Thanks for the post, Sage. That ship is truly impressive!
Electrowave's "Imagineering" (forgive me Disney) and ability to take it to installed product for the Department of Defense is telling of the future path of this division of Deep Down. Their motto may be "Make Yourself Indispensible."
i just cant resist saying what a privledge it had to be to work on a ship of that magnitude--that is one bad ass ride!!
ElectroWave USA designed an Engine Order Telegraph for the brand new United States Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). To equate this technology to the old devices; if you remember in the old movies with ships (like Titanic), the person on the bridge would move these large brass handles between indications like "Full Ahead" "Slow Ahead" "Dead Stop", etc. The ElectroWave USA EOT is its modern day equivalent.
The EOT was designed to be PLC based (a USN requirement), and operate a number of water jet engines. ElectroWave USA designed a system that could easily be marketed to other types of ships. The ElectroWave USA EOT is now listed in the US Navy Catalog as a standard orderable product. You will find a few pictures below of our test and demonstration stand here at the factory.
The propulsion plant of the nation's first Littoral Combat Ship, Freedom (LCS 1), has completed testing in preparation for dock trials. The ship is now ready to begin dock trials -- the final stage of testing before underway trials.
The 378-foot Freedom is powered by an innovative, combined diesel and gas turbine propulsion plant, with steerable water jet propulsion. This system will power the ship at cruise speeds out to ranges exceeding 3,500 nautical miles and will also allow the ship to sustain sprint speeds over 40 knots. Dock trials includes a series of demonstrations of propulsion, navigation, communication and other systems conducted to ensure the ship is ready for sea trials.
There has been rapid progress on Freedom since the beginning of the year. In February, LCS 1's four 750-kilowatt Fincantieri Isotta Fraschini diesel generators were lit off and its three-megawatt electrical power plant was successfully tested. In March and April, initial testing of the two Fairbanks Morse diesel engines occurred. The two Rolls-Royce MT30 gas turbine engines -- the largest and most powerful ever installed on a Navy ship -- were successfully lit off and tested in May, as were the steerable Rolls-Royce Kamewa water jets.
Over the next few weeks, dockside testing of the ship's engines and other systems will conclude at Marinette Marine in preparation for underway trials. Freedom will be delivered to the U.S. Navy in 2008 and will be home ported in San Diego.
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