Year of construction 1997
Owner: John Swire
Propulsion: main engine 2 x 6120 BHP,
2 x bow
truster 885 BHP,
1 x Stern
truster 885 BHP
Bollard pull: 150 tons
Winch pull: 300 tons
The ship is regarded as a "B-Class Anchor Handling Tug
and Supply Ship" (AHTS).
The task executed by this vessel type comprises anchor handling, towing
of all kinds of offshore structures as well as the supply of oil
platforms.
Table with significant
data of the real ship and the model:
Real Ship [m]
Model [m]
Total Length
66.0
1.32
Total Width
14.6
0.30
Maximum Height
28.5
0.57
Draught
7.4
0.15
Comments:
SWIRE Shipping Company owns 6 vessels of the Type
UT720. The ships are named as:
Pacific Buccaneer, Pacific Battler, Pacific Banner, Pacific Barbarian,
Pacific Brigant and Pacific Blade.
The following link leads to the SWIRE Shipping Company "http://www.swire.com.sg"
and provides more technical data of the vessel as well as detailed
drawings.
If you are interessed in the offshore
industry in general you should give the homepage of Mr. Victor Gipson a
try ( "shipsandoil.com" ). As
a former Master on supply vessels he sailed beside others on the
Pacific Blade which is
a sister ship of the the Pacific Buccaneer as already
mentioned.
He also wrote two books which are "The Histrory of
the
Supply
Ship" and "Supply Ship Operations". These books give a really
detailed
overview over the business. The books are poped up with many
intersting, colored pictures.
Once state of the art unit B-Class AHTS meanwhile the
B-Class AHTS have been surpassed by far by D-Class anchor handlers.
They own propulsions of more than 18,000 BHP, bollard pulls up to 250 t
and their winches can pull up to 500 tons.