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
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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.
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