CONSTITUTION FINALLY LEAVES DRYDOCK FOLLOWING RESTORATION
After a painstaking two-year restoration at Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, USS Constitution has recently been refloated. Since she entered dry dock in 2015, ship restorers from the Naval History and Heritage Command and teams of Navy sailors have worked side-by-side to bring “Old Ironsides” back to her former glory.
The restoration involved the replacement of 100 hull planks, along with caulking, rebuilding of the ship’s cutwater on the bow, and the preservation and repair of the ship’s rigging, upper masts and yards. Among other tasks, sailors assigned to Constitution helped the Navy’s ship restorers replace 2200 sheets of
copper and the felt that is installed behind it. The copper is a defense against shipworms. “It’s an incredible feeling to be a part of the team to work on Constitution,” said Aviation Ordnanceman Hunter Sensign. “Every day I came to work and it really sinks in that I’m working on a ship that’s 219 years old.”
Constitution is expected to continue post-docking restoration work before re-opening to the public in early September. While she is ordinarily at the pier at the USS Constitution Museum in Boston, her commanding officer, Cmdr. Robert Gerosa, says that at some point she will be seen under way under her own power once more.
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THE WORLD’S FIRST FULLY ELECTRIC AIR SUPPORTED VESSEL PICKS UP THE AWARD
BB Green, the world’s first fully electric air supported vessel by Green City Ferries has been awarded the ‘electric and hybrid propulsion system of the year’ at the Electric & Hybrid Marine World Expo Conference 2017 in the Netherlands.
The fourth annual Electric & Hybrid Marine Awards took place in Amsterdam where a judging panel made up of leading international marine journalists, industry experts and academics, honoured the world’s finest engineers and innovative products in the electric and hybrid marine arena. The BB Green is used as a commuter ferry for up to 99 passengers on the inland waterways around Stockholm.
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RECORD-BREAKING HEAVY LIFT FIVE YEARS IN PREPARATION BUT JUST TEN SECONDS TO EXECUTE
Much publicity has accompanied the story of Allseas’ giant decommissioning and pipelaying vessel Pioneering Spirit. After a test lift and first commercial removal of Repsol’s Yme platform in the Norwegian North Sea it has more than passed its first real test with removal of Shell’s 24,200t Brent Delta platform topsides. Now details about its part in the record- breaking lift of this decommissioned oil platform topside have been revealed by Kotug International BV.
Five years of engineering and study work preceded the operation yet it took a mere ten seconds for Pioneering Spirit to lift the topside clear of its jacket.
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