PHOTO: Isaac Newton Construction Progresses
Belgian students paid a visit to Uljanik shipyard in Croatia and witnessed the construction process of Jan de Nul’s multipurpose vessel ‘Isaac Newton’.
The vessel with deadweight of 10,500 tonnes and a total length of 138 m is currently under construction in Pula and it’s expected to be delivered mid-2015.
It will be a trenching and offshore support vessel, a subsea rock installation vessel and a cable laying vessel.
Jan de Nul said that the vessel, in the cable laying mode, will be able to install up to 10,000 tonnes of cable and will thereto be equipped with a 5,500 tonnes capacity turntable above deck and a 4,500 tonnes capacity turntable below deck along with tensioners as required by the project, chute and auxiliary equipment.
In the subsea rock installation mode, the vessel will be able to install up to 10,000 tonnes of rock in a single load by using the aft stone hopper with a capacity of 3,000 tonnes and the midship hopper with a capacity of 7,000 tonnes along with the two excavators and the fall pipe for accurate rock installation at up to 200m water depth.
The company noted that Isaac Newton will be the 76th vessel in the fleet of Jan De Nul Group.
