FAR EASTERN QUEEN 74,002-dwt bulk carrier
The 74,002-dwt bulk carrier FAR EASTERN QUEEN built at the Marugame Headquarters of Imabari Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., was delivered to the owner Far Eastern Silo & Shipping (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. in August,1999.
Features
1. This bulk carrier is a flush-decker Panamax type without forecastle, but with a bulbous bow and transom stern.
2. She has seven cargo holds and one of them can also be utilized as a water ballast tank. She can be loaded with such cargoes as bulk coal and ore. Heavy cargoes can be loaded by alternate loading. Homogeneous cargoes can be loaded or unloaded at two different ports.
3. She has large and wide cargo hatches having 48% width of her breadth with side rolling hatch covers transom stern.
PRINCIPAL PARTICULARS
Length (o.a.) ... 224.97 m
Length (b.p.) ... 215.00 m
Breadth (mld.) ... 32.20 m
Depth (mld.) ... 19.30 m
Draft (mld.) ... 13.992 m
Gross tonnage ... 38,888
Deadweight ... 74,002 MT
Main engine ... Mitsui B&W 7S50MC (Mark-VI)
MCR ... 12,000 PS x 115 rpm
NOR ... 10,800 PS x 111rpm
Speed (max. trial) ... 15.840 knots
(service) ... 14.5 knots
Complement ... 23
Classification ... NK
Loading capacity (grain) ... 89,158.17 m3
