The Blue Brother will be leased to Bambini di Ravenna, a maritime transport company specialising in providing offshore support services.
Luigi Duò, president of Vittoria Shipyard, said: “Launch time always represents the crowning moment of a collective effort that brings together workers, engineers and managers with the same passion.”
“Flexibility and agility of the yard’s organisation allowed us to combine speed of construction and top quality standards, strengthening a lengthy collaborative relationship with the Bambini company, of which we are all proud,” he added.
The new vessel will provide support services to petrol platforms and offshore installations, special transport with capacity for up to 80 people and is licensed for international sailing. The new prototype is 51.75m long, 9.20m wide and can reach 28 knots. The €11m construction project started in March 2015 and took a year to complete.
The Blue Brother comes with a DP2 class dynamic positioning system produced by Kongsberg that allows the vessel to keep its position by automatically adjusting the power and direction of the propellers. The vessel is equipped with four Cummins KTA50-M2 engines, which produce 1342kW each at 1900rpm.
Technical specifications and special services include:
- Fire fighting system
- Dynamic position DP2
- Main engines – n.4 Cummins KTA50-M2 1342 kW @ 1900rpm
- Gearbox – n.4 ZF type 5050 A r = 2,962:1
- Propulsion – n.4 propellers d = 1370mm
- Gensets – n.3 175 kVA/cad 50Hz – n.1 emergency genset 95 kVA 50Hz
Vittoria Shipyard has previously supplied Bambini with two ships of this type – Blue Mommy and Blue Daddy – as well as two Shuttle 200s for passenger transport.
By Rebecca Strong
