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Lykes Orders Two More

Containerships In Japan

At Cost Of $76 Million

Lykes Bros. Steamship Company of New Orleans recently awarded contracts for the construction of two additional 2,500-TEU container- ships to be built in Japan. These vessels, costing some $38 million each, will be identical to four others to be built for Lykes by a joint ven- ture of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Mitsui Engineering and Ship- building under contracts signed in

July of this year that contained options for two additional vessels.

Lykes had been negotiating with the Harland & Wolff yard in Belfast for the two additional ships, but have announced that H&W was un- able to guarantee 1986 deliveries.

The Japanese yards—each will build three of the ships—have as- sured Lykes that all six of the die- sel-powered ships will be completed in 1986 as required by the con- tracts.

Main propulsion will be provided by a low-speed Mitsui/B&W 9L80MCE diesel engine having a maximum continuous rating of 28,800 bhp at 83 rpm. The 21-knot service speed will be attained oper- ating the engines at 25,500 bhp at 79.9 rpm.

Though these ships will be built without U.S. Government CDS and operated without ODS, they will fly the American flag and be manned with American crews. Lykes presi- dent W. James Amoss stated ear- lier that his company has reached agreement with the four seagoing unions involved for manning scales that compare favorably with those of most foreign-flag containerships operating in the transpacific trade where the six new Lykes ships will be deployed.

Rockwell Awarded Navy

Contract Worth $3.3 Million

For Maintenance Work

Rockwell International, Collins

International Service Company,

Richardson, Texas, has been awarded a $3,288,731 firm-fixed- price Navy contract for operation and maintenance of naval shore- based communications equipment and facilities. Work will be per- formed in Hawaii (60 percent),

Guam (35 percent), and Diego Gar- cia (5 percent). The Naval Regional

Contracting Center, Washington,

D.C., is the contracting activity (N00600-84-C-2101).

First Mitsui/Hatlapa

Ram Type Steering

Gear Completed

Under a licensing agreement with

Hatlapa Uetersener Maschinenfa- brik GmbH of West Germany, the first Mitsui/Hatlapa electro-hy- draulic, ram-type steering gear for commercial use was completed re- cently at the Takatori Manufactur- ing Company in Kobe, Japan, a sub- sidiary of Mitsui Engineering &

Shipbuilding. The agreement, signed in February this year, covers manufacture and marketing of these steering gears by MES.

MES has been producing Mitsui/

AEG rotary vane type steering gears under an earlier licensing agreement concluded in 1962 with Allgemeine

Elektricitats Gesellschaft (AEG-

Telefunken). Now, with the addi- tion of the Mitsui/Hatlapa gear to its product line, MSE is in a better position to meet the diversified needs of its customers.

The six first Mitsui/Hatlapa steering gears will be installed in 26,000-dwt bulk carriers that will be constructed at the MES Tamamo

Works for Sumitomo Corporation.

For further information on the

Mitsui/Hatlapa gears,

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Boston Shipbuilding Gets $5.6-Million Navy Contract

To Overhaul ADR Drydock

Boston Shipbuilding Corporation of East Boston, Mass., has been awarded a firm-fixed-price Navy contract for the overhaul of the aux- iliary floating drydock USS Water- ford (ADR-5). The Supervisor of

Shipbuilding, Conversion and Re- pair, Groton, Conn., is the contract- ing activity (N00024-84-H-0003).

ADVANCE PRODUCTION

SCHEDULES AMD LAUNCH DATE

With Pilgrim Keyless Propeller System

Late approval of propeller design and model testing will not delay vessel delivery because: 5leeve _ 1. Fitting the Sleeve —Ezzzzpj Pilgrim

Mut rf///i _

Pearlitic Iron Sleeve is delivered to shipyard months prior to propeller and bedded to tailshaft in the machine shop in just hours with Pilgrim Mut. Shafting and stern gear can now be enclosed in stern of vessel. 2. Securing 5leeve in Propeller

For complete information, contact: MAPECO

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Tel. 212-732-7863/Telex 12-6075

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