Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Sealink delivers 53-metre tug

A Dutch owner has taken delivery of the ‘Venture G’, the second in a pair of sisterships from the Sealink Shipyard in Miri, Sarawak, East Malaysia.

Like the first vessel, the ‘Mare Verde’, the second vessel, the ‘Venture G’ measures 53.8 metres by 13.8 metres with a moulded depth of 4.5 metres. Designed by Conan Wu and Associates of Singapore, the vessel has an engine room mounted well aft with large tankage capacity forward. The bunker tankage includes 913 cubic metres of IFO 380, 220 cubic metres of MDO and 208 cubic metres of fresh water. The vessel is fitted with a thermal fluid heater and three cargo pumps, two for the IFO 380 and one for MDO. Main engines are a pair of Cummins KTA50-M2 diesels each generating 1,265kW at 1,800rpm and turning four blade 2,000 by 2,080 m/m propellers through Twin Disc MG5506 gears with 6:1 ratios. A five tonne-bow tunnel type bow thruster is also fitted. Auxiliaries are three Caterpillar-powered 245kW 50 hz sets. The emergency gen set is a Cummins powered 30kW set.
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