Marine Log - December 2008 - (Page 21) LARGEST CRUISE SHIP BUILT IN GERMANY THE YEAR’S best DISTINCTIVESHIPS2008 CELEBRITY SOLSTICE DISTINCTIVE SHIPS OF 2008 Aniara World's largest car/ truck carrier p.24 Celebrity Solstice Largest cruise ship yet from Germany p.21 Clipper Mars 60,000 m3 LPG carrier Emirates Star World's first ship designed to CSR Fair Seas 115,000 dwt tanker Hua San First VLCC built to CSR t 122,000-gt and 317.2m length overall, the 2,852 passenger Celeb rity Solstice is the largest cruise ship yet from Germany and the first in a series of five ships ordered from Meyer Weft for Royal Caribbean's Celebrity Cruises brand. Though by no means the world's largest cruise offers croquet on a real lawn. One cruise critic liner, Celebrity Solstice is still a massive ship, was also taken by the fact that there are glass with loads of space for spectacular public spac- blowing demonstrations in one of the on-board es, such as a three-deck high 1,095 seat theater shops. Of the 1,426 passenger cabins and suites, 90 and a 1,429 guest main restaurant spanning two deck levels. Maybe it says something about are outside units, most with their own balconies. Leaving all that to the travel magazines, Celebrity Cruises’ brand image that while some ships offer rock climbing on fake rocks, this one Celebrity Solstice also boasts a number of shipbuilding achievements, not the least being that it is the first ship built to new damage stability CELEBRITY SOLSTICE requirements that come into force in 2009. at-a-glance It is also an extremely eco-friendly ship. An impressive total energy savings of 30% Length, OA 317.2 m compared to previous ships is achieved by Breadth, molded 36.8 m highly energy-efficient components such as a No. of decks 17 8.30 m photovoltaic system, optimized hydrodynamDraft, fully loaded ics, an extremely efficient underwater coating Gross tonnage 122,000 t an energy-saving lighting system using LEDs. Passengers 2,852 To put the ship’s size perspective, the total Prime movers 4 x 16 cyl Wartsila 46 weight of applied paint is 320 tonnes, the total Output, total 67, 2000 kW length of cabin in the ship is 2,685 km and the Propulsion power 41,000 kW total length of pipes laid is 212 km. Speed 24 knots A p.22 p.25 p.25 p.26 Island Constructor X-bowed construction vessel p.26 K. Jasmine LNG Carrier for Sakhalin service Marbat Compact VLCC Mozah World's largest LNG carrier p.22 p.25 p.26 MSC Ivana HHI's largest ship thus far p.24 NYK Theseus Boxship with a wider beam Vega Star 101st VLCC from DSME p.24 p.22 www.marinelog.com DECEMBER 2008 MARINE LOG 21 http://www.marinelog.com
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