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INDEPENDENCE
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Independence, was built for Boston Towing and Transportation, a Reinauer Company. The offshore support vessel is now based in Gloucester, Massachusetts and under long term contract with Neptune LNG, an affiliate of Suez LNG North America.
Independence incorporates Robert Allan Ltd.'s latest hull design, for optimization of sea keeping, fuel efficiency and crew comfort with controllable pitch propellers with Rolls Royce CCP-255 Z Drives, and is the first application of this type, for Rolls Royce in the United States. This allows the FiFi Class One fire pumps to be driven off the main engines, which saves a great deal of weight and cost by eliminating the fire pump engines found on all other FiFi Class One vessels. The CP drives are also expected to optimize bollard pull, fuel efficiency and vessel speed.
The tug self-loads up to three containers for cargo operations, and has radiantly heated decks , bow bulwark caps, and carbon fiber drive shafts.
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