What's the Powerplant on THE CAT Ferry ??
SLAPPS
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Pat H.
http://www.catferry.com/onboard/catfacts.html
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> On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 00:34:22 GMT, "SLAPPS" <spud...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
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> >Anyone know the make of the engines on THE CAT ferry?
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> >Thanks
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> 4 Ruston 20RK270 engines.
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> http://www.enginemuseum.org/intoman.html
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> On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 00:34:22 GMT, "SLAPPS" <spud...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> >Anyone know the make of the engines on THE CAT ferry?
>
> 4 Ruston 20RK270 engines.
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> http://www.enginemuseum.org/intoman.html
Earlier models have these engines. The newer catamarans have engines
from various manufacturers, such as "Caterpillar 3618" or Cummins - Gas
turbine or diesel engine options.
It seems that the Aussie has the best military power in Iraq with the
catamarans...
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World Maritime News - 29 May, 1998
Devil Cat evaluated in Washington
En route from Australia to Canada, the 91-meter/300-foot catamaran ferry
Devil Cat spent two days at Fort Eustace in Washington so that U.S.
military personnel could evaluate it. The 350-dwt ferry operates between
Bar Harbor, Maine, and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, with its first voyage on 28
May. The U.S.$44 million vessel sails the route in 2.5 hours with 240
cars, four buses and 900 passengers. It is operated by Bay Ferries Ltd.
from May to October.
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http://www.barnstablepatriot.com/04-04-03-news/greylady.html
The ferry is a 143.3-foot Australian-design catamaran with four 1,875
horsepower Cummins engines, Hamilton water-jets, and an active ride
control system by Maritime Dynamics. The passenger capacity is 300, and
her speed, fully loaded, is about 37 knots.
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http://www.dialinfolink.com.au/articles/cf/0c0159cf.asp
Aussie built catamaran a big hit in Iraq
An Australian catamaran that used to be a ferry in New Zealand is
delighting the American navy with its versatility in the treacherous
waterways around the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr.
The 96m Joint Venture, built by Hobart company Incat, has been operating
as a mother ship to a fleet of US Navy gunboats, landing craft and
helicopters.
"We've never had 14 small boats operating independently of the big navy
for seven days, un-resupplied," Lieutenant Commander Tom Rancich, who
heads future operations for the Naval Special Warfare Task Group, told
the New York Times.
Joint Venture, which used to do the Cook Strait crossing as Top Cat but
has had some of its passenger accommodation removed to make way for a
helicopter pad, is one of two Incat catamarans chartered to the US
military for about $US 5m ($A 8.33m) a year.
The other, the 98m Spearhead which only left Incat's Hobart shipyard in
January, is also in the Gulf, Incat said on Friday.
But little is known about the role the bigger boat, which is configured
more as a troop and equipment carrier, is playing.
The US became interested in the high-speed and highly manoeuvrable boats
after seeing an earlier model, HMAS Jervis Bay, operating between Darwin
and Dili during the East Timor crisis.
Joint Venture had already been thoroughly tested by the Americans when
the war came and the two were put straight into service.
New York Times reporter James Dao, who went aboard Joint Venture near Umm
Qasr about a week ago, said it got into position by weaving through
narrow waters, creeping over a sand bar at high tide and slipping under a
bridge at low tide.
"Normally, you wouldn't take a sail boat up that channel," a commander
said.
Joint Venture acted as a floating truck stop to the little boats that
darted in and out of the waterways linking Umm Qasr to the Tigris River
to the north and the Persian Gulf to the south.
Without it, the boats would have had to travel scores of kilometres each
day to bases in Kuwait for food, rest and fuel.
The Joint Venture isn't perfect. It cannot purify enough sea water to
meet demand, forcing showers to be curtailed. The car deck can't handle
tanks and the helicopter pad can't be used at night.
But a new catamaran under construction in Hobart and due to be delivered
to the Pentagon in July, shouldn't have these shortcomings.
7 April 2003
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http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/article.cfm?Id=767
April 2002
U.S. Services Test Aussie-Built Catamaran
high-speed vessel could operate both in deep seas and coastal waters,
officials say
by Harold Kennedy
With her twin aluminum hulls and needle nose, the Joint Venture
high-speed vessel (HSV-X1) cast a strange silhouette, as she shoved off
from the wharf at North Carolina’s Morehead City one early morning this
winter and sped out to participate in exercises in the Atlantic Ocean.
The Joint Venture is an Australian-built and owned, 313-foot catamaran,
which the Pentagon is considering as a prototype for a new family of
ships to perform a wide variety of functions for the U.S. Navy, Marines
and Army in heavy seas and relatively shallow water.
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/hsv.htm
IX 532 / HSV 4676 Joint Venture HSV-X1
HSV Austal Westpac Express
The Joint Venture HSV-X1 is a high-speed, wave piercing catamaran that is
undergoing a joint-service experiment. Capabilities to be tested include
speed, high payload fraction, longer and more useful ranges and the
ability to tailor the payload for optimum mission success. The
joint-service experiment is being coordinated by the Navy Warfare
Development Command in close partnership with elements of the Army, Navy,
Marine Corps and Coast Guard.
:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/hsv-specs.htm
Engines 4 x Caterpillar 3618 (each rated at 7200kW) Gas turbine or diesel
engine options
Gearboxes 4 x Reintjes VLJ6831
Waterjets 4 x Kamewa 125 SII
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G. Wayne Hines
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 23:32:09 GMT, axemen <axem...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> >Punk wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 00:34:22 GMT, "SLAPPS" <spud...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> >> >Anyone know the make of the engines on THE CAT ferry?
> >>
> >> 4 Ruston 20RK270 engines.
> >>
> >> http://www.enginemuseum.org/intoman.html
> >
> >Earlier models have these engines. The newer catamarans have engines
> >from various manufacturers, such as "Caterpillar 3618" or Cummins - Gas
> >turbine or diesel engine options.
>
>
> The Bay Ferries Cat is hull no 59.
>
> http://www.incat.com.au/news/delivery_archive.cgi
For anyone interested, but too lazy to check the webpage, here's
the info on the two boats.
Vessel Name: The Cat - Hull Number 059
Date Completed: 14th April, 2002
Vessel Type: 98 metre Evolution 10B Wave Piercing
Catamaran
Operator: Bay Ferries
Route Location: Yarmouth, Nova Scotia to Bar Harbor,
Maine
Vessel Name: The Cat - Hull Number 046
Date Completed: 15th December, 1997
Vessel Type: 91 metre wave piercing catamaran
Operator: HSV 046 Pty Ltd
Route Location: Hobart
The new Cat is significantly larger than the older vessel. Bay
Ferries says it will carry 900 passengers. I believe the old Cat
carried only 700 or 750. Supposedly the newer vessel is more
stable in rough weather. It's quite a site to see that thing
"flying" across the water.
By the way, the first Cat was the "stealth boat" in a James Bond
movie that was filmed before the vessel headed for Nova Scotia.
gwh
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