One 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