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NASSCO Delivers 'S/S Coast Range'—

Second Of Three Carlsbad Class For Union

The S/S Coast Range (shown above), a 37,500-dwt product car- rier built by National Steel and

Shipbuilding Company (NASS-

CO), San Diego, Calif., for Union

Oil Company of California, was delivered to Union Oil recently in ceremonies at the San Diego shipyard. The ship was received by Glenn O. Burk, president of

West Coast Shipping Company, which will operate the Coast

Range.

The keel for the 658-foot ves- sel was laid June 2, 1980. The vessel was launched January 10, 1981.

The S/S Coast Range, a Carls- bad Class carrier with a capacity of 300,000 barrels, is capable of transporting 10 different prod- ucts simultaneously. A cylindrical appendage-type bulbous bow im- proves vessel speed. A steam tur- bine engine provides maximum fuel efficiency and conservation.

The ship will carry products from

Union Oil's refineries in Los An- geles and San Francisco to Alas- ka, Hawaii and the U.S. West

Coast.

The S/S Coast Range is the second of three sister ships to be delivered to Union Oil this year.

NASSCO delivered the S/S Blue

Ridge on June 27, 1981 (see MR of September 15, 1981, pg. 8), and the S/S Sierra Madre is sched- uled to be delivered in December.

The vessels incorporate the most modern equipment available and will meet the latest safety and environmental protection standards, including double bot- toms, a clean segregated ballast system, an inert gas system, a sewage treatment plant, collision avoidance radar, and a backup steering system.

NASSCO currently has under contract six product carriers, two

Navy destroyer tenders and a

Navy cable repair ship. The com- pany's backlog of new construc- tion and repair work was approxi- mately $559 million at the end of August. NASSCO has been en- gaged in marine construction for more than 35 years, and is wholly owned by Morrison-Knudsen

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