Significant Small Ships

Editor: Cheryl Saponia

Significant Small Ships of 2006 describes a wide variety of the most innovative, trend-setting and interesting commercial craft up to 100m in length delivered in 2006 by ship and boatyards worldwide. Each vessel presentation comprises of a full page, with colour photograph, a detailed technical description, the main particulars in tabular form and a list of major suppliers.

Significant Small Ships of 2006

Newbuildings included in the Significant Small Ships of 2006 volume are:

Bourbon Orca - the new Ulstein AX104 design for the offshore industry.

Gavea 1 - delivered this year from Rodriquez Cantieri Navali do Brasil SpA, the Brazilian yard of the Italian Rodriquez Group, entirely built of aluminium.

Svitzer Al Shamal - a wellhead maintenance vessel, from Singapore's Strategic Marine.

OISS Patroller - represents the culmination in the development of the Wave Handler class, from shipbuilder Alnmaritec.

The Evans - a SeaArk Marine delivered a 12.8m Dauntless Class survey vessel to the US Army Corps of Engineers, Navigation Survey Branch, of the Charleston District, USA.

NLV Pharos - a multi function tender for the Northern Lighthouse Board was built at the Gdansk Stocznia Remontowa yard, Poland.

HMS Clyde - 80m offshore patrol vessel (helicopter) (OPV(H), the first ship to be built in Portsmouth Naval Base for nearly 40 years, was delivered in October 2006.

Plus many more.

Significant Small Ships of 2006 provides a wealth of information in a readable format, and features a total of 28 of the most innovative and important commercial designs completed last year worldwide.