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Eastern Shipbuilding Group Inc. (ESG) has completed the third and final Ollis-class Staten Island Ferry for the city of New York. On Sept. 1, the 320'×70'×13' Dorothy Day departed ESG's Port St. Joe (Fla.) shipyard. The new ferry has seating forup to 2,551 and a maximum passenger capacity of 4,500. The three Ollis-class double-ended passenger ferries are from a design by Elliott Bay Design Group, with each ferry featuring four Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) L12ME23B750-rpm EPATier A marine propulsion engines, producing 2,495 hp at 750 rpm each. Two of the main engines connect to one Reintjes DUP 3000 P combining gea rand one 36 RV6 ECS/285-2 Voith Schneider propeller at each end of the ferries. Ship's service power is provided by three EPA Tier 3 marine continuous duty diesel generator sets powered by Caterpillar C18 engines driving 480 V, 60 Hz, 3-phase generators rated at 425 kW at 0.8 P.F. at 1,800 rpm. Each Ollis-class ferry can carry 30,000 gals, of fuel and has a crew of 16. The first ferry, the Michael H. Ollis, was launched in 2019. The second, the Sandy Ground, was launched in 2020. |