PRINCIPAL CONTENTS THE NAVAL ARCHITECT JANUARY 1992 International Journal of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects Cruise liner review E6

Editor: The myth ofthe Navier Stokes Tim Knaggs solver E21 Naval Editor: Tycho Brahe — world's largest Robin Burnett, BSc(Tech), IVIRINA double-ended train E23 Assistant Editor: Nancy Turner, BA Hons KalVleWa's quadruple propeller installation Advertisement Manager: on Tycho Brahe E30 Gillian Smyth Advertisement Consultant: News from Europort'91 E32 Pictured above nearing compietion is John Labdon Radisson Diamond, the world's first large Denmark's shipbuilding industry E33 Advertisement Production: SWATH cruise liner. As work on the Debbi Bonner 18,000gt vessel is ahead of scheduie at Costa Classica — Italian-built cruise liner Subscriptions and Publications: Rauma Yards' Rauma worl

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Editor: Sumitomo's first double-hull tanker £73 Tim Knaggs Finland's shipbuilding industries Naval Editor: consolidate £75 Robin Burnett, BSc(Tech), IVIRINA Assistant Editor: New contracts for Saab TankRadar.... E82 Lindsay Cortes, BSc (Hons) Advertisement IVIanager: New air conditioning system from Gillian Smyth Novenco E86

Advertisement Consultant: Inadequacies in stability rules for floating John Labdon platforms E89 Advertisement Production: Debbi Bonner Advances in cranes and cargo Subscriptions and Publications: handling E95 Lesley Smithers The magnificent grand atrium on Ecstasy, Editorial and Advertisement Office: Solutions to the problem of singing 10 Upper Belgrave Street, the second of Carnival Cruise Lines' propellers £705 London SW1X8BQ. 70,000gt diesel-electric liners ordered Telephone: 071-235 4622/4. from Kvaerner Masa-Yards in Finland. It The SCOL tanker: a new altemative £TOS Telegrams: Sinai, London. rises up through six decks and is sur­ Telex: 265844SINAI G mounted by a large giass dome. Carnival Telefax: 071-245-6959 has recently ordered a fourth ship in this Regular Features class, which will boost the fortunes of Fin­ Ten issues published per year: land's consolidated shipbuilding industry January, February, March, April, May, — see our feature on page E75. Editorial comment. £63 June, July, September, October, and November. News review.. £65 Trade and equipment news . £S3 Printed in Great Bntain by: Pensord Press Ltd RINA affairs. Loose insert Blackwood, Gwent NP2 2YA Diary . £T20 The Institution is not as a body, responsible for opinions expressed in The Naval Architect unless it is expressly stated that these are the Council's views.

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PRINCIPAL CONTENTS THE NAVAL ARCHITECT Jé Eiijiiiiii APRIL 1992 International Journal of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects ^^mmm.... Ship design and safety: the House of Editor: Lords report E186 Tim Knaggs Naval Editor: A quartet of freight ro-ro ships from Robin Burnett, BSc(Tech), IVIRINA Poland E188 Assistant Editor: Lindsay Cortés, BSc (Hons) New for service in British Advertisement IVIanager: Columbia E189 Gillian Smyth RINA's ro-ro safety committee Advertisement Consultant: An example of surface objects (the John Labdon tanktop and main transverse bulkheads at work El91 Advertisement Production: of a bulk carrier) generated by one of the design packages from the Finnish com­ Advances in the world of Suzanne Hughes pany Napa Oy. A full report on this and CAD/CAM E194 Subscriptions and Publications: other leading CAD/CAM consultants' sys­ Lesley Smithers tems appears in our special feature which Integrated bridge systems: Editorial and Advertisement Office: RINA Ltd begins on page Et94. here to stay E206 10 Upper Belgrave Street, London SW1X8BQ. A technical critique of IMO's Telephone: 071-235 4622/4. tanker study E210 Telegrams: Sinai, London. Telex: 265844 SINAI G Telefax: 071-245-6959 Regular Features Ten issues published per year: January, February, IVlarch, April, May, June, July, September, October, and Editorial comment. E183 November. News review. E185 Printed in Great Britain by; Pensord Press Ltd Letter to the editor El 92 Blackwood, Gwent NP2 2YA RINA affairs. Loose insert The Institution is not as a body, responsible for opinions expressed in The Naval Architect unless it is expressly stated that these are the Diary. E224 Council's views. A total of 31 integrated bridge systems of the SNA-90 Total Navigator 3 type Registered Charity No. 211161 have been sold to date by the Japan © 1992: The Royal Institution of Naval Architects. This publication is copyright under Radio Co Ltd, together with 45 sets ofthe Warship Technology the Berne Convention and the International more complex SNA-91 model, which fea­ Copyright Convention. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, tures machinery and hull-condition dis­ stored in a retrieval system or transmitted plays. The concept of integrated bridge First Trident submarine Vanguard without the prior permission ofthe copyright rolled out at VSEL E214 owners. Permission is not, however, required control systems seems firmly set to stay to copy abstracts of papers or of articles on with the industry, as our feature on page condition that a full reference to the source is shown. Multiple copying ofthe contents E206 explains. Naval news , E2W without permission is always illegal. Propulsion machinery: the Floréal and ADVERTISEMENT AN2AC frigates, ADS trolling system, REPRESENTATIVES: Wartsila engines in Greek ships, and North of England, Scotland and N. Ireland: George Sommerville, S&M Advertising, CODLAG equipment £277 Suite TIO, Clyde Workshops, Fullarton Road, Glasgow G32 8YL. Tel: (041) 641 9014. Telefax: (041) 641 0927. Italy: Ediconsult Internationale, Piazza Fontane Marose 3,16123 Genoa, Italy. Tel: 543.659; 268.334; 268.513. Telex: 281197. Telefax: (10) 666.578.

