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European Shipbuilding (continued)

Lengthened Westerdam

Delivered By Meyer Werft

Meyer Werft of Papenburg,

West Germany, redelivered the 798- foot, 53,872-grt luxury cruise ship

Westerdam (ex-Homeric) to Hol- land America Lines, Seattle, Wash., after the vessel underwent an exten- sive conversion and lengthening.

The delivery of the Westerdam marked the successful completion of an extraordinary conversion.

Lengthened by over 130 feet, the vessel's passenger capacity in- creased by about 35 percent, from 1,332 to 1,773. The 669-foot-long

Westerdam was first cut in two and her 7,000-ton forebody was moved on rollers almost 164 feet. Due to

Meyer Werft's 600-ton-capacity crane available in its covered build- ing dock, the 131.2-foot-long new midbody section was able to be fab- ricated in just a few pre-outfitted units.

A total of 195 new passenger cab- ins as well as 66 officers' cabins and 31 crew cabins were installed. Be- sides an increase in the number of passenger and crew cabins, public space was also considerably in- creased. The existing restaurant on deck 4 now seats 868 passengers compared to 556 prior to lengthen-

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Sun Deck was equipped with two new whirlpools and a veranda res- taurant. The swimming pool can be roofed over by a magrodome.

General overhaul work was car- ried out on the propulsion machin- ery consisting of two 16,200-hp

MAN B&W Diesel main engines, which transmit the power to two propellers, providing the ship with a speed of 21 knots. Upgrades were performed on the air conditioning, garbage-handling and alarm and monitoring systems.

Furthermore, the yard is prepar- ing to lengthen the 5,723-m3 LPG carrier Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin 11 for Rupuk Sriwidjaja of Indone- sia. After conversion, the vessel, ori- ginally constructed by Meyer Werft, will have an overall length of 475 feet and a capacity of 8,700 m3. She will be delivered in July 1991.

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Blohm + Voss Busy

With Major Conversions

Hamburg, West Germany-based

Blohm + Voss, one of Europe's busiest ship-repair and conversion specialists, was recently awarded a $34.8-million contract to convert three paper carriers for Swedish owners Gorthon Lines.

The conversion of the three 14,299-ton bulk carriers into paper/ pulp carriers by Blohm + Voss will entail the removal of all her main deck equipment and the creation of a continuous weather deck. Addi- tionally, a tweendeck will be added and access to both decks will be via two side-loading entrances.

Blohm + Voss also completed the $5.8-million conversion of Hapag-

Lloyd's 37,012-grt cruise ship Euro- pa late last year. The work involved upgrade and expansion of the on- board restaurant facilities.

The West German yard also re- cently completed the $9-million up- grade of the 10,600-ton ferry Bolero- has for Fred Olsen. The project called for the addition of 88 cabins (176 berths) and the overhaul of the vessel's doors, ramps and propul- sion machinery.

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Schichau Seebeckwerft

Delivers Huge Railferry,

Performs Conversions

Bremerhaven's Schichau See- beckwerft AG,a member of the

Bremer Vulkan Group, recently completed what is reportedly the world's largest train ferry, the 622- foot Railship III, for the Railship

Group (see cover story in this issue).

The 10,000-dwt railferry adds about

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