MV City of St. Petersburg
Appearance
City of St. Petersburg leaving Tyne
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History | |
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Name | City of St Petersburg |
Owner | Fair Wind Navigation S.A. |
Port of registry | Panama |
Builder | Kyokuyo Shipyard Corporation |
Yard number | Shimonoseki 493 |
Completed | 22 December 2010 |
Identification |
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Status | Operational |
General characteristics | |
Type | Car carrier |
Tonnage | |
Length | 139.99 m (459.3 ft)[1] |
Beam | 22.4 m (73 ft)[1] |
Draught | 6.5 m (21 ft) |
Depth | 24.45 m (80.2 ft) |
Decks | 12 |
Deck clearance | 1,460 mm (57 in) |
Installed power | 7-cylinder two-stroke engine |
Propulsion | Single shaft |
Speed | 16.9 knots (31.3 km/h; 19.4 mph) |
Capacity | 2,000 vehicles |
City of St. Petersburg is a roll-on/roll-off, pure car carrier cargo ship made for Nissan Motor Company Ltd, designed with a sleek semi-spherical prow to reduce wind resistance, thus saving 800 tons of fuel annually.[2]
See also
- Nichioh Maru, Nissan's domestic car carrier
References
- ^ a b c "Advanced Masterdata for the Vessel City of St Petersburg". VesselTracker. 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
- ^ "Nissan Goes Toyota One Better With Cooler-Looking Cargo Ship (Video)". Green Car Reports. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
External links
Media related to City of St. Petersburg (ship, 2010) at Wikimedia Commons