SIX PACK - ELIZABETH SWANN

 

  A WHALE OF A CONSERVATION TALE SET IN OUR PLASTIC INFESTED OCEANS

Please use our A-Z INDEX to navigate this site

 

 

 

 

The Elizabeth Swann is a fast solar and wind powered boat, loaded with juicy tech, that gives her the technical edge on her rivals. During a race around the world, news of the sinking of a pirate whaling ship reaches John Storm and his mate Dan Hawk. They decide to abandon the race and try and save the wounded whale, even though they are miles in the lead.

 

 

 

 

The Elizabeth Swann is a ZEWT trimaran with a long thin central hull and two outriggers, a unique design that allows her to store energy in batteries and as hydrogen gas or liquid, as needed, either manufactured onboard via an electrolyzer. The central hull is partly submerged. She has two helm positions, one enclosed forward and a second helm open to the rear. The open rear cockpit has steps down to a diving platform.

 

The boat is solar and wind powered, with a large hybrid energy store and advanced navigation system to track solar and wind energy, that allows her to cruise autonomously, without range restrictions, free of fossil fuels - and without the need for human piloting, as and when the feature is invoked.

 

The Swann has three solar arrays, two of which are moveable and track the sun. She also has a wind turbine mounted on a retractable mast, that allows the captain, or the autonomous control computer called 'Captain Nemo,' to furl the wind turbine in stormy conditions.

 

When using the (reserve) hydrogen banks, fuel cells convert the gas into electricity. On this reserve the trimaran can travel up to 6,000 nautical miles, without her energy harvesting apparatus. For the WZCC race, the Swann will adhere to the rules as to making hydrogen onboard, when moored or when the ship's batteries are fully charged, so as not to waste energy.

 

The boat was developed by Professor Douglas Storm in various locations all over the world, for the purpose of long endurance autonomous (even unmanned) transits. She was way ahead of her time, including an advanced self-learning program called 'Hal,' but could not be completed before the passing of Professor Storm, who died (went missing presumed dead) in mysterious circumstances, after a much modified version of the Swann, set a hydrogen powered record: Around the World in 80 Days, headlined as the Jules Verne Challenge, then was stowed away for safe keeping.

 

The secret to the performance of the Swann, is her energy storage and conversion system, with fuel cells of exceptional efficiency. This has caught the attention of ship operators all over the world, but the system is a closely guarded secret, where the patent system is regarded as unfriendly to innovators by Professor Storm, such that he refused to publish his designs, by way of being a conscientious objector and campaigner for progressive change and equal rights for inventors.

 

This stance enraged many governments around the world who'd been using knowledge transfer gimmicks to effectively purloin ideas without rewarding the developers. In rocking the intellectual property boat, some unscrupulous fleet operators decided to try and obtain the secret formula, by stealing it. No matter what that entailed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Elizabeth Swann is seen above at various angles to assist artists in the production of the graphic novel. Please note that although two wind turbines are shown on some older artwork, that the Swann will be a single turbine vessel - where the turbine may be raised, lowered and furled. In these pictures the turbine is fully raised with a following wind. The boat may be drawn with the turbine lowered to assist compositionally. Equally, the solar wings are show folded out flat. In storm scenes, the two outer wings would be folded over the central hull section to reduce windage. In addition, the wind turbine may be lowered and folded from the vertical position, to a horizontal position - again - to reduce windage. It's a bit like furling sails, only the modern high-tech version.

 

 

 

ENTRANT

DESCRIPTION

CAPTAIN

 

   

Elizabeth Swan

Solar/Wind powered trimaran

John Storm

Khufu Kraft

Solar powered trimaran

Abdullah Amir

Photon Planet

Solar powered trimaran

Lars Johansson

Seashine

Solar/Wind powered catamaran

Ben Jackman

Starlight

Solar/Wind trimaran

Sarah-Louise Jones

Sunriser

Solar/Wind powered catamaran

Jean Bardot

-

-

 

 

 

 

 

The Elizabeth Swann is a solar and wind powered trimaran. One of the Six-Pack round the world competitors, captained by John Storm. Details of the design are subject to change with development as necessary. This is a picture of a 1:20th scale model that we will be completing as this project proceeds.

