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PANDAW DESIGN

Features and Plan
Year of Construction	1947 (by Yarrow & Co. Scotland)
Rzenovation as Pleasure Cruise Vessel	1997 (By Irrawaddy Flotilla Company)
Last Refitting / Renovation	2003-2004 (by IWT and Interconnection Co. Ltd.)
Length	148 ft (45 Mt)
Beam	34 ft (10.3 Mt)
Design Draft	4 ft (1.2 Mt) - Light Draft 2 ft (0.6 Mt)
Engines	2 x 250hp Dorman wit Hydromaster propulsion
Generators	2 x 95 kva Danyo Gensets (Voltage 220V)
Cabins	16 deluxe cabins with own shower/wc
Size	3.65 Mt x 4.26 Mt
Passengers	32
Crew / Hotel Staff	22
Water	desedimentation and full water treatment plan Reverse Osmosis System for the Kitchen
Sewage	treatment plant
Fire Protection	21 Smoke Detectors, 4 Heat Detectors, 8 Manual alarms stations, Electronic Control Panel Silent Knight (Made in Usa) - 20 Fire Extinguishers 8 Fire Hose Cabinets

THE RV PANDAW STORY

The RV Pandaw and other 5 similar so called "class P" design vessels was commissioned after the end of the Second World War by the Inland Water Transport Board of the Union of Burma government with the technical expertise of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company at that time acting as Agents to the LWT. Board.

Rv Pandaw was built in Scotland on the Clyde by the famous ships builder Yarrow & Co on 1947 with the same design of the pre-war Quarter Wheeler steamers of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company. Mter being boarded up in order to protect her from the sea waves, she left Scotland for the delivery voyage to Burma on 1950. On the 12th January 1951 she started to serve the Inland Water Transport (Irrawaddy Flotilla was nationalized on the 1 st of June 1948) on the route Mandalay-Bhamo for both cargo and passengers transportation. In the 1998 she was converted into a 16 cabins luxurious river cruise vessel by the revived Irrawaddy Flotilla Company founded by the Historian Mr. Paul Strachan. IFC has operated the vessel in the rivers of Myanmar for 5 years until 2003 In the second half of the 2003 Interconnection Co. Ltd signed the charter agreement with IWT and the RV PANDAW underwent a major renovation at the Yangon Dalla Dockyards. As far as the Hotel side is concerned new furniture has been specially designed and new Food and Beverage equipment have been bought.


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