Speed 50 knots. Dimensions 504(overall) x 100.8 (breadth of hull) x 50.4 (depth of hull) feet, displacement total 51,734 (T) in long tons of 2,240 pounds, leightweight included lead ballast 32,327 tons, lead ballast5,688 tons, liquid ballast 8,540tons, free flooding water 380 tons, less liquid ballast deadweight 39,422 tons, deadweight cargo 18,687 tons, less ballast deadweight 19,021 tons, measurement 20,225 tons of cargo c 40 square feet/ton, 809 bale cubic x 10cubicfeet cubic, 14,200 tons gross tonnage, 7,850 tons net tonnage. Horsepower 285,000 shp. Crew 72 men. Deadweight-displacement ratio 0.191.
Voyage costs excluding stevedoring and agency fees
Sea costs -dollars per day x days 903,200
Port costs-dollars per day x days 745,700
Total cost per voyage 1,648,900
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 9,400
Hull engineering 2,840
Outfitting 3,770
Machinery (1) 120,910
Inspections&owners outfit 2,740
Engineering (8%) 10,950
Lead 2,170
Total 152,780
(1) “Although reactor costs per shaft horsepower declines in the larger sizes, this is largely offset by rising costs of propulsion machinery, reduction gears, etc.”
Manning requirement
Deck 22
Engineering 33
Stewards 17
Total 72
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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