Captain David Miller, Senior Master of Spirit of Britain,
with the ship during construction.
New P&O ships receive state of the art
design support from Lloyd’s Register
P&O’s Spirit of Britain, delivered
of the P&O project’, commented Lloyd’s
plan approval and site teams once the con-
in January, is a brand new ro-ro
Register’s Richard Goodwin. Manager, Pas-
tracts were signed, and providing a single
senger Ship Support Centre – New Con-
point of contact for each stage.”
passenger ship on the English
Channel route. Built at STX Rau-
struction.
The ships’ state-of-the-art design re-
John Garner, P&O’s Fleet Director, ex-
flects the company’s desire to be pioneers
ma in Finland she will be joined by
plains: “The design concept for these fer-
and to stay at the forefront of regulations
her sister Spirit of France, from the
ries is for them to have roughly the same
and technology. Both ships comply with
same yard, in September.
operating costs and fuel consumption, and
the changes in methodology for damage
to turn around on the same schedule, as
stability and survivability and the Stock-
the ones they are replacing, even though
holm Agreement requirements for ascer-
they will have double the payload.”
taining the effects of water on deck fol-
T
hese ferries are the first to be designed
lowing a sustained damage.
to comply with the new Safe Return
The presence of Lloyd’s Register
to Port (SRtP) requirements – even though
from the very beginning of the project
Besides the stringent safety and en-
the regulations weren’t yet in force when
has been reassuring. Mike Langley, P&O’s
vironmental aspects, all elements of pas-
the ships’ keels were laid. The SRtP regula-
Programme Manager, Newbuilding, says:
senger comfort have been considered for
tions, though concise, have enormous im-
“These are the first new ferries we have
the ships. The design features a more cus B