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Navy Awards $46.5-Million

Contract To General Ship For

Maintenance Of Two Frigates

General Ship Corporation president James Harvie (seated) and

William B. Latham, senior vice president of Systems Engi- neering Associates Corporation of Cherry Hill, N.J., sign a contract for a $46.5-million Navy Phased Maintenance

Program.

General Ship Corporation of Boston, Mass., was recently awarded a $46.5-million contract for a Phased Maintenance Program to be con- ducted on the Navy frigates USS Miller and

USS Valdez. General Ship is the prime con- tractor for the overhaul project, and Systems

Engineering Associates Corporation (SEA-

COR) of Cherry Hill, N.J., will be providing software support.

The Miller and Valdez, both based in New- port, R.I., are the first combatant ships to be overhauled under the relatively new Navy

Phased Maintenance Program. The contract, with options, is slated to extend over the next five years and was issued by Naval Sea Sys- tems Command in Washington, D.C.

SEACOR's responsibilities in the project in- clude planning and coordination support, scheduling and engineering/design assistance, and the writing of growth work specifications. $4-Million Navy Computer

Parts Contract To Sperry

Sperry Corporation, Sperry Univac Divi- sion, St. Paul, Minn., has been awarded a $4,085,262 unpriced delivery order under a basic ordering agreement to provide various quantities of spare parts including character code assemblies, light indicators, toggle switches, real time clocks, etc., in support of the computer system AN/UYK-7 (V) for ship- board use. The Navy Ships Parts Control Cen- ter, Mechanicsburg, Pa., is the contracting ac- tivity (N00024-80-D-7112).

Navy Awards Gould $9.9 Million Contract

Gould National Batteries, Langhorne, Pa., has been awarded a $9,992,426 firm-fixed- price contract for 18 ship sets of Guppy I MOD

C type submarine batteries with an option for one set of Guppy I MOD A and 14 sets of

Guppy I MOD C batteries. The Naval Sea Sys- tems Command, Washington, D.C., is the con- tracting activity (N00024-83-C-4035).

Construction Underway On ACL's

Five 36,000-Dwt "Leader Ships"

Construction of Atlantic Container Line's (ACL) "Leaderships" has progressed past the first major milestone, according to Otto I.M.

Porton, president, ACL-USA. Shipyards in

Sweden, the U.K., and France began building five RO/RO-containerships early this year.

Mr. Porton said the main sections of the first vessel—expected to be delivered in Feb- ruary—have been lifted from the main fabri- cation hall into the building dock at Kockums

Shipyard, Malmo, Sweden. Kockums, part of the Swedyards Corporation, is building three of the five 36,000-dwt ships. The three vessels will be delivered to ACL's Swedish sharehold- ers: Wallenius Line, Transatlantic and

Brostroms.

The remaining two vessels are also under construction. One is being built at the U.K.'s

Swan Hunter Wallsend-on-Tyne Shipyard for the Cunard Steam-Ship Company. The other will be built at the France-Dunkerque Ship- yard in Dunkirk, France, for Compagnie Gen- erale Maritime. All five vessels are scheduled to enter ACL's fleet between February and

August.

The new ships will each be powered by a single-screw B&W diesel engine of 23,800 hp. Each will have a total capacity of 2,300

TEUs and each has been designed by ACL for maximum flexibility of operation and cargo configurations.

They will be powered by single screw eco- nomical 23,800 hp Burmeister and Wain die- sel engines.

Major features include a large quarter ramp, permanent cell guides on the weather deck, capacity for 600 cars in the stern superstruc- ture, 1,140 TEUs of containers on the weath- erdeck and in cellular holds, and three decks for normal, heavy, or outsized RO/RO cargo.

In addition, these RO/RO decks will incorpo- rate hoistable car decks. The ships will be fit- ted with 150 reefer points—double the exist- ing capacity on current ACL ships.

Tracor Marine Announces Two

Executive Appointments

Joseph D. Deal Jr., president of Tracor

Marine, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has an- nounced the addition of two new members to his management staff at the Port Everglades facility. Hermann H. Haferkamp has been named general manager of the Shipyard Di- vision, and John D. Klockow is now director of administration.

Prior to joining Tracor Marine as shipyard general manager, Mr. Haferkamp served as assistant general superintendent of the Beth- lehem Steel Shipyard in Baltimore, Md. He served with Bethlehem for more than 20 years in various capacities at their ship repair facil- ities in San Francisco, Beaumont, and Spar- rows Point. In this new position, Mr. Hafer- kamp will oversee the management of all facets of the Tracor Marine full-service ship- yard for the drydocking, overhaul, repair, and maintenance of commercial and military vessels.

Mr. Klockow, in his new position as direc- tor of administration at Tracor Marine, will be responsible for contract administration and will direct the activities of the materials man- agement department, including the purchas- ing functions. Following his retirement from the U.S. Navy as a commissioned officer, Mr.

Klockow worked with J.J. Henry Company in

Portsmouth, Va., and the HBH Company as a subcontract administrator prior to joining

Tracor Marine.

In addition to the shipyard facility at Port

Everglades, Tracor Marine's Ocean Technol- ogy/Engineering Division also operates from this location, providing its marine oriented services to industry and government. Among the capabilities offered by the oceanographers, naval architects, and engineers of this divi- sion are marine design and engineering, in- cluding complete installation of underwater systems, detailed marine and hydrographic surveys, program management, and cable laying.

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