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Gotaverken's Arendal Yard Builds

Sweden's Biggest Merchant Ship

The 227,500-dwt Brita Onstad at Gotaverken's Arendal yard. Two ships of the same size are shown in the building docks—both for non-Swedish owners.

The biggest ship in the Swedish merchant fleet, the 227,500-ton tur- bine tanker, Brita Onstad, was re- cently delivered to its owners, Re- deri AB Monacus, Kungsbacka,

Sweden. The former holder of the title was the Sea Sovereign, of 210,- 500 tons also built by Kockums, for the Salen Line.

The Brita Onstad has been built to the highest class of Det norske

Veritas, and to that society's class for unmanned engine room. Her leading particulars are: overall length, 1,090 feet; length bp, 1,050 feet; molded breadth, 149 feet sev- en inches; molded depth, 87 feet six inches; and draught on summer freeboard, 67 feet 9% inches.

The total capacity of the cargo tanks is 9,992,745 cubic feet, and the ballast water tanks have a total capacity of 985,000 cubic feet.

The tank division in the cargo space has been carried out with a view to segregation that is the pos- sibility of carrying at the same time various grades of cargo, and has resulted in an arrangement en- abling part cargoes to be loaded or discharged, while maintaining nor- mal trim and bow stress.

High-tensile steel has been used more extensively than is usual for a tanker, and about 35 percent of the steel weight has been carried out in HT steel.

The Gotaverken/Stal-Laval steam turbine of AP type develops a maximum of 32,450 shp at 86 rpm and gives the ship a speed of about 16 knots fully loaded.

Instrumentation, automatic op- eration and remote control is built- in to such an extent that it makes it possible to run with an unmanned engine room in accordance with the current requirements of Det norske Veritas.

Steam is generated in two oil- fired watertube boilers of Babcock & Wilcox type manufactured by

Gotaverken. Each boiler has a max- imum capacity of 69 tons of steam per hour.

B.C. And Singapore

Firms To Represent

Bull & Roberts, Inc.

Bull & Roberts, Inc. of Murray

Hill, N.J., have appointed two new representatives for their boiler wa- ter treatment supplies and services offered by experienced marine en- gineers.

Their Singapore representative is

Nor-Marine (Private) Ltd. in the

Maritime Building at Collyer Quay.

In British Columbia, Vantest Ser- vices, Ltd. of 555 Homer Street,

Vancouver, B.C., Can., will repre- sent Bull & Roberts.

Mersey Docks Names

Leonard H. Brueton

To spearhead a major promo- tional program, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, has appointed

Leonard H. Brueton as internation- al marketing consultant.

Mr. Brueton will be responsible for development, promotion and the sales of port services at home and abroad. He was formerly man- aging director of the transportion division of the Central Wagon

Group.

British Shipbuilder

Combats Absenteeism

With Free Lottery

In a novel move to combat ab- senteeism in their shipyards, Swan

Hunter, the leading United King- dom shipbuilders, are organizing a free lottery with weekly prizes of $240 and a quarterly bonus prize of a minicar which is fully taxed and insured.

To qualify for the $240 tax-free draw, the 15,000 shipyard workers must put in a full working week without absence for any cause other than agreed holidays. In order to qualify for the quarterly minicar prize they must work a full quar- ter without absence.

This plan is to run for a 12-month trial period and will be continued should it prove to be successful.

Foerster Named

To C.M.I. Post

Hugh H. Howard, president of

Consolidated Marine, Inc., a west coast terminal operating company, has announced the election of Ro- bert O. Foerster as vice-president.

Mr. Foerster has been general manager of the CMI terminal in

San Pedro since April, 1969. He formerly was an executive of Pitts- ton Stevedoring Co., New York, and of Grace Line in Chile and

New York.

Mr. Howard also announced that

Dieter Hegger has joined CMI as assistant manager of terminal serv- ices. Mr. Hegger has been with At- lantic Container Line of New York.

CMI is a wholly-owned subsidi- ary of American President Lines,

Pacific Far East Line, and Ameri- can Mail Line.

New TMT Roll-On/Roll-Off Containership And Car Ferry Proposed By Matzer lis 110 I0S 100 9s •O 73 70 AS AO SI SO 4S

Inboard profile of the proposed 360-foot vessel.

A combination roll-on/roll-off containership and car ferry is the subject of a recent design by Ru- dolph F. Matzer & Associates, Inc.

A proposal for TMT Trailer Ferry,

Inc., the 360-foot vessel will feature three stern ramps, a 250-hp bow thruster and the facilities for con- tainers, trailers and automobiles.

With a total displacement of 5,116 long tons, the vessel will be capable of carrying 2,576 long tons of deadweight. Fuel oil carried in the inner bottoms tanks accounts for 336 long tons of deadweight, while 86 long tons of fresh water is carried in the forepeak and after peak tanks. Approximately 5.200 shp will be required to sustain a speed of 15 knots, while operating at a maximum draft of 15 feet.

Twin 15-foot wide stern ramps, port and starboard, lead to the weather deck. This deck can ac- commodate 28 trailers or, by special deck fittings, a mixture of contain- ers or trailers. The need for a shore- side or ship-mounted container crane is eliminated by using a spe- cial mobile device to carry the con- tainer aboard the vessel. The de- vice, called Swinglift, is mounted on a trailer and can unload 40-foot containers to its side and stack them two high. By using this

Swinglift, a total of 40 containers can be stacked on the weather deck.

I n addition to these containers, eight trailers may be carried on the 53- foot wide super-structure deck.

Twenty-five 40-foot trailers and 25 automobiles can be loaded on the main deck over a 21-foot wide ramp, which also serves as a weather- tight closure in the stowed position.

Seventy-six cars are carried in the hold on two levels. Access to the car decks is by a ramp from the main deck through a sliding water- tight door.

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