Photo Update (Spirit of Britain) – September 2010
Ship Build Updates, Uncategorized
20/09/2010
STX Europe, Finland. With work continuing at pace on both vessels now, I’ve decided to split the photo updates from the yard into Spirit of Britain and Spirit of France separate updates.
As mentioned previously much of the ongoing work on the Spirit of Britain involves the fitting out of the internal spaces and as these begin to take shape we will bring you more pictures of these spaces.
In the meantime, this months updates shows the final ships livery taking shape and in reply to some of your requests, some more ‘techy’ images…..
The main 'P&O' is now in place and work underway on the two blue bands that run around the vessel. Unfortunately, in this picture its difficult to see the two seperate lines as, just like when painting at home, the yard have used a masking tape type effect to keep their lines straight!
The view across the ship's bridge as work commences installing all the equipment required to sail a ship of this scale
The Engine Control Room (ECR) looks a little like something from a sci-fi film. In total there is over 700km of cabling onboard the Spirit of Britain!
These odd looking green tubes (6 in view) are the air conditioning units for the Spirit of Britain
I remember when the Herald, Pride and Spirit of Free Enterprise were introduced and seemed just too enormous. But these are a whole scale bigger again. Actually the maximum size possible with current ( and future ) facilities at the ferry ports of Dover and Calais.
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