Iceni Marine's latest vessel, Iceni Venture,
was formally launched at St Katherine's dock in London today. The 22m vessel
was built by Southboats IOW and is part of a three boat order. sister vessel
Iceni Vengeance is on schedule for delivery in the coming weeks.
Iceni Marine is based in Lowestoft in the
east of England where it was established by Guy Gibson and Richard Thurlow
in 2009. The company was bought by the Turner group in July 2013.
Iceni Marine Services Director, Richard
Thurlow comments: “Today is a milestone for Iceni Marine Services -
bringing our new first of class 22m Iceni Venture into the heart of the
City of London. With Iceni Pride, our 14m rapid response vessel also on
display, we will provide our guests with a real insight into the offshore
wind industry and also demonstrate the quality of the Iceni fleet.”
Iceni Venture is an all-new South Cat 22m
which benefits from the extensive testing programme carried out to by South
Boats to understand the benefits and limitations of various hull forms
and how they perform.
Ben Colman, Sales & Marketing manager,
South Boats IOW: “Many of the existing hull forms demonstrated peaks
of performance in one area but tended to have dramatic limitations in another.
Iceni Venture is the first crew transfer vessel to addresses this and promises
to deliver a new benchmark in performance. In addition, this design has
been fully tank tested to optimise sea-keeping,
running trim and performance.”
Iceni Venture will carry 12 technicians
alongside three crew members to and from wind farm developments in UK and
European waters. She is South Boats' first to employ a controllable pitch
propeller using Servogear, and has achieved sprint speeds of up to 32 knots
in recent sea trials.
The Iceni Venture and sister vessel Iceni
Vengeance (due to be launched in later this month) will expand the Iceni
fleet of South Catamarans to six.
You visit the vessel specs here: http://www.icenimarine.co.uk/boats/iceni-venture.php
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