred by the fourth primary genset offers the scope, if required, to make transits at 21 knots, while also providing all requisite power for air-conditioning and ship's services.

Having just two of the units engaged, feeding energy to both propulsion motors and thereby turning both shafts, gives an 11-knot capability in good weather.

Shipboard equipment specialist

MacGregor was contracted as the turnkey supplier for the provision stores and asso- ciated reefer plant for the R.One.

A project perhaps more based in the realm of reality was American

Classic Voyages (AMCV) announcement of a letter of intent to build a cruise ship at Ingalls

Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss.

While the final contract is still not hand, pending final detail in analysis, the two-ship project seems a near certainty and will provide Hawaii inter-island ser- vice. The letter of intent calls for

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