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NASSCO Holds Christening For

Second Ingram-Class Tanker

Christening ceremonies were held recently at National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NAS-

SCO), San Diego, Calif., for the

M/V Hunter Armistead, the sec- ond Ingram-Class tanker built for

American Tankships, Inc., a sub- sidiary of Ingram Corporation, New

Orleans.

The vessel is the latest addition to the U.S.-flag Jones Act tanker fleet and is the final vessel planned for construction in the independ- ent tanker fleet. As soon as the

Hunter Armistead goes into serv- ice, Ingram Tankships, Inc., an- other Ingram Corporation subsidi- ary, plans to offer the ship for hire to major oil companies and the

Military Sea Lift Command for transportation of crude oil and/or petroleum products.

The vessel is named for Hunter

Armistead of Nashville, Tenn., who is chairman of Ingram's In- surance Division and is a member of Ingram's board of directors. His wife, Clare, served as the ship's sponsor. Mrs. Guilford Dudley

Jr. and Mrs. William F. Earth- man Jr. of Nashville, were ma- trons of honor. Mr. Dudley, a for- mer U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, is vice chairman of the board of di- rectors of Ingram Corporation and

Mr. Earthman has just been named deputy chairman of the In- gram Group. Others participating in the ceremonies included C.

Larry French, NASSCO presi- dent; Cyrus E. Webb, Ingram

Tankships president; Adm. Har- old E. Shear, U.S. Navy (ret.),

Maritime Department, U.S. De- partment of Transportation; and

Alfred W. Lutter Jr. vice presi- dent of marketing for NASSCO.

The keel of the vessel was laid

June 10, 1982, by Fred B. Bald- win, Ingram Tankships vice-pres- ident, who struck the initial arc.

C. Larry French, president and chief operating officer, represented

NASSCO in the keel-laying cere-

Dignitaries at the christening (left to right): Eugene Armstrong, executive vice president, Indus- trial/Mining Operations, Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc.; C. Larry French, president, NASSCO;

Mrs. Jane Dudley, matron of honor; Hunter Armistead, president, Ingram Group; Clare Armi- stead, sponsor; Mrs. Dorothy Earthman, matron of honor; Cyrus E. Webb, president, Ingram

Tankships Inc.; and Adm. Harold E. Shear, (US Navy-ret.), Maritime Administrator, U.S. Mari- time Administration. mony. The Hunter Armistead was launched January 29, 1983.

The Hunter Armistead is of a new NASSCO design and is 658 feet long, 90 feet in beam, with a draft of 36 feet. It will be a U.S.- flag ship, capable of carrying up to 300,000 barrels of refined petro- leum and petrochemical products from U.S. refineries to distribution centers in this country. It will be

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Cy Webb, Ingram Tankships president, stated that the Hunter

Armistead is the type of ship the

Department of Defense has said the nation needs in case of a na- tional emergency. The military must have ships capable of enter- ing strategic ports all over the world to deliver fuel and other pe- troleum products to support mili- tary campaigns. Utilization of ships larger than the Hunter Armistead is limited by depth and width re- strictions existing in most ports and significant number of tankers of the size smaller to the Hunter

Armistead are old and outdated.

In recent years, only a few ships the size of the Hunter Armistead have been built.

NASSCO has produced an aver- age of three tankers a year over the past decade in addition to de- livering an average of one vessel a year to the U.S. Navy.

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