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Re-engining Of Seatrain Ships

Discussed At New York SNAME

The topic at the recent meeting of the New York Metropolitan

Section of The Society of Naval

Architects and Marine Engineers — the annual joint get-together with The Society of Marine Port

Engineers New York -—• was the re-engining of the four Seatrain

Lines' Euroliner Class container- ships.

In each of these four ships, the original gas turbine propulsion units were replaced with two

Stork-Werkspoor nine-cylinder, medium-speed TM620 engines, each rated at 16,000 bhp when burning heavy fuel. Each engine drives a Lips controllable-pitch propeller at 90 rpm through sin- gle-reduction Lohmann and Stolt-

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The principal author was L.J.

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B.V. of Amsterdam, the Nether- lands. He was assisted in the presentation by Stork's P. van

Oirschot and P. Wieske. The three men presented an interesting and informative description of the

Seatrain conversions, including economic aspects, fuel consider- ations, testing of propeller de- signs by Lips, measurements at the Netherlands Ship Model Ba- sin, and some operating experi- ence.

Principals at recent joint meeting were (L to R): George Murphy, president of

The Society of Marine Port Engineers

New York, N.Y., Inc.; L.J. Neut, technical manager, Marine Division, Stork-Werks- poor Diesel, B.V. of Amsterdam, Hol- land, author; and Eric Lithen, chairman of the New York Metropolitan Section of SNAME.

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Section of The Society of Naval

Architects and Marine Engineers and the Washington, D.C. Sec- tion of the Marine Technology So- ciety. The paper, the National

Science Foundation Drilling Pro- grams—A Status Report, by Wil- bur G. Sherwood, Peter E. Wilk- niss and Archie McLerran, all of the National Science Foundation (NSF), provided a subject that appealed to the similar, yet also diverse, interests of both orga- nizations.

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The presentation by Mr. Sher- wood began with a brief history of the National Science Founda- tion's Deep Sea Drilling Program, which began in 1961 when the

CUSS I drilling platform under- took nine days of drilling in 3,240 feet of water off LaJolla, Calif.

The program continued on using more capable platforms and cul- minated in the use of the drill- ship Glomar Challenger, which is now obtaining deep ocean sedi- ment samples off the Southeast

Coast of the United States.

During the past 19 years, the

Deep Sea Drilling Project has added materially to our under- 48 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News