FAB 2
Here are the Canon Foundry facts about FAB 2, all taken from Thunderbirds FAB Cross-Sections by Graham Bleathman, Carlton Books (2000) ISBN 1 84222 091 8:
Dimensions
Length: 110 feet
Beam: 30 feet
Draught: 8 feet
Overall Height: 42 feet
Displacement: 300 tons
Performance
Long-range cruising speed: 25 knots
Maximum speed: 60 knots
Range: 5,000 miles
Engines
2 gas turbines driving magneto-hydro-dynamic aquajets
Crew
From one to six
Other Information
- Lady Penelope’s private ocean-going yacht
- One of several ocean-going pleasure cruisers owned by the Creighton-Ward family
- Kept in an exclusive private marina on the south coast of England
- Was specially built for Lady Penelope by International Engineering (Jeff Tracy’s a major shareholder in the company)
- Mainly used for social functions when Lady Penelope is traveling
- Can function as a floating operations control center for International Rescue
- Has an emergency solar power electricity generator
- Has five lifeboats
- Has inflatable life rafts
- There is a garage on the lowest deck for FAB 1
- A high-compression pump removes water from FAB 1’s garage once the rear doors have closed
- The galley occupies the full width of the yacht, with the central corridor passing through the middle
- Has underside video cameras protected in a transparent cahelium-bonded dome
- Is outfitted with dual starboard torpedo tubes and a torpedo bay
- Lil has her own bedroom if she’s traveling with Penelope, just behind the torpedo bay
- Parker has a cabin next to the crew’s quarters
- Hull is made o fused titanium-alloy and double-walled
- Has a retractable sonar array
- An ergonomically simplified control console allows FAB 2 to be controlled by the central computer, allowing only a single crew member to operate her
- There is a bar in the forward lounge, which is below and in front of the bridge
- FAB 2 has its own water purification, filtration and sanitation plant (beneath the foredeck)
- Has a search light mounted atop the bridge and powerful lights which can be lowered through the keel access hatch to monitor activity beneath the yacht