 

 

 

 

 

LEG

NAUTICAL MILES

BUNKERING

WAYPOINT

SUNSHINE DAYS

-

-

-

-

-

START

-

-

-

-

-

-

FILL UP

Gibraltar

00.00

1

729

-

Tenerife, Canary Islands

1.90

2

3,154

-

Trinidad, Port of Spain

8.21

3

1,182

1

Panama City

3.00

4

970

-

Galapagos

2.45

5

3,640

-

Tahiti

9.48

6

1,423

-

Tonga, Nukualofa

3.71

7

410

-

Fiji, Suva

1.07

8

1,886

1

Port Moresby PNG

4.91

9

340

-

Thursday Island, Cape York

0.88

10

724

-

Darwin

1.89

11

1,572

-

Jakarta, Indonesia

4.09

12

1,881

-

Colombo, Sri Lanka

4.90

13

2,109

1

Aden, Yemen

5.49

14

698

-

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

1.82

15

670

-

Port Said, Egypt

1.75

16

1,111

-

Palermo, Sicily

2.89

17

170

-

Naples, Italy

0.44

18

940

FINISH

Gibraltar

2.45

-

-

-

-

-

-

23,609

-

RUNTIME DAYS @ 12.5kts

78.70

-

-

(ADD 3  DAYS)

RUNTIME DAYS @ 13kts

75.67

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

(ADD 4  DAYS)

14 KNOTS AVE INC

70.26

-

-

-

AT 15 KNOTS AVE

65.58

 -

-

-

AT 16 KNOTS AVE

61.48

 

 

 

 

Keira Knightly portrays Elizabeth Swann in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean

 

Elizabeth Swann is played by Keira Knightly in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean.

 

 

 

ELIZABETH SWANN A - Z

 


150th anniversary, Jules Verne: World Hydrogen Challenge 2024

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea - Prediction of blue growth importance

80 Days to Round the World - Jules Verne wager

A - Z index of media reports on PlanetSolar world circumnavigation

ABC News - Mayflower returns home beset with glitch June 18 2021

Aden - Yemen

Air Liquide - Energy Observer 14 November 2017, first hydrogen vessel around the world

Air Products - NASA hydrogen bunkering

Aljazeera - AI sea drone readies maiden transatlantic voyage 14 June 2021

AI - Z index of media reports on IBM-Promare unmanned Atlantic attempt

Acidification - Air pollution causing our oceans and seas to acidify

Active Hull - A boat that can trim attitude using moving hull parts

Agreements - Advertising and sponsorship, investments

AI News - Artificial Intelligence, IMB's Edge powered ship sets sail 18 June 2021

Ammonia - Liquid NH3 as a fuel for marine engines and fuel cells

Ancient Egyptian - Solar funerary boats, Khufu

Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne inspired zero emission proposal

Artificial Intelligence - AI, the next evolutionary stage of thinking capacity

Atlantic Ocean - Attempt on the zero emission water speed record

Auto Evolution - 19 June media report Atlantic crossing suffers glitch

Autonomy - NOC, Marine technology showcase online event 10-12 November 2020

Autonomous Docking - Future ports unloading for solar & wind powered shipping

Batteries - Lithium & Hydrogen

BBC News - Mayflower Atlantic 16 June, Sails back 19 June

Black Pearl, The - Pirate sailing ship

Bloodhound - Royal yacht built by Camper & Nicholsons in 1936

Brenton Thwaites - Henry Turner, Pirates of the Caribbean

Britannia Rules the Waves - A bygone era - Rule Britannia

Bubble Hull - A vessel that closes hatches automatically when capsized

Bunkering - Hydrogen for ports and harbours

Business Plan - Funding of the world's fastest solar powered ship

Cape Cod - USA

Cape York - Australia

Captain Grant - In Search of the Castaways

Captain Hatteras - Adventures

Captain Jack Sparrow played by Johnny Depp

Captain Nemo - Onboard AI autopilot

Carbon Credits - Emissions offsetting and trading, United Nation's Kyoto Protocols