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FPJNCIPAL COIMl THE NAVAL ARCHITECT MAY 1992 International Journal of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects Cruise liner update: a report on the latest Editor: advances in this thriving sector.... E229 Tim Knaggs Naval Editor: New one-piece fin stabiliser from Robin Burnett, BSc(Tech), MRINA Brown Bros E234 Assistant Editor: Lindsay Cortés, BSc (Hons) AMP: a travelling Advertisement Manager: cleaning/maintenance unit E235 Gillian Smyth Advertisement Consultant: Diesel-electric power for cleaner DSR-Baltic, completed in February this John Labdon year for Deutsche Seereederei, of exhausts E236 Advertisement Production: Rostock, is an example of Bremer Suzanne Hughes Schichau Seebeck hopes for more Vulkan's BV2700 Panamax-breadth Subscriptions and Publications: cellular container design. The 45,000dwt mini-cruise liners E239 Lesley Smithers ship can carry 2,674TEU (including 100 Editorial and Advertisement Office: reefer boxes) or 2,400 TEU at 14 tonnes The Ecobox: an important new ship RINA Ltd homogeneous load. Propulsion is by a familyfrom Flensburger lOUpperBelgrave Street, Schiffbau.... E240 London SWIX8BG. BV-Sulzer 6RTA72 engine of 16,440kW for Telephone: 071-235 4622/4. a speed of 19 knots. A special feature on Telegrams: Sinai, London. German shipbuilding begins on page New small-bore engine from MaK E243 Telex: 265844 SINAI G E239. Telefax: 071-245-6959 Flender's container ship success at home and abroad E245 Ten issues published per year: January, February, March, April, May, Meyer Werft looks ever brighter E246 June, July, September, October, and November. New orders for Intering E248

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THE NAVAL ARCHITECT PRINCIPAL CONTENTS JUNE 1992 International Journal of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects Highlights of the sail cruising Editor: Tim Knaggs ship Star Clipper E295 Naval Editor: Robin Burnett, BSc(Tech), MRINA Normandie: a new cruise-ferry from Finland for Brittany Ferries E296 Assistant Editor Lindsay Cortés, BSc (Hons) In advance of the formal announcement Azipod: a revolution in propulsion Advertisement Manager: (anticipated in June) of the European E3 drives E307 Gillian Smyth supertanker design, one of the German Advertisement Consultant: participants in the consortium, Howaldts­ Two fruit juice tankers designed by John Labdon werke-Deutsche Werft, has already been Trosvik Engineering E311 Advertisement Production: working on a 280,000dwt double-hull Debbi Bonner concept (illustrated here). Other aspects of tanker designs for the future are discussed New container ship series at 0rskov Subscriptions and Publications: in our feature which begins on page E314. E313 Lesley Smithers Editorial and Advertisement Office: BP'S VLCC structural performance RINA Ltd monitoring E314 10 Upper Belgrave Street, London SW1X8BQ. Telephone: 071-235 4622/4. Substantial double-hull tanker portfolio Telegrams: Sinai, London. at Fincantieri E318 Telex: 265844 SINAI G Telefax: 071-245-6959 Anders Björkman's future VLCC

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THE NAVAL ARCHITECT PRINCIPAL CONTENTS International Journal of the Royal SISPTEMBER 1992 Institution of Naval Architects Via Ligure leads a new series of freight Editor: Tim Knaggs ro-ro ships for innovative Italian service E406 Naval Editor: Robin Burnett, BSc(Tech), IVIRINA Dorbyl makes a shipbuilding comeback Assistant Editor with new container trio E420 Lindsay Cortés, BSc (Hons) Advertisement IVIanager: New advances in shipboard waste Gillian Smyth disposal and galley services E427 Advertisement Consultant: Chiquita Frances is the first of five John Labdon 400.000ffi refrigerated cargo ships SERS: new emergency aid system from originally ordered by Gustaf Eril

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V THE NAVAL ARCHITECT OCTOBER 1992 International Journal of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects Wake-equalising ducts for twin-screw Editor: ships E473 Tim Knaggs Naval Editor: The E3 supertanker unveiled Eê76 Robin Burnett, BSc(Tech), MRINA Assistant Editor Mitsubishi awaits order for mid-deck Lindsay Cortés, BSc (Hons) VLCC concept E481 Advertisement Manager: Gillian Smyth NK Register looks to a promising future Advertisement Consultant: E482 John Labdon

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