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Apex

One of three sister tugs Tenax, Apex and Phenix which are part of the Solent Towage fleet at Fawey oil terminal on Southampton Water.

Solent Towage Ltd. is a subsidiary of Ostensjo Hangesund, Norway which has been responsible for towage at the Esso refinery at Fawley for the past 15 years.

Gross tonnage: 643t

Deadweight: 445t

Net tonnage: 193t

Freeboard: 988t.

Overall length: 38.27m

Length between the perpendiculars of 33.27m

Beam 14m

Max Draught: 6.9m

Powered by two Rolls-Royce Bergen (Rolls-Royce Marine AS) C25:33L8P main engines that can produce a total of 6,850 bhp to power a pair of five bladed Voith Schneider cycloidal propulsion units (32 R5/250-2).

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