Owner/operator: Weeks Marine Inc., Cranford, N.J.
Designer/builder: Royal IHC, Kinderdijk, Netherlands/Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Panama City, Fla.
Dimensions: L: 356’ B: 79’ D: 25.3’
Mission: Trailing suction hopper dredger
Crew size: 21
Hull:
- Steel monohull
Propulsion:
- (2) GE 16V250 diesel engines, 5,682 hp each
- (2) Siemens Flender gearboxes
- (2) Hyundai 3,400-kW shaft generators
- Wartsila 979-hp bow thruster
- GE 6L250 auxiliary generator, 1,423 kW
- Caterpillar C18 emergency generator, 425 kW
Capacities:
- Fuel: 286,441 gallons
- Potable water: 36,034 gallons
- Hopper: 8,550 cubic yards
Deck equipment:
- (2) Ridderinkhof anchor windlasses
- Ridderinkhof mooring capstan
- Techcrane F120-52 crane
Navigation/communications:
- Furuno FAR-2107 radar
- Transas Navi-Sailor ECDIS
- Simrad GC80 gyrocompass
- Sperry Marine Jupiter magnetic compass
- Furuno FA150 AIS
- Simrad AP80 autopilot
- Furuno GMDSS radio suite
- VSAT connection
Additional equipment:
- IHC single-wall dredge pump
- IHC double-wall dredge pump (booster)
- (3) Hyundai 1,600-kW AC pump motors
- IHC jet pumps
- IHC bow coupling
- Fassmer freefall lifeboat
- Fassmer rescue boat
- Fixed CO2 fire suppression
- Conical bottom valves for dumping material
- Self-emptying doors and self-emptying channel
Classifications:
- Lloyd’s Register, 100A1 Hopper Dredger, LMC, UMS; USCG
