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3 Rolls RoyceProteus & 2 Volvo APU turbines/Vosper

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Topic: 3 Rolls RoyceProteus & 2 Volvo APU turbines/Vosper
Posted By: woodnuts
Subject: 3 Rolls RoyceProteus & 2 Volvo APU turbines/Vosper
Date Posted: 11 February 2010 at 12:57pm

Hi,

yesterday at Southampton I saw the impressive 60 Knots HighSpeed "Yacht" built 1960 by Vosper (with similar Specs of the SR.N4s) for Stavros Niarchos known as "Mercury", powered by 3 Rolls RoyceProteus & 2 Volvo APU turbines. She's a still sound triple diagonal built.

I never saw a "Jet boat" from near, and I was impressed by the decandez of THREE Jets - we had fun thinking of the tank size and consumption. 

She's waiting for a refit and had obviously nobody scrubbing the deck for a loooong time. A bit of weed killer would help definetely ;O)  ...at the front are still some taped marks of some contruction pieces of Spinnacker Tower which had fallen down damaging her, when she was moored under it at Gunwharf.

Sorry for the bad picture, but my digicam is crap: (click on it to supersize it)

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