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SAFETY AT SEA 8

MARINE ELECTRONICS EXHIBITION ... offers a unique opportunity, to buyers within the marine community, to visit the only exhibition in the world which covers so comprehensively two keen features of the industry - Marine Electronics and Safety.

This exciting event was held for the first time in 1984 and was acclaimed a resounding success, attracting shipowners, shipbuilders, marine superintendents, safety officers, elec- tronic engineers and many other senior members of the marine industry from all over the world.

Accompanying the exhibition is a two day conference discussing all maritime safety aspects of running vessels, with particular emphasis on the personnel safety and electronics.

Vessel traffic management and the hazards of crowded seaways, the future global maritime and distress safety systems, radars - looking to the future are just some of the topics to be discussed by delegates.

Supported by:

HoyaJ National Lifeboat £ 1 nautical safety institute

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ON THE OOVER

COVER PHOTOS: Clockwise from top cen- ter: Eastern Sun (Jeffboat) page 23; Pvt

Harry Fisher (Bethlehem Steel) page 48:

Regulus (National Steel & Shipbuilding) page 49: Paul Buck (Tampa Shipyards) page 40: Holiday (Aalborg Wertt) page 27; Center top: Japan Apricot (Hitachi

Zosen) page 30. Center bottom: Ameri- can Ohio (Samsung Shipbuilding) page 22.

Outstanding Oceangoing Ships

Of 1985

PAGE 22

Shipboard Computer

Survey

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U.S. Navy Ship

Procurement —Second Update—

PAGE 70

United States Cruises

Applies To MarAd For $150-Million Title XI

The Maritime Administration has received an application from United

States Cruises, Inc., a subsidiary of

Pacific Building Corporation of

Seattle, for a Title XI mortgage guarantee to aid in refinancing the reconstruction of the passenger ship

United States.

Built by Newport News Ship- building for United States Lines in 1952, the luxury liner operated in trans-Atlantic service until she was laid up in Norfolk in 1969, and sub- sequently sold to the U.S. Govern- ment. United States Cruises pur- chased the vessel from MarAd in 1978 for $5 million.

The Seattle firm has announced plans to operate the 990-foot vessel in the U.S. West Coast-Hawaii cruise trade. The company proposes to have major structural repairs per- formed, staterooms and public areas refurbished, and shops and recrea- tion facilities installed at Alabama

Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Compa- ny in Mobile. If approved, the Title

XI guarantee would cover approxi- mately $150 million, or 75 percent of the estimated cost of $200 million.

The ADDSCO contract would in- volve adding two new decks, remov- ing some existing bulkheads, adding 800 new staterooms and 300 cabins for crew members, and upgrading the ship's machinery. If MarAd ap- proves the financing, work could be- gin as early as January 1, 1986.

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