Bollinger Shipyards to Refit NOAA's Largest Ship "Ronald H. Brown"
expectant service life of the vessel. During the refit modification, the propulsion system will largely be replaced with new more environmentally friendly diesel generators, renewal of the bow thruster and propulsion motors, new switchboards, control systems, and alarms. Additional ship systems scheduled to be upgraded include the potable water plants, sewage plant, uncontaminated seawater sampling system, HVAC systems, tank level indicators, navigational components, radar renewals, overhead lighting, and ballast and exterior fuel tank vent renewals. Bollinger will replace much of the
Virginia-class Submarine Montana Completes Initial Sea Trials
Fast attack submarine Montana (SSN 794) completed initial sea trials last week, Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) announced. The Virginia-class submarine, built at HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding division, spent several days at sea last week to test the ship's systems and components.Testing included submerging the submarine for the first time and high-speed maneuvers while on the surface and submerged. HII teams will continue the testing program and will deliver the boat to the U.S. Navy later this year.“We are very proud to say the Montana and her crew performed exceptional,”
Fugro Orders First-of-Its-Kind XL Class USV for North Sea Operations
pull, making it suitable for towing spreads and larger sensors. Per SEA-KIT, the vessel can launch and recover a wide variety of remotely operated vehicles and payloads, has fully redundant station holding capability, Cat 0 operations for unrestricted use, and a large lithium UPS supply for ship systems. This build will feature the latest developments in uncrewed systems technology, including the next generation of SEA-KIT’s proven proprietary remote helm USV control and surveillance platform, G-SAVI, the company said.Ivar de Josselin de Jong, Director Remote Inspection at Fugro, said:
Ship Repair: Inside the $60m Refit of RV Roger Revelle
answer to 'bubble masking' was the addition of a 'gondola' that puts the transducers a few feet below the hull on a big metal structure that looks like a hammer head shark. Image courtesy GlostenCleaner powerThe original ship contract value was for $35 million to take care of specific ship systems – propulsion, controls, HVAC, piping, ballast water management – and steelwork to extend the life of the ship another 15 years or more, said Appelgate.But “we knew that other issues on the ship needed to be addressed, or the primary users of the vessel just wouldn’t be
RV OceanXplorer Rebuild Completed by Damen
Damen Shipyards Group has completed the rebuild of research vessel OceanXplorer at Damen Shiprepair Rotterdam. As OceanX’s new flagship, she is equipped with a series of submersibles, sonar arrays, manned submarines, an ROV and AUV, giving full capability to explore and map the depths of the oceans.OceanXplorer’s research facilities are paired with Hollywood quality filming and media studios – developed in partnership with renowned filmmaker James Cameron. With this, the vessel’s findings can be live-streamed to audiences worldwide at the exact moment of discovery.Damen
US Navy Tests Kraken’s KATFISH SAS
with NUWC to develop cost-effective solutions that support the warfighter.”NUWC is part of Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA). NAVSEA along with its predecessor organizations have been responsible for the design, construction, delivery, maintenance and disposal of the U.S. Navy’s ships and ship systems. NUWC is the center for the majority of research, evaluation, engineering operations, and assistance for national underwater systems. It also offers support for domestic weapons systems for any kinds of undersea resources. NUWC DIVNPT has extensive expertise, capabilities, and information in underwater
Lengthened Research Vessel Gets a New Life
. "Right off the bat, we made a concerted effort to fully understand how the existing boat was constructed,” said Steve White, PE, project manager at Glosten. “This enabled us to not only integrate the new hull extension, but also make many improvements in the legacy ship systems.” Glosten’s redesign added a 14-foot “plug” to the ship’s midsection, creating space for six additional accommodation spaces and doubling the size of both the wet lab and dry lab. The lengthening work was recently completed as part of the vessel&rsquo
MOD, ASV Global Ink USV Software Deal
capabilities. This technology will enable ASV Global to access new market areas as well as continuing to solidify our position as the leading autonomous surface vehicle system supplier”. While this software has obvious applications for the marine sector, Dstl’s Dr Philip Smith, Ship Systems & Integrated Survivability Programme Manager says it could be used elsewhere: “There is a need for more efficient platforms with greater automated systems across all domains – air, land and sea – so there are many potential routes for this software.” Initially
Research Vessel Neil Armstrong Joins WHOI Fleet
I woke up the first night out of Anacortes, Washington, when the ship dropped out from under me and I levitated off my bunk. Then came the sound of shuffleboard in the conference room one deck above. The only trouble was, there's no shuffleboard on the research vessel Neil Armstrong. It was Halloween 2015 in the Northeast Pacific. We were in the first hours of the first voyage of the newest ship in the U.S. academic research fleet, and we were already plowing through 15-foot waves. But the ship’s motion made it feel more like we were facing much heavier seas. A hammering gong rang