Pilot Boat no 17 to Denmark
Published:
18 February 2004
Docksta, Sweden 18 February 2004: Dockstavarvet has delivered yet another 14 meter pilot boat to the Danish Pilotage Authority – the Lodsreguleringsfonden/ -Farvandsvesendet. The new vessel, named FRIGG, was taken over at the Nordhavn A/S facilities, in the port of Aarhus. FRIGG will be stationed at the Belt Pilot´s station in Kalundborg. The Belt Pilot is built up of the former independent pilot organisations Little Belt, Esbjerg, Odense and Kalundborg. Their main station is located to Fredericia and they are altogether about 18 pilots and 29 coxswains.
The new pilot boat FRIGG will replace the former SIRIUS, also delivered
by Dockstavarvet to Kalundborg back in 1994. SIRIUS is now transferred
to Odense, replacing their old 13 meter POLLUX, manufactured in
Dockstavarvet in 1993 and now transferred to Fredericia. ALDEBARAN, the
first pilot boat for Denmark from Dockstavarvet delivered in 1992, has
now been transferred to Esbjerg, where she will replace an old Nelson
pilot boat.
FRIGG, the 17th Pilot Boat from Dockstavarvet to Denmark since 1992, is
the 11th of the 14 m pilot boat type AP14700. It measures 13.9 x 4.6 m
with a hull in aluminium and a resiliently mounted GRP sandwich
deckhouse. The deckhouse includes a raised wheelhouse and a semi sunk
saloon with toilet and pantry. The salon is fitted with a pullman sofa
and a dinette seating 4 persons. Displacement is 22 tons and two Scania
engines, type DSI 14 on 400 kW each, give a sprint speed of 24 knots.
Furuno has delivered the navigational equipment including their new
black-box radar and a 15 inch flat-screen, GPS compass, autopilot and
the MaxSea chart system.
In addition to the normal security equipment, the AP14700 is fitted
with a man overboard direction finder, a rescue crane with a separate
manoeuvring station on the aft deck, to facilitate fast and safe
salvage of a person from the water even under severe conditions.
One further pilot boat is under construction at the Dockstavarvet shipyard for delivery to the Danpilot in Grenaa in May 2004.