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Rolls-Royce provided the design and major equipment for the new Norwegian

Coastguard multi-role vessel K/V

Harstad built by Aker's Søviknes yard in west Norway based on steelwork from

Aker Tulcea in Romania. The ship is owned by Remøy Shipping, who will operate it on long term charter to

Kystvakten. K/V Harstad will under- take a variety of coastguard and EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) manage- ment roles. These include offshore standby and rescue, firefighting, sal- vage, and general law enforcement operations and fishery control.

One important duty will be pollution prevention. There is concern over the rapidly increasing oil tanker traffic from

Russian ports along the coastline of northern Norway, with the risk of a dis- abled vessel grounding and causing an oil spill. K/VHarstad is therefore fitted for emergency towing of tankers up to about 200,000 dwt and spill clean-up.

The vessel will be manned, as are other

Norwegian coastguard vessels, by a combined military and civilian crew.

A new design from the burgeoning

Rolls-Royce stable, the 272.3 ft. (83 m) long UT512, was developed to meet the challenging requirements. A bollard pull of about 110 tons is combined with a speed of about 18.5 knots to enable the vessel to reach the scene of an incident quickly and then tow a stricken vessel to safety. Operation along the full length of Norway's coastline and throughout the country's exclusive economic zone will involve much time spent in the

Barent's Sea, so ICE 1B class has been specified, along with anti-icing meas- ures such as heated shelters for the two

MOB/boarding boats.

For towing and emergency work, this

UT 512 design has TUG notation and includes an optimally located towing winch, a reinforced pushbow, FiFi 1 firefighting capability, a hospital, and extensive equipment including line throwing gear, a harpoon system for attaching the tow wire to stricken ves- sels, oil spill booms and skimmers and 1,000 cu. m. of tankage for recovered oil. For its patrol boat role it has a fore- deck mounted gun and it is equipped with fast rescue/boarding boats and a full military and civilian communica- tions system.

The main propulsion engines will be two 8-cylinder Bergen B32:40L diesels, each developing 4,000kW, turning

Kamewa Ulstein CP propellers in noz- zles. Independent Tenfjord steering gears operate the high lift rudders, and there are two electrically driven thrusters at the bow. One is a 736kW

Kamewa Ulstein tunnel thruster and the other is an Ulstein Aquamaster swing-up azimuth thruster rated at 883kW. Fire pumps are driven from the main engines through power take-offs. A Rauma

Brattvaag deck machinery package has been specified, comprising a main low pressure hydraulic towing winch with a 50 tonne pull and 250 tonne brake hold- ing load, anchor windlass, capstan and tugger winch. Towing pins and a hydraulic deck crane are also provided.

This coastguard vessel is the first to be fitted with the new Rolls-Royce

Poscon2 DP system (AUTS notation), and it has a full UMAS automation sys- tem.

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