Chris Grayling MP - Former Secretary of State for transport

Christopher Columbus - Italian explorer, Atlantic trade winds

Circumnavigation - Autonomous world solar powered proposal

Classification - Of hydrogen tankers and powered vessels

Clean Maritime Plan 2050 - UK

Cleaner Ocean Foundation Ltd - HQ in Sussex, England

Climate Change - Warming of planet earth globally

C-NET - IBM powered autonomous ship sets sail across Atlantic 15 June 2021

Colonists - Of the new world, American 13 states

COLREGS - Collision avoidance at sea regulations: Rule 1, Rule 2, Rule 3, Rule 4
                 Rule 5, Rule 6, Rule 7, Rule 8, Rule 9, Rule 10

                 Sections II & III rules 11 - 19

                 Part C Lights & Shapes, Rules 20 - 31

                 Part D - Sound and Light Signals, Rules 32-37

                 Part E - Exemptions, Rule 38

                 Part F - Convention compliance verification provisions Rules 39 - 41

                 Annex I - Positioning and technical details of lights and shapes
                 Annex II - Additional signals for fishing vessels in close proximity
                 Annex III - Technical details of sounds signal appliances
                 Annex IV - Distress signals indicating need of assistance

                 Norway, Trondheim University, Autonomous marine operations

Compliance - Carbon offsetting

Computers - Navigation and onboard AI

COP 26 - Climate change Conference of the Parties, United Nations, Glasgow, Scotland 2021

Corporation Tax - Allowable advertising expenses & return on investment

Covid-19 - An advantage for unmanned shipping to reduce virus spread

Crowdfunder - £102,940 raised for the Mayflower AI autonomous ship

Cryogenics - Super cooled liquid hydrogen fuels and vessels

Daily Mail - Mayflower coastal testing readies for Atlantic crossing 30 April 2021

Darwin -

Deep Speed - Virtually silent & hyper efficient electric rim motor jet drives from Italy

Department for Transport - UK Government Department DfT

Diving

DNV-GL - Classification and technology organization based in Norway

Drag - Hull performance curves (estimates)

Drawings - Hull, helm, sponsons, galley, space & other frames, outriggers, foils

Electrics - Wiring diagrams

Elizabeth Swann - Character in Pirates of the Caribbean played by Keira Knightly

Energy Observer - A sun and wind (hydrogen) powered catamaran designed by Nigel Irens

                        - Media A - Z, Forbes 6 July 2021

English Channel - Solar powered water speed record attempt

Espen Sandberg - Director, Pirates of the Caribbean

FCH-JU - Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking, EU consortium developers & funding

FCS Alterwasser - Zemships, hydrogen fuel cell 100 passenger river cruiser, Hamburg

Fiji -

Flag States - Top 10 countries for registration of your merchant ship or private yacht, ensigns

Floatation - Displacement that keeps a vessel buoyant, or afloat

Flowfit - Harrier Fluid Power Ltd

Flying Dutchman, The - Sailing ship

Fossil Fuels - The fuels that accelerated our technology, at the expense of warming the planet

Fudzilla - 21st Century Mayflower robotic ship decided to give America a miss June 2021

