AVRORA OKUSHIRI 571-dwt Passenger / Car Carrier
The 2,230-gt passenger / car carrier AVRORA OKUSHIRI, built t Setoda Works of Naikai Zosen Corporation, was delivered to Higashi Nihonkai Ferry Co., Ltd.on April 8, 1999.
The AVRORA OKUSHIRI, the ninth vessel completed by Naikai to the order of Higashi Nihonkai Ferry, entered service on the Esashi / Okushiri Island oute.
Features
1. The vessel is a twin-propeller twin-rudder passenger / car carrier. Vehicles roll on and off the full-length car deck of the vessel by w y of a r mp door arranged at the stern.
2. The hull is provided with bulbous bow and a split stern for enhanced propulsion performance.
3. The vessel has antirolling tanks to prevent rolling while at sea, and is equipped with bow thruster and Schilling rudders for efficient berthing and unberthing.
4. "Avrora" means aurora (the goddess of dawn) in Russian. As the vessel is intended to serve the route to Okushiri h ving"revived from the ruins of a disastrous earthquake," she was christened the AVRORA OKUSHIRI to symbolize the goddess, suggesting the dawn from the darkness of the tremendous natural disaster which the island suffered.
PRINCIPAL PARTICULARS
Length (o.a.) ... 76.66 m
Length (b.p.) ... 70.00 m
Breadth (mld.) ... 14.50 m
Depth (mld.) ... 4.70 m
Draft (mld.) ... 3.80 m
Gross tonnage ... 2,230
Deadweight ... 571 T
Main engine ... Daihatsu 6DLM-28 x 2 sets
MCR ... 2,000 PS x 720 / 198 rpm x 2
NOR ... 1,700 PS x 682 / 188 rpm x 2
Speed (max. trial) ... 18.320 knots
(service) ... 17.1 knots
Complement ... 16
Classification ... JG Coasting Service
Loading capacity ... 18 trucks or 45 cars
Passenger capacity
In summer (Jul.1 / Aug.31, less than 5 hours): 534
In other seasons (less than 6 hours): 408
Port of registration ... Wakkanai
