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-
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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
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