Significant Small Ships of 2005
Editor: Cheryl Saponia
Significant Small Ships describes a wide variety of the most innovative, trend-setting and interesting commercial craft up to 100m in length delivered last year by ship and boatyards worldwide. Each vessel presentation comprises a full page, with colour photograph, a detailed technical description, the main particulars in tabular form and a list of major suppliers.
Significant Small Ships 2005 provides a wealth of information in a readable format, and features a total of 28 of the most innovative and important commercial designs completed last year worldwide.
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Significant Small Ships of 2005
Significant Small Ships of 2005 includes the following newbuildings:
- 941: Marine ambulance for navies and civil authorities
- Borcus Firdaus 1: First of four vessels for offshore supply
- Bute: First Scottish ferry for builder
- Capt Rudy: Mega mini first of new vessel concept
- Douro Queen: Luxurious river cruiser sets new standard
- Fesco Sakhalin: Russian double-acting icebreaker/supply ship
- Fairmount Sherpa: World's most powerful tug?
- Grampian Commander: Standby safety vessel first of seven
- Harstad: New coastguard vessel for management roles
- Highspeed 5: Customised 40knot cat
- HMAS Armidale: New class of navy patrol
- Horc: Multi-use craft bridges gap between large and small
- Kanoo 30: New series of crew boats for Gulf work
- Liang Yu: One-off vessel for Chinese yard
- Lora D'abundo: First ro-pax constructed by builder
- Maria Dolores: Fast ferry caters for new niche market
- Morgan Foss: Powerful new compact tug
- Murray: Patrol catamaran for mounted police
- Romulo and Remo: Most powerful tugs in Spain
- SAR 413: Search and rescue series completed under licence
- Sea Fighter: First purpose-built high speed navy cat
- Sea Helper: First of class workboat for Scotland
- Shat Tin: New series of harbour tugs a first for owner
- Sirocco: New vessel for renewable sector
- Spirit of Portsmouth: New ferry for UK service
- Stevns Arctic: Ocean-going tug ice classed
- Tees Navigator: New version of old favourite
- Velox: Innovative escort tug first of class

