Alnmaritec recently announced the launch of the second in a series of four sister ships to be delivered for duties in wind farm support roles.
The ‘Endeavour’ has been built for the operators ‘North Sea Logistics’ and she is a sister vessel to the ‘Aaryan’ launched last year for the same company. ‘Endeavour’ is an aluminium asymmetric catamaran 18m long and 6.2m wide with a displacement of around 27 tonnes. She is fitted with twin 800bhp electronically controlled Cummins QSK19 diesels engines driving conventional four bladed 800mm diameter fixed pitch propellers through Twin Disc MGX 5135 Quick Shift gearboxes. These give her a top speed of 25 knots and she is also fitted with twin electric bow Thrusters.