2 - Wednesday, December 2, 1987 - North Shore News

Polar 8 design
contract awarded |

THE DESIGN contract for the $350 million Polar Class 8
icebreaker was officially awarded Friday to North Van-
couver’s Versatiie Pacific Shipyards Inc. and its Vancouver
partner, Sandwell Swan Wooster Inc.

Worth $7.9 million, the contract
will cover the estimated nine mon-
ths that it will take Versatile and
Sandwell Swan Wooster to pro-
duce a design and construction
proposal for what will be the
world’s largest icebreaker.

A consortium of Canadian naval
architects, Polar Icebreaker Con-
structors, will do the actual vessel

Final dimensions of the Polar 8
will be determined in the initial
design phase, but the vessel was
Originally envisioned to be approx-
imately 194 metres (636 feet) long,
32 metres (104 feet) wide with a
12-metre (39-foot) draft and be
outfitted with engines that are
capable of producing between
80,000 and 100,000 horsepower.

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design. Included in the consortium
are Cleaver & Walkingshaw Ltd.
and Peter S. Hatfield Ltd.

When the federal government
signed the letter of intent awarding
the design and construction of rhe
Polar 8 to the two companies in
August, estimated time for the
start of actual vessel construction
was mid-1989.

Completion date for the
icebreaker is mid-1992. Employ-
ment provided for Versatile’s
North Vancouver and Victoria
yards will run up to 1,000 jobs
over an 18-month peak period.

In announcing the design con-
tract award, the federal gov-
ernment stated that Canadian con-
tent of the design phase will be 90
per cent while Canadian content in
the construction phase will be 75
per cent. .

Approximately 70 people will be
involved in the Polar 8's design
phase.

Though, as reported in the Nov.
29 News, delivery of Versatile’s
$92 million Polar Class 4
icebreaker Henry Larsen to the
Canadian Coast Guard has been
delayed until late next spring
because of defective power trans-
formers, Versatile president David
Alsop has said the delay will have
no effect on his company’s Polar 8
preparations.

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