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OUTSTANDING OCEANGOING SHIPS OF 1989 It was an excellent year for inno- vative design in world shipbuilding, and this is reflected by the ships selected as MARITIME REPORT- ER'S "Outstanding Oceangoing Ships of 1989." Members of this select group feature superior de- signs, sophisticated equipment and unique machinery, while offering noteworthy performances and ver- satile characteristics. ADVENTUROUS Halter Marine Halter Marine Inc., a member yard of the Trinity Marine Group, delivered the USNS Adventurous, the first of six identical T-AGOS ocean surveillance ships being con- structed under a Navy contract with a value of approximately $85 mil- lion. The Adventurous (T-AGOS-13) is the 11th of 18 planned monohull T-AGOS-class ships to join the Navy's ocean surveillance program. Operated by the Military Sealift Command (MSC) and manned by Photos: (Clockwise from top left): The rail ferry Robin Hood (Schichau Seebeckwerft); the tanker Iron Gippsland (IHI); the liner Oceanic Grace (NKK); and the tanker Nep- tune (HHI). 20 civilian technicians, the Adventur- ous monitors the movement of sub- marines by deploying towed linear arrays of hydrophones known as the Surveillance Towed Array Sonar System (SURTASS). The SURTASS system is com- prised of flexible, neutrally buoyant cable containing a large number of passive microphones, each tuned to specific frequencies enabling identi- fication of noises made by subma- rines many miles away. The data is processed and trans- mitted to shore via satellite, where it supplements information from seabed arrays. The all-steel Adventurous is 224 feet long, with a 43-foot beam, and 15-foot 1-inch draft. Main propul- sion and other ship's service are die- sel-electric, provided by four Cater- pillar-Kato 600-kw diesel generators driving two General Electric motors. Power is transmitted through two shafts and full load displacement is approximately 2,300 long tons. Maximum speed is approximately 11 knots and normal operating speed is about three knots. USNS ADVENTUROUS Equipment List Main engines(2) GE Propellers Matsui/Nakashima Thrusters Schottel Thruster Motor GE Generator engines(4) Caterpillar Generators(4) KATO Engine controls GE Steering controls Sperry VHF radios ITT Mackay Radar Raytheon Compass Baker Lyman Loran Micrologic Autopilot Sperry Pumps Aurora/Carver/Delaval Towed array winch Appleton Marine BONN EXPRESS HDW West German shipbuilder Ho- waldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Ak- tiengesellschaft (HDW) delivered the new generation 2,291-TEU con- tainership Bonn Express to ship- owner Hapag-Lloyd. Based on research and experience results from the "Ship of the Fu- ture" program, the Bonn Express along with her sister the Heidelberg Express equipped with some of the most modern ship operation centers in the world. For the first time, a ship opera- tion officer equally trained in nau- tics and technology is on duty, and this allows the owner to make op- timal use of a first rate ship opera- tion technique reducing the number of crew to 14. Direct connection between the ship's and the owner's center in Hamburg is established by world- wide satellite communications. This enables direct transfer of ship data and cargo details. The concept of ship management and ship operation is based on the concentration of all supervising and control functions into only two main working areas: the ship operation center (SOC) and the board man-
