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San Diego Shipbuilding Launches

Cummins-Powered Sightseeing

Vessel 'Maui-E-Ticket'

Artist's rendition of the sightseeing vessel Maui-E-Ticket, built by San Diego Shipbuilding & Repair, Inc. for Corporate E-Ticket, Inc.

San Diego Shipbuilding & Re- pair, Inc., located in Chula Vista,

Calif., recently launched the Maui-

E-Ticket, a unique sightseeing ves- sel destined for the coastal waters off the Island of Maui in the Hawai- ian Islands.

The Maui-E-Ticket is a 56-foot- long catamaran that carries 22 pas- sengers in each hull, comfortably seated before large polycarbonate viewing windows. Each passenger wears a personal headset to monitor a running account of the wonders passing outside the viewing com- partments.

Technically, the Maui-E-Ticket is a semisubmersible displacing 115 tons that can be ballasted low in the water for stability and better view- ing from the passenger compart- ments.

This 25-foot-wide vessel is pow- ered by three Cummins 4BT3s coupled through Borg Warner 72C direct drives to Stern Power 113E out-drives. The engines are con- trolled by Mathers Micro Com- mander electronic controls from port or starboard steering positions.

In addition to six passenger view- ing compartments in the hulls, pas- sengers can purchase refreshments in the midships lounge and bar. The evening underwater view is en- hanced by high intensity lights. To enable the pilot to show his passen- gers particularly interesting scenes, from the pilothouse he monitors for- ward port- and starboard-looking color video cameras.

The Maui-E-Ticket is expected to make eight to 10 trips a day, escort- ing tourists through the aquatic wonders in the reefs surrounding

Maui. It was conceived by Curtis

Jackson Jr., and is owned by Cor- porate E-Ticket, Inc.

San Diego Shipbuilding & Re- pair, Inc. specializes in unique pas- senger vessels of all types. Besides shallow water-viewing vessels simi- lar to the Maui-E-Ticket, it has has a contract to build a submarine for deep viewing. The yard's wide-rang- ing capabilities also include con- struction of high-speed SES vessels using sandwich panel technology.

In association with the Norwegian company Cirrus, San Diego Ship- building will be constructing a fleet of modified 50-knot, 350-passenger

Cirrus 120s for use in Hawaii and up and down the coast of southern Cali- fornia.

For free literature detailing the facilities and capabilities of San Di- ego Shipbuilding,

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Contract Awarded France

For Six Frigate Hulls

The Republic of China (Taiwan)

Navy has placed an order for six La

Fayette class frigates in France un- der a $2.3 billion contract. The

Thompson-CSF Group was awarded the prime contract to supply hull sections pre-outfitted with electronic equipment to Taiwan.

The hull sections will be built by the French Defense Ministry's Ship- building Directorate, Direction des

Constructions Navales (DCN), at their Lorient Shipyard, and then the sections will be shipped to Tai- wan for assembly and outfitting by the China shipbuilding company.

Hull section delivery will start in 1994 and the Thompson-CSF coor- dination and Lorient Shipyard tech- nical assistance in Taiwan is sched- uled for completion in 1997. France will not provide any weapons. The agreement is a cash deal with no offsets.

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