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10 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News rate per day increases by approximately $8,250 per day to approximately $20,750 per day. The Oceanis is a

Panamax dry bulk carrier of 75,211 dwt built in Korea in 2001.

Crew Boats Building in Dubai

Following the success of the Friah 1 and Friah 2, delivered in 2004, Arabian

Gulf Mechanical & Contracting Ltd. placed an order for three sisterships. The builder, Grandweld of Dubai, has deliv- ered Friah 3 and is currently building

Friah 4 and Friah 5. The boats will be 100 ft. (30.5 m) overall with a waterline length of 88.9 ft. (27.12 m) and a 21 ft. (6.4-m) beam. Each vessel will have a net weight of 107 tons and have 25 ton cargo capacity. Open cargo deck area is 65 sq. m. Tankage includes 31,700 liters of fuel, 7,560 liters of water and 1,450 liters of sewage. Like the first two crew boats, propulsion for the vessels will be provided by a pair of Cummins KTA38

M2 rated for 1,400 hp each at 1,950 rpm. The engines will turn five-blade propellers through ZF-3055 marine gears with 2.5:1 reduction. Design speed is 21 knots. Seating will be provided for 24 passengers.

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World's Largest Cruise

Ship Launched

The first of three ultra-sized cruise vessels for Royal Caribbean Cruises

Ltd., Freedom of the Seas, was floated out recently at Aker Yards in Finland.

Freedom of the Seas is a floating urban community with its own energy and drinking water production as well as waste management. There is 16.5 hectares of deck space for 5,740 passen- gers and members of the crew. The 158,000 grt ship is 1,112.2 ft. (339 m) long and 126.6 ft. (38.6 m) wide.

The newbuilding will be delivered to

Royal Caribbean in April 2006. The sec- ond and third vessel in the series will be ready for delivery in spring 2007 and 2008 respectively. The ships in the

Freedom class build on the Voyager- class ships, but are 15 percent larger than those, and have new features, all not yet revealed. The Freedom of the

Seas takes ship design to the edge and beyond, e.g. with a top-deck aqua envi- ronment, featuring three massive pool areas.

In all, 340,000 sq. m. of steel plate was used for the hull, as well as 520 km steel profiles, 1,630 km of weld seams and 420,000 liters of paint. There is 3,500 km of electric cable, 160 km of pipes and 5,800 sq. m. of windows.

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News

Uncompromised Control

WaterJet Bow/Stern

Thrusters 75-2200 HP

JT575AM

HT600

Low Submergence

Requirement

Small Hull Penetrations

Auxiliary Propulsion/ “Take Home” Capability

Effective Thrust In Currents

Proudly Made

In The USA!

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Mongoose Prototype Put to the Test

Canada's A.F. Theriault and Son Ltd. launched the Mongoose, a prototype fast patrol boat, after five years of research and development. The company touts the vessel as a viable, cost-effective, high-tech solution for coastal and inland water- way security. The Mongoose series of FPB vessels, ranging from 25-120 ft. (7.6 to 36.5 m), have a new element added to the formula: Ceramic Reinforced

Plastics (CRP). The process and development protocol remains classified.

Mongoose MK-1 is a 27-ft. (8.2 m) high-speed mono-hull vessel with a special- ly designed hull, designed to provide maximum control at both high and low speeds. Initial trials recorded a maximum speed in excess of 60 mph on two-ft. choppy seas. According to the trial, sharp turns at 45 mph were uncompro- mising and under full control.

Other features of the

Mongoose series of FPB's include: • Stealth: low to no radar signature with a low heat signature; High level of ballistics protection; Light weight (3200 lbs. dry weight); Efficient: a single 275 Mercury Verado from dead stop to plane in 40 ft. Range: Can operated at full speed three hours, at half speed nine hours.

The MK-1 proto-type is loaded with electronic navigation equipment supplied by CMC Electronics Inc. Research director, Dr. Russell Saunders, said that the hull composite structure includes divinycell core foams by DIAB Group Inc. and reinforcements by companies such as Johnson Industries, 3-M and Interplastic

Corp. "The hull is over 20 times the flexural strength of steel, aluminum, or fibreglass solutions," said Saunders. Other advancements include optic stealth: a digitized camouflage that at high speeds virtually eliminates the vessel profile.

Digital camouflage ranges in color depending upon the zone of operations, and is designed by the AFT resident design team.

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Main particulars

GRT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .158,000

Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,112.2 ft. (339 m)

Breadth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126.6 ft. (38.6 m)

Draft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27.8 ft. (8.5 m)

DWT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10,600

Passengers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4,375

Crew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1,365

Classification . . . . . .+1A1, EO, RP, Passenger Ship,

Unrestricted Service, Underwater Survey, TMON, W1

Type of propulsion . . . .Diesel-electric Azipod drive

Main engines . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 x Wärtsilä 12V46C

Total output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75,600 kW

Propulsion . . . . .3 x Azipod, total output 42,000 kW

Bow thrusters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 x 3,300 kW

Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21.6 knots

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