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Ship of the Month

The Indonesian navy’s new sail training ship

More than three years after complet- key architectural design for Bima Suci, is named after a mythological Javanese ing the ? rst outline sketches, Spanish which is just a bit smaller than the larg- hero, a symbol of force, bravery and naval design and architecture ? rm Oli- est naval sail training ship currently righteousness, who is depicted on the ver Design has completed out? tting the in service, Peru’s 115-m BAP Unión, ? gurehead.

interiors for the Bima Suci, the Indone- which came into service last year and Oliver Design’s part in the project sian navy’s new sail training ship. also involved design work from Oliver centers on the architectural design of

This spectacular vessels is one of Design. the ship and the interior design – no the largest tall ships in the world and The new barque-rigged training ship easy task given that the Bima Suci has measures 364 x 44 ft. with a 14.8 ft. has replaced the veteran Kri Dewaruci, ? ve decks and will have a crew of up to draft. Built at Freire Shipyards in Vigo, built in Germany in 1953, to become 200. Inside the hull, more than 21,500

Spain, the new training ship sports the new jewel in the crown of the coun- sq. ft. of interiors have been carefully 36,200 sq. ft. of sails, ? ve decks and try’s navy. It will operate as a “? oating distributed, with mess rooms, cabins, capacity for a crew of 200 ambassador”, paying courtesy visits to of? ces, weapons locker, store rooms

Oliver Design also carried out turn- ports around the world. The Bima Suci and all the services a crew of this size 62 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • OCTOBER 2017

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