Corsario Negro
The Corsario Negro was a German-American hydrofoil built in 1967 with fully submerged hydrofoils for 88 passengers and with a measurement of 83 GRT, 16 tdw, length of 22.60 meters and speed of 50 knots.
It was built as hull number 6192 by the Hamburg shipyard Blohm + Voss based on a design by Grumman Aircraft. The aluminum hull was built in 1966 as a subcontract from the Abeking & Rasmussen shipyard in Lemwerder. The Dolphin type boat was the civil predecessor of the later Navy type Flagstaff. The hydrofoil was initially used by the shipping company "Marítima Antares" between the Canary Islands and from 1969 as a Gulf Streak between the Bahamas. In 1970, the US Navy took over the ship to cannibalize it.
The drive power of 3600 hp was generated by a Rolls-Royce Proteus gas turbine. The boat was not designed to be self-stabilizing - stabilization took place automatically via an early form of computer control. The construction of a second boat of the type was still started but was discontinued due to the economic failure of the type ship .
literature
- The Dolphin: A German-American venture , In: Classic Fast Ferries , No. 1, 2001, pp. 8-12.
Single receipts
- ↑ Klaus from the garden: Abeking & Rasmussen. A Weser shipyard in the mirror of the 20th century , Bremen, 1998, pp. 179/180.
- ^ Hansjörg Klante: Die Zeitgeschichte der Automation , In: 100 Jahre Schiffbautechnische Gesellschaft , Springer-Verlag, Berlin, p. 468ff, ISBN 3-540-41670-6