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The Wyeforce was built in
1994 by Hepworth Shipyards of Hull for Itchen Marine.
The Wyeforce's duties include ship towage and liner berthing in
and around Southampton. Her hard chine hull is heavily built, with a
conventional twin-screw layout using fixed pitch four bladed propellers working
within fixed Kort nozzles. Originally the tug was to be built in the
Netherlands as Itchen Marine had thought that the British ship yards
were too expensive. First planed also to use the Caterpillar 3508
engines. However, between Hepworth Shipyards of Hull and the
Caterpillar dealers Leverton in Windsor, an alternative solution was
proposed using Caterpillar 3412
engines. These engines gave an improved power to weight ratio and
the tug was also finally built in England by Hepworth. The finial
solution uses the 3412 engine with box coolers and is coupled to Reintje
WAF 360 reverse reduction gears with a reduction ratio of 6 to 1.
With a total of 1,000kw, a 19 ton bollard pull has been achieved with a
free running speed of 11 knots. Apart from the machinery and
13,000 liters of fuel, there is still room below deck for four crew
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