CRUISE VESSEL 'VIKING SERENADE'
CONVERSION
Customer
Royal Caribbean Cruise Line A/S, Norway
Southwest Marine Inc., USA
Owner
Royal Caribbean Cruise Line A/S, Norway
Shipyard
Southwest Marine Inc., USA
Main Dimensions
LOA: 185.0 m
LPP: 159.0 m
Breadth: 27.0 m
Draught: 6.8 m
Speed, service: 18.0 kn.
Passengers: 1863
Customer Benefits
- Possibility for the Owner to select a new yard from the market.
- Combining existing experience of the yard and infrastructure to succeed
 in a totally new type of conversion.
- Fast and efficient trouble shooting on site.
Special Features
- The first major passenger cruise vessel project in the US in twenty years.
Commission
Complete conversion project design for the Owner including:
- General Arrangement
- Lightweight calculations
- Stability calculations
- Hull form
- Speed and power estimation
- Feasibility studies
Yard evaluation for the Owner.
Engineering package for the Yard including:
- Naval architectural calculations
- Classification drawings and other basic design
- Detail engineering of hull, outfitting, machinery, HVAC and electric
Management and supervision package including:
- Production assistance and supervision at the yard.
- Responsibility of late design modifications.
- Classification society and USCG meetings and approvals.
Trouble shooting site team
- Weight supervision and special weight survey.
- Coordination and supervision of ventilation supplier.
- Supervision of production organisation.
- Control of progress of supplier's design.
- Supervision of inclining experiment.