Maritime Reporter, December 1990

<BODY> <div> The bulker Northern Venture, built by NKK, has an ice reinforced hull. chronous-type propulsion motors, each directly driving a fixed-pitch propeller via shafting. CRYSTAL HARMONY Cruise Ship MHI Built at a cost of $200 million, the 48,621-ton luxury cruise liner Crys- tal Harmony, constructed by the Nagasaki shipyard of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), is the first luxury ship for Los Angeles-based Crystal Cruises, a subsidiary of Ja- pan's NYK Line. Reportedly one of the most spa- cious ships in her class, the Baha- mas-registered Crystal Harmony carries 960 passengers in first class luxury. Almost all of of her passen- ger cabins are situated on the out- side, more than half of which have a private veranda. She also features one of the largest penthouses afloat and the first floating casino to be operated by Caesars Palace of Las Vegas. The Crystal Harmony's propul- sion power is generated by four Mit- subishi-MAN B&W 8L58/64 large bore medium-speed diesel alterna- tor sets. The output is fed via a 6.6 kv main switchboard to two 12 MW Cycloconverter drives, each serving its own 11.5 MW synchronous pro- pulsion motors. ABB Marine sup- plied and engineered the Cyclo pro- pulsion drives, generators, switch- board, bowthruster motors, inte- grated machinery and auxiliary automation system. Plate coolers were installed on the vessel by Kyoto Machinery Co., Ltd., the Japanese division of Alfa- Laval. Passenger amenities aboard the liner include two heated freshwater pools fitted with movable roofs called Magrodomes, a special piano lounge area with foiliage on the Lido Deck, an Italian restaurant and Jap- anese restaurant. DELFIN CARAVELLE Cruise Ship Rauma Yards This past year Finnish shipbuild- er Rauma Yards Oy delivered the December, 1990 23 second of two smaller luxury cruise liners to Delfin Cruise Ltd., a ship- ping company based in Nauvo, Fin- land. Christened the Delfin Caravelle by Mrs. Leena Matomaki, wife of the president of the Rauma-Repola Group, Tauno Matomaki, the lin- er has an overall length of 382 feet, breadth of 56 feet and draft of 14 feet. Her pair of Wartsila Vasa 6R32Ds produce a total of 3,017 hp at 750 rpm. She can accommodate up to 330 passengers in her 178 cabi- ns, including her eight luxury suites fitted with Jacuzzis and balconies. Delivered by the yard in about one year, the Delfin Caravelle has conference facilities for 200 partici- pants, saunas with a swimming pool and Jacuzzi, duty-free shop, saloon, casino, club/restaurant with danc- ing, nightclub/disco, beauty salon, and hospital quarters. The ship's main restaurant can accommodate all 330 passengers at a single seat- ing. The Delfin Caravelle will cruise during the summer and autumn from Turku to Visby three times per week, Gotland-Borgholm cruises and trips to Tallinn and the isle of Saaremaa in Estonia. The line will also arrange 24-hour cruises as well as conference and charter cruises. Equipment List Main engines(2) Wartsila Vasa Auxiliary engines Wartsila Vasa Alternators Leroy Somer Propellers & shafts JW Berg Reduction gears Renk-Tacke Shaft bearings & seals . Waukesha-Lips Steering equipment . . . . Wartsila-EES Bowthruster Ulstein-Liaaen Fin stabilizers Blohm & Voss Diesel generators Leroy Somer Shaft generators Leroy Somer Heat exchangers GEA Ahlborn/Alfa-Laval Emer. generator Stamford Emer. generator engine . . . Cummins Vacuum toilet Evac Air cooling compressors .... Sabroe Davits Schat-Davit Evaporators Alfa-Laval Nirex Oil purifiers Alfa-Laval Radars, log & echo sounder . . . . Krupp Atlas Elektronik DICTO KNUTSEN Crude Oil Tanker Astilleros Espanoles This year the 797-foot crude oil tanker Dicto Knutsen joined the Knutsen O.A.S. Shipping A/S fleet, following her delivery by the Bilbao yard of Spanish shipbuilder Astille- ros Espanoles