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The U.K shipyard Swan Hunter recently launched one of the world's most sophisticated cableships, the 377-foot Sir Eric Sharp. Sophisticated Cableship Launched At Swan Hunter's Wallsend Yard One of the world's most modern and sophisticated cableships, the $49-million Sir Eric Sharp, was re- cently launched at Swan Hunter's Wallsend Yard, only 14 months af- ter the order was placed by Cable and Wireless (Marine) Ltd. (CWM). Designed on computer, with the construction aligned by laser, the 377-foot-long Sir Eric Sharp is one of the most technologically ad- vanced cableships afloat. When commissioned in spring 1989, the new vessel will take up station in Bermuda to provide CWM's new Atlantic Cable Maintenance Service in conjunction with the Mercury, another of CWM's cableships. The two vessels will share mainte- nance responsibility for the PTAT system, which will be the first pri- vately funded trans-Atlantic fiber optic telecommunications cable, the PTAT-1 will be jointly owned by SIR ERIC SHARP Equipment List Main engine Ruston Generator engine GEC Machines Auxiliary engine NEI Allen Auxiliary generator .... GEC Machines Propulsion motors .... GEC Machines Propulsion motor converters . . . . Hill Graham Controls Bow & stern thrusters White Gill Thruster motors GEC Machines Thruster motor converters . . . . Hill Graham Controls Main & auxiliary diesel generator controls . Regulator Europa Propulsion motor controls GEC Electrical Machinery alarm & monitoring . . . . CSI Navigation system Racal Marine Radar Kelvin Hughes Autopilot Racal Marine SatNav SG Brown Gyrocompass SG Brown Shallow water echo sounder . . Marconi Watchkeeper receiver Marcon Direction finder Marconi Deep water general purpose echo sounder Honeywell Deep water survey echo sounder Ferranti ORE ROV tracking Simrad Albatross Auto exchange phone system . . . Grundy PA/intercom Marconi Radio/TV aerial Marcon Radio system Marconi VHF telephone Marcon SatCom system . . . EB Communications Cable handling system Dowty Bolton Paul ROV Slingsby Engineering Cable and Wireless and its Ameri- can partner and is scheduled to enter service in mid-1989. The 6,133-grt Sir Eric Sharp is the first cableship ever designed with a permanent integral remotely operated vehicle (ROV) for buried cable maintenance and repair du- ties. The ROV Cirrus will be able to perform a variety of complex cable repair and maintenance tasks. Aside from the hydraulic thrusters which propel the craft, it can also be fitted with tracks enabling it to crawl along the ocean floor. The Sir Eric Sharp has a breadth of 59 feet, depth of 33 feet and full load draft of 20.6 feet. Her propul- sion equipment was provided by GEC Electrical Projects Ltd. The propulsion package consists of a Ruston main diesel engine fitted to a GEC Machines Ltd. generator with GEC Machines Ltd. propulsion motors. Auxiliary power is supplied by an NEI Allen auxiliary engine driving a GEC Machines generator. Hill Graham Controls Ltd. supplied propulsion motor converters. For maneuverability, the Sir Eric Sharp is fitted with bow and stern thrusters supplied by White Gill- United Technologies Elliott, Ltd., driven by GEC Machines thruster motors. The vessel has full satellite com- munications and navigation facili- ties and is equipped with an ad- vanced dynamic positioning system which enables it to automatically maintain a fixed position relative to its remotely controlled submersible on the seabed. 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