Rolls-Royce offers a range of ship designs comprising offshore service vessels, coastguard vessels, fishing vessels and a wide range of merchant vessels. The Rolls-Royce design type UT for offshore operations, launched in the mid 1970s, has become the world-leading design range for offshore service vessels.
![[Image UT 790 WP] A large anchor-handler tug supply vessel, constructed for bollard pulls above 250 tonnes.](/Images/UT790WP-AHTS-450x200px_tcm92-39286.gif "[Image UT 790 WP] A large anchor-handler tug supply vessel, constructed for bollard pulls above 250 tonnes.")
Today's expanding markets in the subsea sector has resulted in vessel designs for rougher seas and equipment for deeper operations. Furthermore, the Rolls-Royce design type NVC has been acclaimed in the fishing and merchant shipping sectors, maximising continuous profitability for owners and operators.
Merchant vessels operating today in Emission Control Areas have to meet new standards for reducing environmental impact whilst increasing efficiency. Our new design concept for merchant vessels is a transformational development for merchant shipping, offering significant reductions in fuel consumption and emissions, as well as enhanced performance at sea.
Our products strike a harmonious balance between performance and ownership costs – all backed by a truly international customer support network assuring lifetime support and low life-cycle costs.
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Rolls-Royce is able to provide a well-founded structure for ship design. We have the skills to deliver a basic design, including the main class drawings, and follow a project all the way to the yard with detailed drawings for production.
We can also assign engineers to the shipyard to ensure knowledge transfer and thus cut construction costs. Choosing a Rolls-Royce design will result in lower costs for customers in all project phases.
All ships are individually designed for their tasks, based on operational demands, classification requirements and overall vessel performance. Close cooperation from the start of a project ensures that consideration is given to all aspects and that the clients' valuable experience becomes a vital part in the work on a vessel's design.
A vessel designed by Rolls-Royce means that customers can benefit from customised tank solutions, deck design, cargo facilities, comfort on board and superbly low levels of noise and vibration. Rolls-Royce supplies optimal solutions in terms of ship design and equipment on board – which are synonymous with maximum performance and ultimate reliability.
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Optimised for the mission and the environment
Rolls-Royce designs simple solutions for complex offshore, merchant and fishing vessels with high functionality – a well-proven major benefit for shipyards and marine operators.
Our primary objective is to create a vessel in perfect harmony with the elements in which it will operate. To achieve this, we keep a strong focus on the overall economy, reliability, safety, and environmentally sound designs.
Each of these factors is vital to developing profitable ship design for the operator. Our pool of in-house expertise in all design disciplines, and a vast range of ship equipment, makes us exceptionally skilled in balancing all these crucial factors to create an optimised vessel.
Despite the complex combinations of optimal hull form, minimum ship motion, safe operation, tailored ship equipment and system solutions, Rolls-Royce designs simple and highly functional solutions. A proven major benefit for shipyards and operators.
New regulations and operational requirements ensure a constant development of vessel designs and equipment. Rolls-Royce is already a major player in marine gas engines, efficient propulsors and advanced deck machinery, ensuring an optimum solution for any operation.
Our solutions are based on the latest technology and close customer cooperation throughout all projects. The result is proven reliability and profitability for your operation. But, first and foremost, decades of experience has taught us to avoid compromising requirements specified by the shipowners, shipyards, operators and crew.
Our success is not worth much unless all parties involved are comfortable with the result. For us, the best reference is that customers keep coming back.
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A vessel designed by Rolls-Royce is far more than just a hull design. It is a turnkey vessel with all major systems fully integrated – comprising well-proven products optimised to the individual ship and its specific operation.
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Experience and advanced technology
Rolls-Royce designed vessels, types UT and NVC, are in operation all over the world – under the toughest conditions known to man. Working closely with operators and crew members on these vessels has yielded invaluable feedback. These experiences form a vital base of knowledge, which enables our designers to develop optimal vessels.
Hydrodynamics is at the very heart of the Rolls-Royce ship design. The analyses and test results include all components vital to the hydrodynamic characteristics of a vessel, such as the manoeuvring, stabilisation and propulsion systems, as well as the hull form. Understanding and solving hydrodynamic challenges constitute key technology areas for future innovations within ship design.
We use advanced calculation programs and tank tests to estimate and verify ship motion in different sea conditions. Many of our new designs have a wave piercing bow design that will enable the vessel to cut through waves in extreme weather conditions, while maintaining constant speed, reducing fuel consumption and
enhancing safety and crew comfort.
Rolls-Royce designs, types UT and NVC, have won wide acclaim for their sea worthiness, innovative arrangements and cost efficiency. For instance, the first ever type UT vessel built in the mid 1970s is still operating safely and at a profit for its owners. In addition to this, our naval architects were involved in the design of a majority of the offshore vessels in the North Sea fleet.
Rolls-Royce is also a major supplier of ship equipment. Our approach to integration enables delivery of complete system solutions – from concept and feasibility studies to ship design, equipment selection, procurement, systems engineering and integration.
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