Merchant Vessel - British Innovator
British Innovator is vessel, which is giving a lot of innovations into the world of gas carrying. This ship is LNG carrier (Liquid Natural Gas Carrier) is designed with double hull technology, which is required by IMO for the last 15 years, and saves the world from possible flowing into the ocean. Such may be a grand disaster for the whole sea life. The deadweight of British Innovator is 75,074 metric tons. The length of the ship is 278.8 meters and the beam of the vessel is 42.6 meters. The draft of British Innovator, when she is fully loaded is 11.35 meters. The vessel can reach the maximum speed of 20.1 knots, and the economy speed is the very good 17.9 knots. With this speed and with innovations into the engine system the vessel is reducing the fuel consumption of fuel with more than 10%, and CO2 emissions with nearly 8% from all other ships from the same class. The vessel has innovative engine and very good shape for reducing strength of the water. The main engine of British Innovator is single steam turbine, made by the famous company of ship-building and engine construction Mitsubishi. The whole power that this engine is giving to the ship is 13,015 kW. The auxiliary diesel generators add 3,100 kW more to the whole ship power and this makes the vessel very powerful and fast. The vessel was built on 13th of November, 2002 and the day is Wednesday. The Samsung heavy Industries Company Limited, situated in Korea creates one bijou in shipping and LNG carrying, and this bijou is British Innovator. The vessel shines with a lot of stars on the crown of BP Shipping and you may easy see this.The vessel was registered in the port of Douglas, island of man and flag of British Innovator is British. The ship is operated by BP Shipping Limited and registered by Lloyd and certified every year from the same institution. Very interesting for this fact is that this vessel passed every inspection with 5 and more points from all 6 available. This means that British Innovator is very modern, well held on and very useful for the company of BP Shipping. The vessel is profitable and with its innovations paid the price for its building many times for the years of sailing. You will see the beautiful vessel into some pictures that we offer to you, and this is the really nice LNG carrying, wonder of engineer building.
Ship's Facts
Name: British Innovator
Type: Gas Carrier
Lenght: 278.80 m
Beam: 42.60 m
Draft: 11.35m
Deadweight: 75,074 m.t.
Year: 2002
Speed: 20.1 kn
Enigne: Mitsubishi
Power: 13,015 kW
