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GDANSKA STOCZNIA REMONTOWA

Eastern Europe

Gdansk Shipyard Leads With Myriad of Conversions/Repairs

Prerow arrived at the yard in December 2000 for conversion into a cable repair vessel.

Presently Lodbrog is property of the

Danish company, Alcatel Submarine

Networks Marine, and Pretow to Lux- shipping Co., France. Both vessels will be delivered to the shipowner in October 2001, at which time they will conform their purpose, appearance and names; they will also be adapted to the inspec- tion and repair of underwater telecom- munications cables.

While the project of the conversion and part of the technical documentation were prepared by a Norwegian compa- ny, the remainder of the technical and most of the electrical documentation were prepared by Remontowa's Design office.

The converted vessels will house a special appliance for controlling the ten- sion of the cables laid, their transporta- tion and repair. The shipyard will also install four new electric generators — powered at 9 MW, that will supply (by a distributor of 6.6 kV and 380V) the cables devices and four tunnel thrusters on each vessel, which is an essential component during the dynamic posi- tioning of ships at work.

In addition to installing new living and social quarters onboard, the shipyard plans to add new superstructures and navigation bridges to the vessel, as well as six special cable tanks.

Also occurring this summer at the yard was the modernization of the 259 x 45 ft. (78.9 x 13.6 m) St. Barbara.

Owned by oil and gas search and explo- ration company Miliana Shipping Com- pany, the vessel is used for research and geologic work, and drilling and diving.

St. Barbara's three main engines, gear- ing and assembly sets were repaired; two tailshafts with power propellers, two tubular thrusters and steering sets were disassembled and modernized. The vessels' moonpools were modified, and its Stern A-Frame for special research

Gdansk Shiprepair Yard Remontowa has expanded its formidable reputation with the completion of two RoRo to cableship conversions. Located in

Poland, the yard took on its premiere job within this niche in December 2000 when it converted the vessel Prerow, fol- lowed by Lodbrog in January 2001. The sisterships, which measure 459 x 66 ft. (140 x 20 m), were built at BEB Math- ias - Thesen - Werfit in Wiesmar, Ger- many in 1983 and 1985, respectively.

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