March 22nd 2014 : Seagoing tug ELBE (1957) successfully conducted sea trials at North Sea. Lifeboat drill, MOB, anchoring, engine performances, speed and maneuvering were fully tested and OK. This grand old lady is fully alive again !!
I sailed her to Russia in 1990 for Greenpeace as chief engineer. I would like to compliment you on the fine job of refurbishing her. She's a good old girl!
It was used as a pilot STATION ship under the name MARYLAND and was loved for its seagoing stability by the pilots who stayed on board, waiting for their next assignments !
The Dutch built oceangoing tug is originally equipped with 2x SMIT-MAN 6 cyl. RB666 type connected by gearbox / clutches to one propellorshaft with max. output (upgraded in 1966) to 4500 HP /275 rpm. Nowadays the max. poweroutput as a self-sailing historical museumship, this outputpower is never used anymore, but the engines are fully original and still running perfect ! Furthermore, there are 3x Caterpillar Gensets (one speciffically for bowthruster) 1x MTU harbor gen. set and one Cummins Emergency Generatorset.
@@JoopTerpstra thank you sir for the information. I have seen MAN engines here both in marine and electrical power plant applications. Speaking of Dutch built we have had two coastal tramps with Industrie and Stork-Werkspoor engines. Both have been scrapped unfortunately! Have you gotten any video with the Danish built B&W engines? And I forgot to ask what made gearbox is fitted in that tug? Thanks in anticipation.... Keep up the great work you are doing 🇬🇾
@@tickedoffsheikh8587 The gearbox made by Reintjes I think (not sure) and unfortunately I have no info/video from other engines. I followed the restauration process of the Elbe completely from almost scrap up to a sailing museum ship: a lot of my video's can be seen on youtube. Put in my full name in youtube or google and you can find my videos easily Two other ELBE video's: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ijjIGlQdV9U.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xpOM075F2bM.html Regards, Joop Terpstra
@@JoopTerpstra thank you....oh I almost forgot about the Reintjes gearboxes...well here mostly I have come across Twin Disc, Renk and one Reintjes and Lufkin. The powerplants mostly are Caterpillar Detroit Diesel (Two-stroke) in the high speed category while the bigger vessels have MAN, B&W, Brons to name a few...yes these might be dated but they are still workhorses. Thanks again and please continue with the good work. Regards.
De ELBE heeft als voorheen weer MAASSLUIS als thuishaven. Een bezoekje aan de buitenhaven is altijd de moeite waard. Zie ook voor (zee-)reizen en verdere info de website ": www.zeesleperelbe.nl
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I just happened on this wonderful video of a fine ship. Well done!! Thank you for the pleasure of viewing your hard work to make a ship come back to life!
Het schip op de achtergrond was een fregat van de Kon. Marine op veiligheid-patrouille i.v.m. het bezoek van pres. OBAMA aan Den Haag gedurende het weekend van de proefvaart van de ELBE.
Yes, that is correct: Each engine is coupled via a hydro-pneumatic clutch tmo a gearbox ( two input / one (propellorshaft-)output) to combine both engines to a (reduced) propellorshaft. Note: Both engine rpm's and power should be same/sinchronised to enable this clutching ! The propellor is fixed-type, so both engines are reversable ! Nowadays (withoud need of towing-power) manouvring is often performed by two running engines (each engine in opposite direction) and using the clutches to make the propellor rotation direction in forward or reverse situation !
Mr. O'Blivian Why doesn’t each engine have it’s own propeller? These are low speed diesels so they don’t need a gearbox, each could have been directly connected to its own propeller.
