Ship Specs

Ship specs for SS Thorfinn, IMO No. 5359901, Specifications

  • Length, overall 170ft / 58m
  • Beam 30ft / 10m
  • Draft17ft / 5.5m
  • Displacement: 1,100 tons
  • Fuel Capacity: 100,000 gals
  • Consumption/Speed: 7 tons/day &12 kts, 11 tons/day @ 17 kts.
  • Water Capacity: 18,000 gals
  • Cruising Range: 12,000 naut. miles @ 12 knots cruising
  • Maximum Speed: 17 knots

Ship Layout

Original Construction:

  • Stord Shipyards, Norway, 1954 – as Ice Class Antarctic whaler

Major Reconstruction:

  • Batangas, Philippines 2008 – major repairs, internal/external rebuildings
  • Batangas, Philippines, 2005 – steel replacement / renewal, extensive renovations
  • Cairns, Australia, 1995/6 – extensive renovations, upgrades
  • Vancouver, B.C., 1977 – to Charter cruiser

Accommodations / Facilities:

  • 10 double occupancy rooms for 20 guests.
  • 13 Toilets, 11 Showers, eight in private facility guest rooms.
  • ‘A’ deck with topside 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, 44in. multi System Plasma TV, guest PC with SatCom Internet. Guestrooms 9,10,11.
  • ‘C’ deck Spa Area with 11 person spa, 2 camera service/storage tables, adjacent deck chairs.
  • ‘D’ deck forward interior with Dining Room, 5 tables seating 26 persons, view windows, galley, bookcase.
  • ‘D’ deck aft interior with Boatique (handicrafts, t-shirts, postcards), dive service center, steering flat. Thor’s Lair, a large luxury room with finest appointments, and Room 3.
  • ‘E’ deck with Guest rooms 4,5,6,7,8.

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
  • 1x Inmarsat Sailor Fleet BroadBand 500 Comsat terminal, with wi-fi terminal to entire ship
  • 1 x Iridium IOP comsat terminal for auxiliary Broadband backup

Machinery:

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

Generators:

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

Pumps:

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

Navigation:

  1. GPS: 2 x Magellan Nav DLX-10
  2. Radars: 2 x Furuno Model 1954C 15kw radars feeding Navnet VX2 GD -1920C color video plotters.
  3. Main Compass: Furuno Satellite Compass SC 30 via an AMI-GMV KW 941-D stepper retransmitter unit
  4. Gyro Pilot:Wagner Mk IV
  5. Loran: Si-tex Koden Loran C 797
  6. Sonar: Furuno Network sounder Model ETR-6/10N

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 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

Dive Equipment:

  • Dive cylinders: 90 pcs 80 cu. ft standard alloy; 10 pcs 100 cu ft; and 20 pcs 30 – 40 cu ft ponies; 9 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 cyl. manifold setups Port / Starb’rd, 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
  • O2 Blending System for EAN Nitrox and Tri-mix provisos – via deck located Masterline electric gas booster

Diving launches

  • 2 x 30 ft RIB Heavy Duty 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