Galapagos Islands -

Geoffrey Rush - Captain Hector Barbossa

Gibraltar -

GIS - Geographic Information Systems Vs Geospatial data

Glass

Global Warming - Planet earth's temperature increase changing our climate

GNSS - Global Navigation Satellite System

Gold Standard - Carbon emission carbon reduction

Gore Verbinski - Director, Pirates of the Caribbean

GPS - Global Positioning System using satellites

Grant Shapps MP - UK Secretary of State for transport 2020/2021

Gravity

Green Deal - European Commission's Research and Innovation Directorate calls

Greenhouse Gases - The air polluting gases created by burning fossil fuels

Guardian, The - Launch of PlanetSolar 1st April 2010

Guinness Book of World Records - PlanetSolar 4th May 2012

Havyard - Norwegian Fjord's coastal cruise ship, liquid hydrogen fuel cell & battery powered

Helm - Forward cabin, seating and instrument consoles

Henry VIII - English King rebels against Rome forming Church of England

HMS Queen Elizabeth - Dreadnought class battleship launched 1913

HMS Queen Elizabeth - Nuclear powered aircraft carrier launched 2014

HMY Britannia - Royal Yacht 1953 - 1997

Horizon Europe - €100 billion research and innovation programme for 2021

Horizon Europe - UK's eligibility for funding of collaborative R&D

Hull Design

Hydraulics - Flowfit suppliers of marine grade pumps, rams and motors

Hydrodynamics

Hydrofoils - Retractable wings to reduce hull drag and heave resistance

Hydrogen Batteries - Hydrogen tanks & fuel cells combined to form an energy cartridge

Hydrogen Tanks - Elizabeth Swann's large, high capacity storage cylinders for 4,000nm range

Ian McShane - Blackbeard (Edward Teach)

IBM - Artificial Intelligence

IMO - IGC Code of Construction for Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk 

       - Interim Recommendations for Carriage of Liquefied Hydrogen in Bulk

       - Marine Environment Protection Committee, greenhouse gas reduction

Independent - AI powered Mayflower returns to England beset by glitch 18 June 2021

Indian Ocean

Innovate EDGE - Support for SMEs under the UK's R&D grant scheme

Innovate UK - Clean smart shipping, MFT maritime (demonstration) competition 2021

IOC - Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO

ITV News - July 15 2021 Mayflower ship starts journey from Plymouth to Cape Cod

Jack Davenport - Commodore James Norrington

Jakarta 

Jameson Hunter Ltd

Javier Bardem - Armando Salazar, Pirates of the Caribbean

Jerry Bruckheimer - Producer, Pirates of the Caribbean

Joachim Rønning - Director, Pirates of the Caribbean

Johnny Depp - Captain Jack Sparrow

Jules Verne - Author of Around the World in Eighty Days & 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

                 - Hydrogen World Challenge (with bunker stops)

Jules Verne 2 - Hydrogen fuel cell powered riverboat at Nantes

Kawasaki - Heavy Industries, ClassNK, Suiso Frontier liquefied hydrogen tanker Approval in Principle

Kaya Scodelario - Carina Smyth, Pirates of the Caribbean

Kevin McNally - Joshamee Gibbs

King Philip's War - Wampanoag Vs Colonists

Kontiki - Thor Heyerdhal's pacific ocean raft

KTN - Knowledge Transfer Network, UK

Kulo Luna - A very special humpback whale

Kyoto Protocol - Valuing carbon pollution for offset trading between countries

                     - Annex B, Article 12

Lego - Brickipedia fandom Pirates of the Caribbean adventure sets and models

Life On Earth -

Lighthouse At The End Of the World

Liquid Hydrogen - For mass energy storage, in ships hulls

London International Shipping Week - 13-17 September 2021

MAN - Hydrogen bunkering

Maritime and Coastguard Agency - UK government departments

MARPOL - Marine Pollution & emissions reduction 74th agenda May 2019

MATS - Marine Autonomy Technology Showcase November 2020

Mayflower Autonomous Atlantic solar boat - Plymouth UK launch, Plymouth arrival USA

