Rolls-Royce (RR) has signed a contract to deliver the ship design and an extensive range of ship equipment to a purse seiner/pelagic trawler to be built for the shipowning company Gunnar Langva AS based in Ålesund, Norway.
The 75 m long vessel is to be built by Westcon Yards in Norway, and the RR contract is signed with the yard. This will be Westcon’s second order for Gunnar Langva. The previous vessel was delivered in 2013 and also designed by RR.
Gunnar Langva
The new vessel will be the sixth vessel in a row to be named Gunnar Langva after the family-owned company. The Gunnar Langva will be a NVC 353 design, and the equipment to be delivered from RR includes a B33:45 diesel engine, the Promas integrated rudder and propeller system and the hydraulic winches.
The new Gunnar Langva will have a refrigerated sea water (RSW) storage capacity of 2250 m3, and is to be arranged with thirteen single cabins. It will mainly be fishing in the North Sea and the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean. The catch is herring, mackerel, capelin and blue whiting. The vessel is expected to be delivered from the yard in Q3 2019.
Picture by RR.
