UK: Lockers Trawlers Invests in New Vessel

Lockers Trawlers Ltd. of Whitby have placed an order for a versatile 25m whitefish vessel with local boat builders Parkol Marine Engineering. The latest hull and propulsion technology will by a key feature of the vessel, which, as the biggest order placed by owners in England for fourteen years, represents a highly significant achievement for the two progressive Whitby Companies.

With a registered length of 23.95m and 8m of beam, the fully shelterdecked the Lass III will feature a totally new hull form and centerline package that has been developed through a evaluative programme of optimisation tests to meet the owners specific requirements in terms of carrying capacity, speed, seakeeping and fuel efficiency.

Arnold Locker, MD of Lockers Trawlers Ltd. said, “When the opportunity arose to consider replacing Our Lass II, the consistently successful performance of which paved the way for the new buiuld, we decided to take it. That two years of work have already gone into this build shows the amount of research and development work that has already gone into the project behind the scenes“.

The Lass III will feature a triple Mitsubishi engine package. This will include a S6R2 propulsion unit, SLBA3 electrical/hydraulic auxiliary engine and a 6016 genset. Fuel capacity will be 25,000 litres, some of which will be carried in double bottom fuel tanks under the floor of the fishroom, which will have a working capacity of some 1150 boxes.

Rapp Ecosse UK Ltd. of Peterhead will supply the trawler’s full deck machinery package. This will include three 15t split trawl winches, two of which will be mounted on the shelterdeck aft of the wheelhouse. A third winch, fitted with larger diameter flanges for use when pair-seining, will be located forward on the main deck. Two 2 x 12t net drums will be positioned as customarily on the quarter. A 5t bagging winch will also be mounted on the starboard side of the trawl gantry.

The Lass III will be the fourth new trawler Parkol Marine Engineering has built for Lockers Trawlers Ltd. since 1999 when the 18.25 Rebecca WY 790 was launched. The vessel is scheduled to be delivered in the spring of next year.

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Source: Parkol, September 27, 2012