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cated steel went into the ship's construction. Its most prominent feature, a bright red paddlewheel located on the stern, which fully propels the boat, measures 42-ft. in diameter, or the equivalent of a four-story building.

Following its launch. Empress of the North was repo- sitioned to Everett, where it is undergoing final outfit- ting and sea trials before her first scheduled passenger cruise from Seattle to Juneau on August 10, 2003.

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To be known as S-class vessels, the new ships will be built under the Greenship design concept proposed by

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Dr. Chang to reduce the level of tank damage and oil leakage. "We don't want fuel oil tanks to be located at the sides and at the bottom of the ships. If fuel oil tanks are located inside the hulls along the transverse bulk- head, damage to tanks and oil leakage incidents caused by grounding and collisions can be dramatically reduced."

With an overall length of 984 ft. (300 m) and a beam of 140 ft. (42.8 m), the new S-type vessels will be the largest ships in the Evergreen Group-owned fleet. They are able to carry containers 17 rows athwartships on deck and 15 rows athwartships below deck and have 839 reefer plugs. With a dwt of 78,200 tons on a serv- ice draft of (14.2 m). Each vessel has a single 10-cylin- der Mitsubishi Sulzer 10RTA96C main engine devel- oping 74,700bhp (54.900KW) to provide for a service speed of 25.3 knots.

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