Owner/operator: North Carolina Department of Transportation Ferry Division, Havelock, N.C.
Designer/builder: Elliott Bay Design Group, Seattle, Wash./Bollinger Shipyards, Amelia, La.
Dimensions: L: 183’ B: 46 D: 4’6”
Mission: Passenger/vehicle ferry
Crew size: Six
Hull:
- Steel monohull
Propulsion:
- (2) Caterpillar C18 600-hp main engines
- (2) Voith Schneider size 16 propellers
- Twin Disc MGX-5202SC gears
- (2) Caterpillar auxiliary gensets (C7.1 and C4.4)
- Vessel speed: 12 knots
Capacities:
- Passengers: 300
- Vehicles: 40
- Fuel: 3,500 gallons
- Potable water: 1,750 gallons
Navigation/communications:
- (2) Furuno DRS25A radar units
- (4) Furuno TZTL15F touch monitors
- (2) Furuno XN12A/4 antennas
- Furuno SC130 satellite compass
- (2) Ritchie YB-600 magnetic compasses
- Furuno FA170 AIS
- Shakespeare 396-1-AIS antenna
- (4) Icom M506-11 VHF radios
- (4) Shakespeare 399-1M VHF antennas
- (8) speaker horns
Additional equipment:
- Hiller Companies onboard fire suppression system
- Goulds fire pumps
- Palfinger RSQ 450 G rescue boat
- Palfinger SCH 12-3.5R hydraulic davit
Classifications:
- U.S. Coast Guard Subchapter H
