Maritime Reporter, December 1991

<BODY> <div> Driver, was delivered to Swedish owner Frontline AB in early April of this year by South Korean builder Hyundai Heavy Industries Ltd. (HHI). The 934-foot Front Driver has a breadth of 148 feet, depth of 98 feet and scantling draft of 61 feet. The FRONT DRIVER Equipment List Main engine . Hyundai-MAN B&W Hose handling & provision cranes . Hyundai-Normarine Cargo hatch covers Hyundai-Kayaba Monitoring system .... Hyundai-Terasaki Fire detection Salwico Auxiliary engine Ssangyong-Wartsila Emergency generator.. ... MAN B&W-Demp Echo sounder Furuno Magnetic compass Plath Log JRC Satnav/weather fax Furuno Radio direction finder.. JRC Radar Krupp Atlas Gyrocompass/autopilot Plath vessel has nine cargo holds and five pairs of side water ballast tanks. The ballast tanks are common with the double bottom spaces in way of the cargo holds. There are also three slop tanks. The Front Driver is able to load or discharge three different kinds of cargo oil simultaneously. The cargo pumping system is designed to achieve a maximum discharge rate of 12,000 cubic meters per hour with all three Shinko vertical centrifugal main cargo pumps and the maxi- mum loading rate is about 14,800 cubic meters per hour. There is also a steam-driven cargo stripping pump of 200 cubic meters capacity and a cargo oil stripping eductor rated at 450 cubic meters per hour. Propulsion is provided by a Hyundai-built MAN B&W low speed 6S70MC diesel, with an MCR of 15,400 kw (20,940 bhp) at 88 rpms. The main engine burns 600 est heavy fuel oil at 50 degrees C and drives an 8-meter-diameter NiAl propeller of a right-hand rotating type. The electrohydraulic, two-ram four-cylinder steering gear is rated at 300 tm. Electric power is supplied by three Ssangyong-Wartsila auxiliary die- sel generating sets. Two of these are 6R22/26 with an output of720 kw at 720 rpm, while the third is 6R32D rated at 1,100 kw. The ship is also fitted with an emergency generat- ing set with an output of 150 kw. HANNOVER EXPRESS Samsung Shipbuilding Circle 75 on Reader Service Card The largest Panamax class containership built to date, the 4,422-TEU Hannover Express, was delivered by Samsung Shipbuilding in the first quarter of 1991. She is capable of loading up to 11 rows of boxes below deck, and up to 13 rows above hatches. The first of a series of five ships contracted with Samsung by Ger- December, 1991 man shipping line Hapag Lloyd, the 965-foot boxship has a 106-foot breadth, design draft of 39 feet and deadweight of 67,686 tons at her scantling draft of 44 feet. The Germanischer Lloyd-classed, German-flagged Hannover Express has a total of seven cellular con- tainer holds, six forward and one aft, arranged with cellguides to ac- commodate mixed stowage in TEUs and FEUs. The forward container holds are designed to carry dangerous goods containers, while the aft hold is de- signed for normal dry container goods. The two lowest tiers of the No. 3 hold can also be used for the transport of normal bulk cargoes. Of particular note on the Hannover Express is a complete navigation package from Anschuetz of Kiel. In accordance with the "Ship of the Future" concept, the compo- nents of the navigation equipment are integrated into a modern opera- HANNOVER EXPRESS Equipment List Main engine Hyundai-MAN B&W Propeller Thyssen (Ostermann) Diesel generator engine Daihatsu Bow thruster Lips Gyro/autopilot Anschuetz Radio/satcom Hagenuk Radar/total navigation system ... Krupp Atlas Switchboard/starters ABB Automation/M/E BMS DMT Paint Hempel/IPK Steering gear Hatlapa Deck machinery Broehl Hatch cover MacGregor Navire-Kayaba Lifeboat E. Hatecke Anti-heeling system Hopp Container fittings MEC Paneling system B + V Refrigeration plant Sabroe Tank level gage CWSS Boiler and economizer Aalborg Centrifugal pump Allweiler FW generator Serck Como Purifier Westfalia Lighting Aqua Signal tions and onboard managing center. The system, therefore, fulfills the