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Diesel-Electric for Fisheries Protection Newbuild
01 Apr 2007
The latest vessel being built for the Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency (SFPA) will have an electric propulsion system provided by Rolls-Royce.
This will supply the 2MW propulsion rive package, alternators, a stern thruster motor plus other electrical equipment and the vessel’s integrated control and monitoring system.
The contract award continues a relationship between SFPA and Rolls-Royce which has seen similar packages of equipment supplied for two earlier vessels. The 84m ‘FPV Jura’ joined the fleet last March and, at 2,200 tons, is now the largest FPV in service. The smaller 48m ‘FPV Minna’ was the first SFPA vessel to be powered by a low emission diesel-electric propulsion system.
The new vessel is also 84m long and is being built at the Remontowa shipyard at Gdansk in Poland. Rolls-Royce has manufacturing and service centres in Poland but this is the first time that Marine Electrical Systems has worked with this shipyard.
Equipment was delivered last month and the new vessel is due to be handed over to the SFPA in November.
