Speed 30 knots. Dimensions 400 (overall) x 80 (breadth of hull) x 40 (depth of hull) feet, 25,687 displacement total (T) in long tons of 2,240 pounds, 15,447 leightweight included lead ballast tons, 2,555 lead ballast tons, 4,270 liquid ballast tons, 190 free flooding water tons, 8,335 less liquid ballast deadweight tons, 5,780 less ballast deadweight tons, 5,500 deadweight cargo tons, 11,375 measurement tons of cargo c 40 square feet/ton, 455 bale cubic x 10cubic feet cubic, 7,100 gross tonnage, 3,330 net tonnage. Horsepower 42,000 shp. Crew 56. Deadweight-displacement ratio 02.14.
Voyage costs excluding stevedoring and agency fees
Sea costs -dollars per day x days 315,400
Port costs-dollars per day x days 148,400
Total cost per voyage 463,800
There were two possible routes between the east coast of the USA-Canada and Europe.
Polar route7,425 miles, Los Angeles -San Francisco- Seattle-Vancouver(BC)-Unimak Pass-Bering Straight -North Pole- North Sea-United Kingdom-France-Denmark-Germany and return.
Canal route 8,920 miles, Vancouver (BC)-Seattle-San Francisco-Los Angeles-Panama Canal-Southampton-United Kingdom-France-Denmark-Germany and return.
Details of vessel capital costs in thousands of dollars
Hull 6,330
Hull engineering 2,180
Outfitting 2,600
Machinery (1) 18,960
Inspections&owners outfit 600
Engineering (8%) 2,410
Lead 970
Total 34,050
(1) “Although reactor costs per shaft horsepower declines in the larger size, this is largely offset by rising costs of propulsion machinery, reduction gears, etc”.
Manning requirement
Deck 22
Engineering 21
Stewards 13
Total 56
Source
M. Guralnick a.o. “Potential applications of nuclear energy in unusual ocean cargo carriers” in: E.E. Duckstad. Potential applications of nuclear energy in a marine environment. Washington, August 1959.
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