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Ships Monthly provides news and features for ship enthusiasts and maritime professionals, including reports on the ferry, cruise, new building and cargo ship scene as well as navies across the world.
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Tuesday, 07 February 2012 00:00 |
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 Malaysia is to become the first customer for a Gowind warship after a €2.14 billion deal was agreed in December 2011. The Royal Malaysian Navy has opted for the 107m variant, the largest of the French-designed Gowind series, to meet the needs of its Littoral Combat Ship programme.
Six corvettes are to be built by the Boustead Naval Shipyard, a facility located inside the navy’s main base at Lumut. The 2,750-tonne ships will be armed with a 57mm mounting, surface-to-air missiles and torpedoes. Four diesel engines will give a maximum speed of 29 knots.
The deal is something of a coup for the DCNS yard as the RMN has traditionally chosen Germany for its corvette requirements. The French company has not had things all its own way though, as the Malaysians have insisted on Thales’ Taciticos combat management system rather than their own SETIS system to reduce training and support costs.
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Tuesday, 07 February 2012 00:00 |
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 P&O Cruises’ 680-passenger Adonia (2001/30,277gt) underwent emergency repairs at the A&P Falmouth shipyard in early January, prior to setting sail on an 87-day Round South America Cruise from Southampton on 13 January. The unscheduled drydocking, which P&O would only describe as being due to ‘essential maintenance’, resulted in the cancellation of a ten-day cruise from Naples to Southampton.
Adonia was built as R8, the last of a series ordered by Renaissance Cruises. She then sailed as Minerva II for Swan Hellenic and Royal Princess for Princess Cruises before joining P&O as Adonia in May 2011, a replacement for Artemis, which had just left the fleet on her acquisition by Phoenix Seereisen.
• In other P&O News, Oriana (1995/69,153gt) spent a month at the Blohm + Voss Shipyard in Hamburg before Christmas undergoing a refit, which included the removal of all children’s facilities, as she will now be marketed only for adults. The work also saw the addition of 27 new cabins.
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