                                                              Comms, Design, Navigation, Partners,  

                                                              Sensors, Team, Voyage 2021, Pilgrims 1620

Moby Dick - The original anti-whaling epic by Herman Melville

MS Queen Elizabeth - Cunard cruise liner 2010 >>>

Naples - Italy

NASA - Liquid hydrogen bunkering for space shuttles

Natural Environment Research Council - NERC recruitment doctoral training partnership

Navigation

Norled - MF Hydra liquid hydrogen powered car ferry

Nus Ghani MP - Transport minister UK DfT

Nvidia - Computer graphics processors

Ocean  Crew - Mayflower set off on unmanned voyage 15 June 2021

One Planet - Doctoral training partnership, Innovate UK

Operations

Orlando Bloom - Will Turner, son of the pirate, Bootstrap Bill

Pacific Ocean

Palermo - Sicily

Panama Canal -

Paris Agreement - UN members Treaty to limit warming to 1.5 degrees centigrade

Penélope Cruz - Angelica

Pirates of the Caribbean - Disney series of 5 films starring Johnny Depp & Jeffrey Rush

Plymouth City Council - Mayflower 400th anniversary commemorations 16 June 2021

Polycarbonate - A very strong plastic used for screens and light enclosures

Port Moresby - Papua New Guinea

Port Said - Egypt

Propulsion - Electric jet thrusters versus propellers

Queen Anne's Revenge - Blackbeards pirate sailing ship

Queen Elizabeth I - Tudor, 1558 - 1603, Good Queen Bess

Queen Elizabeth II - Windsor, British sovereign 1952 >>>

Queen Elizabeth 2 - QE1 Cunard cruise liner from 1969

Queen Elizabeth - Canadian solar powered canal boat 2016

Ra - Egyptian sun god, solar boats

Renewables - Solar and wind generated electricity

Righting - The action of upturning a capsized vessel (see: self righting)

RiverVax - Water filtration cleaning machines to recover micro fibres

RMS Queen Elizabeth - Cunard Line cruise ship launched in 1938

Rob Marshal - Director, Pirates of the Caribbean

RORO - Roll On Roll Off Ferry - Solar & Wind powered concept

Sailing - Tacking, beating (to weather) up and down wind, close & beam reaches

Scout - Autonomous solar powered transatlantic project 2013

SeaKit - First Lloyds certificate for an unmanned marine systems ocean surveying drone

Sealence - Deep Speed™ electric jet drives

SeaVax - Ocean filtration machines to recover micro and macro plastics & fishing nets

Separatists and Puritans, escape to the Netherlands

Shares - Share options for private investors in a dedicated trading entity

Shipping - Carbon dioxide emission 17% world total by 2050 if left unchecked

Sir Francis Drake - Privateer

Sir Henry Morgan - Buccaneer

Sir John Hawkins - Privateer, Admiral

Sir Walter Raleigh - Privateer

Sky News - May 2021, Star Trek ship Mayflower with no captain

Solar Power - Power derived from the sun

Solar Voyager - Autonomous transatlantic boat project

Specifications - Draft

Speedwell - The second of two Pilgrim ships, this one with a leaky hull 1620

Sub-assemblies - Elizabeth Swann frames & hulls

Suez Canal -

Sustainable Navigation - Using solar and wind power to generate clean electricity

Tahati -

Tank Testing - A water basin in which model boats are tested

Taxation - Corporation deductions

Ted Elliot - Script writer, Pirates of the Caribbean

Tenerife - Canary Islands

Terry Rossio - Script writer, Pirates of the Caribbean

Test Rigs - Ford Transit hydraulics for solar and wind tracking automation 2019

Thanksgiving - US traditional harvest feast and national holiday 4th week in November

Thor Heyerdahl - Kontiki and Ra raft expeditions

Tonga -

Toyota - REXH2

Trade Winds - Using these air currents to assist in the quest for zero carbon shipping

Transatlantic solar record attempt - Scout, Solar Voyager

Trident of Neptune - Roman God of the Seas

Trident of Poseidon - Greek God of the Seas

Trim - The angle of a hull in relation to the water it is operating in

Trimarans - What is faster, a catamaran or a double outrigger?

