Maritime Reporter, January 1991

<BODY> <div> EDELWEISS II Equipment List Main engines (2) . . . Cummins Propellers . Michigan Wheel Thruster engine . . . . Onan Generator engine . . . Cummins Generator Newage Reduction gears . . . . ZF Engine controls . . . . MMC Steering controls . . . Hynautic VHF radio Uniden Compass Suunto Depth sounder . . . . Furuno Fire pump . Peabody Barnes Bilge pump . Peabody Barnes Engine synchronizers . . . Glendenning Air horn . . . .Kahlenberg Heat pump system Crusair EDELWEISS II Excursion Boat Skipperliner Shipyards Skipperliner Shipyards, Inc., La Crosse, Wis., delivered last year the 150-passenger excursion boat Edel- weiss II to Edelweiss, Inc., Milwau- kee, Wis. Operating out of Milwaukee, the 82-foot European Canal boat Edel- weiss II has a beam of 20 feet, draft of 3 feet and a water height of 8 feet 6 inches. She is powered by twin Cummins 6BT5.9M diesel engines, which drive four-bladed Michigan Wheel propellers via ZF model IRM220 reduction gears with a re- duction ratio of 2.45:1. The Milwaukee River cruise boat has seating for 101 passengers. Her air-conditioned deckhouse is fitted with a bar, two heads and a galley, which is used for food preparation for meals cooked ashore. Edelweiss, Inc., also operates the excursion boat Edelweiss I on the Milwaukee River in downtown Mil- waukee, Wis. The river has several bridges with a 9-foot 6-inch clear- ance. The vessels are finished in a traditional European fashion with mahogany and brass. Skipperliner Shipyards is one of the leading U.S. builders of excur- sion boats, sternwheelers and side- wheelers in the 49- to 300-passenger range. 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- HORIZON Equipment List Main & auxiliary engines . . . MAN B&W Diesel Gearbox Lohmann & Stolterfoht Bow & stern thruster . . Lips Emer. generator .... Janssen Electric motors & starters ABB Flap rudder . . .Willi Becker Stabilizers . Sperry Marine Magnetcompass .... Anschutz Echo sounder . . . Krupp Atlas Elektronik Radar JRC Boilers . Aalborg Marine Lighting fixtures . . Aqua Signal Anchor . Blohm & Voss Liferafts Viking Evaporators . . Serck Como Davits . . .Schat Davit Ceilings Dampa 36 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- senger vessel has 533 outside and 144 inside cabins. / </div> <span id="lblContents"></span> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.digitalwavepublishing.com/" title="Digital Magazine">Digital Wave Publishing</a> </BODY>