Ship Specs for SS Thorfinn

IMO (International Maritime Organization) No. 5359901

  • Length, overall: 170ft / 58m
  • Beam: 30ft / 10m
  • Draft: 17ft / 5.5m
  • Displacement: 1,100 tons
  • Fuel Capacity: 340 tons
  • Consumption/Speed: 7 tons/day @ 11 knots, 11 tons/day @ 16 knots.
  • Water Capacity: 18,000 gals
  • Cruising Range: 9,000 nautical miles @ 11 knots
  • Maximum Speed: 16 knots

Ship Layout

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Constructive Records:

  • Batangas, Philippines 2008 – major repairs, internal/external reconstructions
  • Batangas, Philippines, 2005 – steel replacement / renewal, extensive renovations
  • Cairns, Australia, 1995/6 – extensive renovations, accommodation upgrades
  • Vancouver, B.C., 1977 – initial conversion to Utility Charter cruiser
  • Original Construction, Stord Shipyards, Norway, 1954 – as Ice Class whaler

Facilities:

  • 10 double occupancy rooms for 20 guests.
  • 13 Toilets, 11 Showers, eight in private facility guest rooms.
  • ‘A’ deck with upper bridge controls, electronics mast.
  • ‘B’ deck with navigation bridge forward, chartroom/business center, liferafts, emergency beacons, dive launch storage, aft sun deck with lounge chairs and shade canopy.
  • ‘C’ deck Guest Lounge seating 30 persons, bar, DVD and reading library, surround sound CD/player with I-pod connex, 50” LED TV with DVD player, 2 shower rooms, two toilet rooms, Guestroom No’s 9, 10, and 11. Hallway storage closets.
  • ‘C’ deck aft of Main Lounge, with 2 camera service/storage tables, tabled over spa, and adjacent deck chairs.
  • ‘D’deck forward interior with Dining Room, 5 tables seating 26 persons, adjoining galley and pantry, view windows, bookcase, stairs down to crew area.
  • ‘D’ deck aft interior with Boatique (handicrafts, t-shirts, postcards), dive service center, steering flat, ‘Thor’s Lair’, a large room with luxury appointments, and Room 3.
  • ‘E’ deck aft, with big ensuite Guestrooms 4,5,6,7,8.
  • E deck forward, with large crew mess room, laundry, 3 crew rooms, toilet and shower rooms, walk-in cooler/refrigerator, deck stores and spare outboard motor parts.
  • F deck, with 2 crew rooms, large 2 sided hold with O2 generator, diving compressors, dive and oxy cylinder storages, heavy deck stores.
  • F deck forward of collision blkhd, is anchor chain locker, anchor capstan hydraulic drive motor.

Communications:

  • 1 x Icom IC-M 700 Med. Freq. SSB radio telephones
  • 1 x Icom IC-M 80 25w VHF radio telephone
  • 1 x Sailor RT 144 25 wVHF radio telephone
  • 3x Standard Horizon 25w VHF radio telephones, 2 located on dive launches
  • 1 x Alden Marinefax IV weather facsimile unit
  • 1 x Kenwood R-2000 multi-band radio receiver
  • 3 x standard Mod. HX 250S hand held portable VHF r/t’s
  • 1 x Trimble Galaxy Sentinel Inmarsat-C Comsat terminal
  • 1 x Inmarsat Sailor Fleet BroadBand 500 Comsat terminal, with Wi-Fi Internet to entire ship
  • 1 x Iridium IOP comsat terminal for auxiliary Broadband backup

Propulsive Machinery:

  • Main Engine: Fredriksstad Mek 4 cyl. double compound steam – 2,500 h.p. @ 140 rpm
  • Boilers: 2 x Foster Wheeler D type 18,000 lbs./hr @ 250 psi, 600 deg F superheat)

Generators:

  • 2 x Yanmar 6HAL-DTN diesels driving Marathon 250 kw 220 VAC 3 phs 60Hz generators
  • 1 x Mitsubishi diesel driving 40 kw 220 VAC 3 phs 60 Hz generator
  • Ships power supply is both 220 and 110 VAC single and 3 phs 60 Hz outlets

Pumps:

  • Steam: 1 x 12 in. , 1x 8 in., 2x 3 in. Gen. Service
  • Electric: 6 x 2 in. submersibles
  • Gasoline fire pump: 1 x 2 in. Standby Emergency
  • Oily water separator: REC Boss 107 system

Navigation:

  • GPS: 2 x Magellan Nav DLX-10, # Garmin handheld units
  • Radars: 2 x Furuno Model 1954C 15kw radars feeding Navnet VX2 GD -1920C color video plotters, with sonar input feeds.
  • Main Compass: Furuno Satellite Compass SC 30 via an AMI-GMV KW 941-D stepper retransmitter unit
  • Auto Pilot:Wagner Mk IV
  • Sonar: Furuno Network sounder Model ETR-6/10N

Aux. Equipment:

  • Water Generators: Component built R / O system producing (2,500 gals / day)
  • Air Conditioning: 8 individual systems with combined 30 tons output capacity
  • Propeller: Kort Design 4 blade Superston, 12′ 6″ diam x 13′ 6″ pitch.
  • Anchors: 2 x 3,800 lbs ea. stockless with 8 shots (64 fms) of 1 3/4″ stud link chain)

Dive Equipment:

  • Dive cylinders: 90 pcs 80 cu. ft standard alloy; 10 pcs 100 cu ft; and 20 pcs 30 – 40 cu ft ponies; 8 sets manifolded /banded double 80’s
  • Breathing gas storages: 6000 cu. ft. air supply @ 5000 psi; 2,400 cu ft Oxygen@ 2,000 psi
  • Fill stations: 2 x 4 cylinder capacity manifold setups Port and Starboard with in water filling
  • Rentals (6 full sets of gear incl. computers, reg’s, BCD’s, fins, masks, lights, SMB’s)
  • Oxygen Generators: 2 x OGSI Mod. 2020 producing 960 cu ft daily
  • Oxygen Boosters:
    2x Rix MB 230 Micro Boost electric primary units
    1x Midwest Pressure Systems Model 42AAV48-ACG O2, air driven
    1x Masterline Mfg Model 211V3 electric, as final deck gas blending unit
  • O2 Blending System for EAN Nitrox and Tri-mix provisos – via portside blending setup

Dive Air Compressors:

  • 1 x Bauer Model IK 15.1 ll unit producing 21 cfm to 5000 psi
  • 1 x Bauer/Poseidon P 201 of 7.5 cfm to 5,000 psi

Diving launches

  • 2 x 30 ft custom built Auztec Heavy Aluminum, covered – Twin Yamaha 150’s
  • 2 x 24 ft Kellahan Mfg heavy duty alloy modified V, with twin Yamaha 60’s
  • 1 x 24 ft Ozawa heavy duty modified fiberglass, with twin Yamaha 40’s