It has been stated that one of the advantages of an all electric approach to prime power generation and distribution on a frigate is that it 'frees the ship designer from the tyranny of the shaft'. While there has been considerable effort devoted to the Marine engineering system concerns in producing the All Electric Ship, there has not been a commensurate level of investigation into the ship design implications. The paper presents a series of studies using the SURFCON graphically centred preliminary computer aided ship design tool, based on the Design Building Block approach which originated in the Ship Design Research team at UCL. This tool is incorporated in the Graphics Research Corporation Ltd PARAMARINE CASD suite and thus enables graphically descriptive and naval architecturally balanced ship designs to be produced. Explorations have been undertaken, for a mono-hull frigate concept design on how an advanced electric machinery fit could be configured to provide a more effective and survivable overall ship design.
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