Trinidad & Tobago - West Indies

Tûranor Planet Solar - 1st solar powered circumnavigation, Guinness Book of Records

Underwater - Below the surface of the water, submerged or immersed

UNESCO - United Nations 

US Ambassador - Woody Johnson

Vasco Da Gama - Portuguese explorer 1497 expedition

VAWTS - Vertical Axis Wind Turbines

Vector - A force with direction and magnitude

Voluntary - Verified standard carbon trading

Volvo Ocean Race 2006 - Disney's Pirate of the Caribbean yacht 2005

Voyager - Solar powered autonomous transatlantic boat attempt 2015

Wampanoag - The native Americans who helped Pilgrim Founding Fathers, farm and fish

Washington Post - 17th September 2020, Ambassador Woody Johnson Launch

Washington Post - 18th June 2021, turns around shows difficulty of experiment

Water Jets - Shaft less electric rim driven propellers

Water speed endurance records, projects and attempts

Waterborne - European Commission's consortium for ZEWT funding

Weight - Hull displacement analysis in 5083 aluminium alloy

Wind Power - Sails, HAWT & VAWT turbines

Wing Sails - Rigid collapsible sails, inspired by Walker Wingsails and Solar Sailor

X Factor - That something special

Yacht No1 - A sailing boat with hydrogen fuel cell assistance, MTU Friedrichshafen, Lake Constance

Youtube - Jackie Wyers the hairstyles of Keira Knightly

Youtube - Jackie Wyers 18th century makeup products, likes & tips

Youtube - LWYMMD, Lucy's Heart movie clips, Taylor swift compilation

Youtube - Xchuck and BlairX, Jessie Jay, Do it like a dude

Zemships FCS Alterwasse - 100 passenger hydrogen fuel cell riverboat

Zero Carbon - Shipping that produces no CO2 emissions in operation

Zero Radiation - Shipping that leaves behind no radioactive waste from atomic reactors

ZESTA - Zero Emissions Ship Technology Association, COP 26 event November 2021

ZEWT - Zero Emission Waterborne Transport, Horizon partnership 

           HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-07

           HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-08 (high power fuel cells)

           HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-13, (digital twins) 

           HORIZON-CL5-2021-D5-01-14 (ammonia)

 

 

 

HYDROGEN CIRCUMNAVIGATION 80 DAY CHALLENGE

 

 

LEG

NAUTICAL MILES

BUNKERING

WAYPOINT

SUNSHINE DAYS

-

-

-

-

-

START

-

-

-

-

-

-

FILL UP

Gibraltar

00.00

1

729

-

Tenerife, Canary Islands

1.90

2

3,154

-

Trinidad, Port of Spain

8.21

3

1,182

1

Panama City

3.00

4

970

-

Galapagos

2.45

5

3,640

-

Tahiti

9.48

6

1,423

-

Tonga, Nukualofa

3.71

7

410

-

Fiji, Suva

1.07

8

1,886

1

Port Moresby PNG

4.91

9

340

-

Thursday Island, Cape York

0.88

10

724

-

Darwin

1.89

11

1,572

-

Jakarta, Indonesia

4.09

12

1,881

-

Colombo, Sri Lanka

4.90

13

2,109

1

Aden, Yemen

5.49

14

698

-

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

1.82

15

670

-

Port Said, Egypt

1.75

16

1,111

-

Palermo, Sicily

2.89

17

170

-

Naples, Italy

0.44

18

940

FINISH

Gibraltar

2.45

-

-

-

-

-

-

23,609

(ADD 3  DAYS)

RUNTIME DAYS @ 16 knots

61.48

-

-

-

-

-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please use our A-Z INDEX to navigate this site

 

 

This website is Copyright © 2023 Cleaner Ocean Foundation Ltd and Jameson Hunter Ltd. Elizabeth Swann™ is a trademark, all rights reserved.