New ship: Nordic Heron

This Simutrans ship is based in the real Nordic Heron, a petrol tanker built for Nordic Tankships A/S in 1959. She was renamed & reflagged in 1970 as the «Hariclia Venizelos», with greek flag. She was sold and broken up at Kaohsiung in 1977.

The real specifications for this ship are (taken from marirers-l.co.uk):

• Length: 202 m
• Beam (~"width"): 25 m
• Draught (~"height"): 11 m
• Cargo capacity: N/A
• Max. speed: 16 knots (~30 Km/h)
• Engine power: N/A

See some pictures at snesejler.dk

After a bit of work using blender, these are some results:

Blender renderized output

Simutrans screenshot

This ship has been coded into Simutrans as a modern petrol tanker, which has to fill the timeline gap after 1959, but it might be modified to cover a shorter or different sting.

Simutrans object data

Type	Ship
Name	Nordic Heron
Freight	Oel
Capacity	650 m³
Max.Speed	30 Km/h
Intro Year	1959
Retire Year	N/A

This vehicle is available in the Pak128 2.0. See the Pak128 web site for more info.

For more information on this ship check the following links:

• snesejler.dk
• mariners-l.co.uk