Sigmund Borgundvåg is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 naval architect of offshore vessels including platform supply ships and deep-sea tugs.

Biography

He worked as a naval architect for Ulstein Group (beginning in 1964) and then after its acquisition for Rolls-Royce

Rolls-Royce plc

Rolls-Royce Group plc is a global power systems company headquartered in the City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s second-largest maker of aircraft engines , and also has major businesses in the marine propulsion and energy sectors. Through its defence-related activities...

, where he was chief naval architect from 1970 to 2006. In 1974 he designed one of the first Norwegian offshore supply ships. He is known for the concept of UT-Design, the basis of numerous off-shore vessels of varying sub-types. He was responsible for the construction of more than 600 vessels, of which 500 used UT-Design, including the Abeille Bourbon

Abeille Bourbon

The Abeille Bourbon is a high seas emergency tow vessel , 80 metres long with a tractive power of , a crew of 12, designed by Norwegian naval architect Sigmund Borgundvaag. It was baptised by Bernadette Chirac on 13 April 2005 in the presence of its sponsor Jacques de Chateauvieux...

salvage tug.

He lives in Ulsteinvik

Ulsteinvik

is the commercial and administrative centre of the municipality of Ulstein in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The urban area of Ulsteinvik has a population of 5,251 people. As such, Ulsteinvik contains 74% of the population of the municipality of Ulstein...

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