Outstanding vessels

I propose this new thread where to post and comment about outstanding vessels af all types (more powerful, big, luxurious, etc), like this "leviathan":

The EMMA MAERSK:
Owner: A. P. Moller-Maersk Group
Builder: Odense Steel Shipyard Ltd, Denmark
Type: Container ship
Tonnage: 170,974 GT, 55,396 NT
Length: 397 metres (1,300 ft) LOA
Beam: 56 metres (180 ft)
Draft: 15.5 metres (51 ft)
Depth: 30 metres (98 ft) (deck edge to keel)
Propulsion: 80 MW (109,000 hp) Wärtsilä 14RT-Flex96c plus 30 MW (40,000 hp) from five Caterpillar 8M32
Weight of engine: 2,300 tons
Speed: over 25.5 knots (47.2 km/h/29.3 mph)
Capacity: 156,907 metric tons of deadweight (DWT)
11,000 TEU (14 ton) or 15,200 TEU (volume)
1000 TEU (Reefers)
Crew: 13, with room for 30

Some more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Mærsk

http://www.emma-maersk.info/

A very nice set of photos:
http://www.jtashipphoto.dk/jtashipphoto.dk 1/Emma Maersk/emma_maersk_3.htm

Cheers.

 

hello Guillermo
I have seen her before, truly stunning
the woman who bought Nimbus is a partner somehow with Maersk, when i see her next I will ask her about the ship
i sent you a powerpoint slide show of her, building etc, but dunno how to post it here

 

this is the fate of ships, esp steam turbines, it actaully breaks ones heart
i used admire the ACT ships when i lived on Ak harbour, I loved the flare in the bows

ACT 5

Length 712Ft 9ins Beam 95Ft 3ins Draft 34Ft 6ins Grt 24,212 Net 14,234 Powered by By 2 Laval Steam Turbines by Bremer Vulcan Schiffbaum & Machinenfabrik, of Vegesack. Germany.
Reduction geared to a single shaft. 3 x Brotherhood Turbo Altrnators of 1360Kw @ 12000 rpm and 2 x Paxman Diesel Generators 2 x Dujardin 8 Cylinder Allans of 850kw.

1971 Launched from the yard of Bremer Vulcan Schiffbaum & Machinenfabrik, of Vegesack. Germany on the 3rd November as a Refrigerated Modular Containership for Blue Star Line Ltd and named ACT 5. She was completed in February 1972.

1987 In March she was re engined as a motor ship at I.H.I Yokohama Japan.

1991 Transferred to Blue Star Line and renamed Sydney Star.

1998 Sold to P & O Nedlloyd Line but was operated under Blue Star Line's colours.

2003 She arrived on the 24th January at Jiangyin for demolition.

 

maybe the last of the graceful liners? Canberra

 

Maybe. A concept away from this not yet launched "Oasis of the Seas"

Data:
Shipyard: Aker Yards, Finland.
Owner: Royal Caribbean International
Launching late 2009
Tonnage: 220,000 GRT
Displacement: app. 100,000 tons
Length: 1,181 ft (360 m)
Beam: 154 ft (47 m)
Height: 213 ft (65 m) above water line
Draft: 30 ft (9 m)
Decks: 16 Passenger Decks
Installed power: 8 Wärtsilä V12 Engine @ 17,500 hp each
Propulsion: 3 × 20 MW Asea Brown Boveri Azipod, all azimuthing
Speed: 20.2 kn (37.4 km/h/23.2 mph)
Capacity: 5,400 passengers double occupancy (about 7,300 including third and fourth passengers)
Crew: TBD

Will be the world's largest passenger vessel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Oasis_of_the_Seas

Cheers.

 

Guillermo, I struggle to accept the concept of function over style. I´m not sure I could stand to be in such close confines with so many other people.

My ideal cruise would be to walk around the decks feeling at one with nature and the sea, not sharing a confined space with thousands of other passengers. I would prefer to cross an ocean on the Maersk Emma than your cruise liner eving though teh food would be somewhat dodgey in comparison!

 

Yes it would be like being in a shopping mall .You may catch a glimpse of the sea now and then

 

I dislike that superliner G, very much, its lines do not please the eye at all, but then hey its only my eye)cut off the sharp end and you have, a nice moderrn ugly block of flats

 

compare the last of the great translantic builds
* Built at Penhoet, St. Nazaire as FRANCE Yard #G19
* 66,348 GRT
* 1,035 x 110.5 feet
* Quadruple Screw, geared CEM-Parsons geared turbines from builders
* Service speed 30 knots, max 35.21 knots
* 160,000 shaft horsepower
* 407 First Class, 1,637 Tourist Class passengers

 

Yeap! I also like more the old liners lines and also agree on not liking crowded places either; neither do I have the need to feel myself like being in a town's street, mall or whatever when aboard.
But no doubt 'Oasis of the Seas' will be an outstanding vessel.
Cheers.

 

the continuing developent of the modern crosshead, has made it less costly(comparitively) to build these liners again, and the fuel rate shp/gramme keeps dropping
there is no doubt that the modern 2 cycle, is a wondrous thing,
awesome,
The Russians and Norwegians work together to convert from weapons grade fuel in the fleet to safer less desirable (for theft) fuel I am a quilified diesel fitter, but I prefer Nuclear I just dont have the grey matter to completley understand the design of reactor, but It is a facinating thing to study

 

Look who came to visit Cape Town

 

I wouldnt want to have to park that.

 

I remember seeing the older ones in Mombassa during the Vietnam war. Thats where I learnd to smoke Cammel

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I worked as a cook for Norwegian Cruise Lines just last year. Trust me, the food on the Emma Maersk is probably just as good if not better.