requirements for one-man bridge operation. For details, see "Anschutz Supplies Navigation Package For 'Hannover Express'" in this issue. The single-screw boxship is pow- ered by a Hyundai-MAN B&W su- per-long stroke 9K90MC diesel en- gine, rated at 49,640 hp at 93 rpm and incorporating a Turbo Com- pound System of 1,450 kw. Her service speed is 23 knots. The boxship is also equipped with a 2,500-kw Lips bow thruster with an anti-suction tunnel to aid ma- neuverability. HELICE Kvaerner Govan Circle 86 on Reader Service Card The first in a series of four 56,700- cubic-meter-capacity LPG carriers, the Helice, has been delivered to owner Spey Marine by the Glasgow shipyard of Kvaerner Govan. Now operating as part of the Myre Havtor pool in worldwide trading, the 672-foot Helice has a breadth of 105-1/2 feet, hull depth of 66 feet, design draft of 34 feet and dead- weight of 49,513 tons. The Helice incorporates a num- ber of firsts. Besides being the first in a series of four, she also is the first LPG carrier built by Kvaerner Govan. Additionally, the Helice is reportedly the first merchant ship to enter service fully equipped with GMDSS. The system includes JRC Inmarsat standard A and standard C terminals; four fixed Raytheon VHF radiotelephones; three Jotron HELICE Equipment List Main engine Kvaerner Kincaid-Sulzer Propeller Stone Manganese Diesel alternators ... Bergen Diesel Cargo pumps . Kvaerner Eureka Bow thruster Brunvoll Steering gear Frydenbo Engine remote control Sulzer Inmarsat A & C terminals.. JRC VHF radiotelephones Raytheon EPIRBs Jotron GPS satnav Raytheon Back-up radio JRC Radar & ARPA Raytheon Gyrocompass/autopilot.... Yokogawa Echo sounder, doppler log and weatherfax JRC Central alarm monitoring.. Autronica EPIRBS; a Raytheon GPS satnav; and a JRC MF/HF back-up radio station. As for her cargo flexibility, the Helice is able to carry cargoes with a specific gravity of 0.97 at 98 percent capacity in cargo tanks No. 2 and No. 3, as well as 70 percent in her other two tanks. This is unusual, since most LPG carriers can only carry cargoes with high specific gravities in tanks at 70 percent ca- pacity. Propulsion is provided by a Kvaerner Kincaid-Sulzer 6RTA62 slow-speed diesel engine, develop- ing 15,000 bhp at 106 rpm. The main engine drives a four-blade fixed-pitch Stone Manganese pro- peller. Three 1,200-kw Bergen KRG8 diesel alternators supply ship's elec- trical power. JAMES CLARK ROSS Swan Hunter Circle 74 on Reader Service Card A first class research vessel, the 7,400-ton RRS James Clark Ross, emerged from the Wallsend (U.K.) yard of Swan Hunter Shipbuilders and was delivered to the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Designed as a multi-role ship, the JAMES CLARK ROSS Equipment List Propulsion engines (4) Wartsila Vasa Propeller Stone Manganese Thrusters Elliot White Gill Directional sonar Furuno Bow thruster motor GEC-Alsthom Stern thruster motor Hydraulic Power Systems/Rexroth Emergency generator engine . Caterpillar Generators GEC Echo sounders Simrad Integrated bridge system.. Sperry Marine GPS receiver Trimbl Gem-based joystick controls GEC Steering controls Sperry Marine Jib cranes Hagglunds Booms Schat Davit Hold covers MacGregor Navire Coatings International Paint Autopilot Sperry Marine Pumps Hamworthy Freshwater generators Alfa Laval 325-foot-long by 62-foot-beam James Clark Ross replaces the 35-year-old 1,554-grt John Biscoe. The Ross is capable of operating safely in Polar waters for the transportation of cargo and personnel from the U.K. and South Atlantic ports to research sta- tions maintained by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), one of the Council's component institutes, in the Antarctic. Additionally, she is able to discharge cargo without the assistance of normal port facilities such as quays and cranes, and carry out a wide variety of marine science programs in the Southern Ocean and worldwide. 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