Coral Princess

[Hapinowagain2]

Somewhere on here I read something about the engines or thrusts being different on the Coral Princess. I wanted to show this to my husband because he was interested and I could not really explain. Can someone help me find this? :(

[AlainBob]

Here's what I can find on the back of the "Log of the cruise" we received at the end of our Panama canal cruise onboard the Coral Princess...

 

- Propulsion type: 2 synchronous electric motors;

- Diesel engines: 2 diesel electric Wartsila 16V 46C;

- Gas Turbines: General Electric LM2500, 25MW;

- Output of main engines: 40000 kW, 2 x 8,64 kW;

- Manufacturer of main engines: Wartsila N.S.D. Italia S.p.A.;

- Thrusters: 3 Bow thrusters Rolls Royce, 3 Stern Thrusters Rolls Royce;

- Propellers: 2 fixed pitch propellers, six blades;

- Rudders: 2 semi-balanced splade rudders

 

Now, here are the same data from the Dawn Princess:

 

- Propulsion type: diesel electric;

- Diesel engine: 4 Sulzer 16 Z40AV;

- Thrusters: 2 bow thrusters HMC 3424 1720 kW x 2, 2 stern thrusters HMC 2422 1400 km x 2;

- Propellers: 2 fixed pitch propellers, six blades;

- Rudders: twin semi-balanced.

 

As you can see, on the Coral (Island), there are 2 Gas Turbines that you don't find on the other Sun class ships. There are also 3 thrusters instead of 2 at the bow and stern of the Coral (Island) ships.

 

Hope this gives you the answer you are looking for...

 

Alain R.

[tomcarson]

The difference is the gas turbine engines. AlainBob is correct in the differences.