S.A. (AESA). Owned by K/S Knutsen AABY Tank, the Norwegian-flag single- screw tanker is fitted with 11 cargo tanks, eight segregated ballast tanks and two slop tanks. She has a dead- weight of 113,131 metric tons at a summer freeboard draft of about 20 feet and 110,135 dwt at a winter freeboard draft of about 21 feet. Designed with a bulbous bow with transom stern and two-part, fully balanced Willi Becker spade rudder, the Dicto Knutsen is propelled by a single AESA-MAN B&W model 5S70MC diesel engine. The two- stroke, slow-speed directly reversi- ble main engine has a nominal out- put rating of 14,630 bhp at 78 rpm. Maneuverability is enhanced by a single 2,400-hp Lips controllable- pitch electric bowthruster. Electrical power generation equipment includes two generating sets, each set consisting of a Bergen Diesel model KRG-8 engine rated at 1,800 bhp at 720 rpm and an Alcon- za NIR-6.350A-10 type generator of 1,200 kw, 450 V, 60 Hz. Freshwater generation is supplied by an Alfa-Laval freshwater genera- tor, producing about 30 metric tons per day. Equipment List Main engine AESA-MAN B&W Generators .... Alconza Generator engines . . . . Bergen Diesel Emer. generator . . . . .... Alconza Emer. generator engine Pegaso-Guascor Oil-fired vertical boilers . . . . . . .San Carlos Exhaust gas boiler . . . . .San Carlos Freshwater equipment . . . Alfa-Laval Spade rudder . . Willi Becker Bowthruster Lips Tank cleaning equipment . . . Gunclean Fire extinguishing equipment . Walter Kidde Gyrocompass & autopilot . Sperry Marine Loran C .... Furuno Echo sounder .... Simrad Speedlog Atlas Radar . Kelvin Hughes ARPA . Kelvin Hughes .... Furuno Decca Robertson Shipmate VHF radio telephone Sailor Mobile telephone . . . .... Siemens Main receiver & emer. receiver . . . . . . ITT Marine HORIZON Cruise Ship Meyer Werft This year Chandris Celebrity Cruises added the 46,811-grt luxury liner Horizon to its fleet following her delivery by Meyer Werft's ship- yard in Papenburg, Germany. The $185-million Horizon along with her sister ship, the Zenith, cur- rently under construction at Meyer Werft, are the largest passenger ships ever built in Germany. The 47,000-grt Horizon has an overall length of about 681 feet, molded breadth of 95 feet and draft of about 24 feet. The 12-deck ship is propelled by a father-and-son four-engine plant consisting of two MAN B&W 9 L 40/54 "father" engines with an out- put of 8,152 hp at 514 rpm each and two MAN B&W 6 L 40/54 "son" engines, each developing 5,435 hp at 514 rpm. ABB supplied the complete mod- ular low-voltage switchgear system type MNS for an installed capacity totalling 20,625 kva and a short-cir- cuit current of 160 ka, and the three-phase AC motors for the aux- iliary systems. Alfa-Laval Industrie of Hamburg, Germany, supplied three separators for HFO with a three-phase motor and electric switching cabinet and a total of seven lube oil separators, two type WHPX 410 and five type WHPX 407, with three-phase mo- tors and electric switching cabinets. The Liberian-flagged, 1,354-pas- (continued) Equipment List Main generator engines MHI-MAN B&W Main generator engine turbochargers MHI Auxiliary generator engine . . . .Wartsila Diesel Auxiliary boiler MHI CP propeller MHI-KaMeWa Emergency generator engine GM/Tominaga & Co. Electric propulsion system ABB Main & auxiliary generator ABB High voltage switchboard & motor ABB Power management system .... ABB Radar & ARPA Krupp Atlas Doppler sonar Krupp Atlas Integrated position indicator Racal Decca INMARSAT Magnavox & JRC Garbage plant Norsk Hydro Vacuum toilet system EVAC Fin stabilizer Sperry Marine Potable water sterilizer . . . Serck Como Plate type heat exchanger . . Alfa-Laval </div> <span id="lblContents"></span> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.digitalwavepublishing.com/" title="Digital Magazine">Digital Wave Publishing</a> </BODY>