Canadian Frigate Program
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Twin-Path® Synthetic Slings Lifting an 800 ton ship at the St John Shipyard, in St. John NB, Canada. A series of frigates were built in modular style, this means that each frigate was built in 3 sections in a large "under roof" shipyard. There have been greater single lifts done using Twin-Path® slings, eg. a single reactor lift, however, the slings for the Frigate program, over a long period of time, performed over 50 lifts in a harsh industrial environment. We at Unirope Ltd., still regard these multiple lifts as the "WORLD RECORD HOLDER" for synthetic lifting slings. |
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- 800 tons on the hooks, this is the first of many ship sections to be placed into the dry dock for completion.
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- Ship yard site with Manitowac Ringer Cranes having one ship section on the hook. Both cranes swing to the inside, time delayed to turn the section to fit between the cranes, and then lower them into the dry dock.
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- Detail of Twin-Path® sling connected to load and hook.
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- This is a partial view of the Twin-Path® sling. What looks small on the previous pictures is indeed a large sling!