USARAMO: FIRST OF THREE CONTAINER SHIPS FOR DEUTSCHE AFRIKA LINES FROM AG WESER

Usaramo, delivered in Dec. 1982, is the first of three similar ships which will operate between West Europe and West or East Africa. Because of lack of container handling facilities in most African ports, each of the ships has four electro-hydraulic cranes, three of 40-t capacity serving hatches No. 2 to No. 8 <there are four holds> and the other, of 20-t capacity, serving the stowage space aft of the superstructure. With all handling done by the ship's cranes, container capacity is 1300 TEUs <702 of them on deck>; with handling by shore cranes, capacity is 1346 TEUs <736 on deck>. 100 refriger- ated containers can be carried. The main engine, a B & W 5L80 GFCA of 11,300 kW mcr at 106 rpm <10,170 kW at 104 rpm optimum rating>, is arranged for fuels of up to 6000 sec. Redwood 1. The machinery installation includes an exhaust-gas boiler feeding a 530/670-kw turbogenerator; engine cooling-water is used for heating the boiler feedwater, for the evaporator, and for airconditioning; heat from the intercooler is used for bunker-tank heating. Two 936-kW and one 690-kW <output> Diesel sets are installed. The article, which includes general-arrangement and shell-development drawings and a steel plan, describes Usaramo, and in particular her machinery installation, in some detail. Main particulars include:- length 173.98m o.a., 161.44 m b.p.; moulded breadth 28.4m; Depth 15.45m to upper <freeboard> deck, 12.45m to 2nd deck; design draught 9.5m; summer freeboard deadweight 28,422 t on 12.22m draught; contract speed 18.7 knots on 9.32m draught at 10,170 kW <90 per cent mcr>; 11-t <thrust> bow thruster; class GL + 100 A4, + MC, AUT.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Schiff u. Hafen, 35 <1983>, p.26 <Jan.> (10 pp., 2 tab., 4 diag., 9 phot.)
• Publication Date: 1983

Language

• German

Subject/Index Terms

• Old TRIS Terms: Usaramo
• Subject Areas: Marine Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00684587
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: British Maritime Technology
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 14 1995 12:00AM