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of the greatest oil tankers of Ernst Jacob Group is the one called
Kim Jacobs. The ship has a deadweight of 159,211 metric, which classify
this vessel into the large crude carrier (LCC). The oil tanker Kim
Jacobs has a length of 274 meters and a beam of 48 meters. The vessel
has a draft of 23.20 meters. With these measurements that vessel
has gross tonnage of 81,265 metric tons and net tonnage of 50,735
metric tons.
The vessel was built in the ship-yard of Daewoo Heavy
Industries in Korea, which is not talking very good about this company
I think. I suppose the some intelligent and well known ship-owner
should pay more attention to ship-builders, mostly because the vessel
will be operated by him. Well Daewoo is not the worst ship-yard
in the world, but not the best too. And we all know this. Kim Jacob
was put on water is the late year 1998 and the month was June. The
ship is sailing under the flag of Liberia, but it was registered
by German Lloyd. That is very important for this ship, because the
requirements of Liberian Maritime Administration are too low, in
comparison with German Lloyd’s.
 Kim
Jacob has 12 cargo tanks and 2 slop tanks, and with all these cargo
space the ship has capacity of 166,684 cubic meters at 98% loaded.
The slop tank capacity is about 3,196 cubic meters. This is very
important mostly in tank cleaning, but some ships are not using
slop tanks at all. The ship is with well equipped cargo system,
and the cargo pumps ate 3 each with capacity of 3,500 cubic meters
per hour. The cargo pumps are SHINKO, and the type is centrifugal.
The vessel Kim Jacob can reach speed of 16 knots. This
is possible because of the strong main engine, which is MAN B&W
6S 70 MC MK 6, with whole power of 16,860 kW. The auxiliary diesel
generators and 3 numbers MAN B&W 6L 23/30H with power of 850
kW each. I told that ship-yard of the vessel is not so high qualited,
but engine is very good, and I suppose that this is the new generation
diesel generator, which is in use on many ships built these years.
The propeller of Kim Jacob is also very good, with fixed pitch,
made from high quality materials M-Ni-Br-Al. This is why this vessel
is so interesting in engine point of view.
date: 11th May, 2008 |
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