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Southern Ship Launches Navy Tug Eufaula (YTB 800) Eufaula splashes into the water as it is side launched at Southern Shipbuilding Corp. The U.S. Navy tug Eufaula (YTB 800) was launched recently at Southern Shipbuilding Corporation's Slidell, La. shipyard. Miss Ellen Moorer, daughter of Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, chief of naval operations, sponsored the vessel. The Eufaula is named after the home town of Admiral Moorer and is the second of a four-tug contract underway at Southern Shipbuild-ing. This class of tugs was designed for the Navy by Southern Shipbuilding and the ship-yard has built 11 of the class which are now in service. Launching party for YTB 800 included, left to right: Rep. F. E. Hcbcrt of Louisiana, Miss Ellen Moorer, sponsor; Adm. T. H. Moorer, A. R. Seligman, and Rep. George W. Andrews of Alabama who delivered the launching address. The Eufaula is 109 feet long, and has a beam of 30 feet 6 inches and a draft of 13 feet 10 inches. It is a seagoing tug with diesel propul-sion developing 2,000 hp and has berthing space for 12. The most significant feature of the tug is its completely automated engine room. According to Alain R. Seligman, president of Southern Shipbuilding, this automation allows the Navy the flexibility of operating with an unmanned engine room. Dubuque To Build Excursion Vessel Dubuque Boat & Boiler Co., Iowa, was awarded a contract for the construction of a twin-screw diesel excursion vessel by the Kansas City Mis-souri River Navigation Co., Kansas City, Mo. It will have dimensions of 85 feet by 24 feet by 5 feet. The vessel will be named Border Star. Ingalls Awards Crandall Design Contract For World's Largest Floating Drydock Litton Industries has selected Crandell Dry Dock Engineers, Inc. of Cambridge, Mass., to de-sign the world's largest floating drydock. A de-sign contract has been awarded to Crandall by the LAMP Division of Ingalls Shipbuilding, division of Litton Industries, Pascagoula, Miss, for a float-ing drydock 960 feet long and 212 feet wide. The dock will be self-docking and will be used to launch new ships which will be transferred 'from shore to the drydock. It will also be used to drydock ships already afloat which can then be transferred back to shore. Farrell Lines To Purchase Five Racer-Class Vessels From United States Lines Agreement has been reached between Far-rell Lines Incorporated and United States Lines, Inc., for the purchase by Farrell Lines of five United States Lines Racer-class vessels. This was announced by James A. Farrell Jr., chairman of the board of Farrell Lines, and Dr. John J. McMullen, president of United States Lines, Inc. An application for Federal Mari-time Administration approval will be filed. These five ships will be placed into Farrell Lines United States East Coast and Gulf serv-ice to Australia and New Zealand, pending de-livery of the four C-6's recently contracted for and due to be delivered 1970-1971. The five ships?American Racer, American Rover, American Ranger, American Reliance, and American Resolute?were constructed in 1964-1965, have a design speed of 21 knots and, in addition to breakbulk and deeptank space, will have a capability of carrying 182 standard 20-foot containers. The special features of the American Racer-class vessels include flush, strengthened decks for the operation of forklift trucks, refrigerated cargo spaces with flush sills so that fork-lift trucks can operate into them from the hatch squares, triple hatches serving two holds, and air conditioning for all quarters. These ships are 13,264 deadweight tons and have an overall length of 534 feet. They were originally built for the Australian trade prior to Farrell Lines taking over the trade route in 1965. Fruit Carriers Institute U.S.-Australia Service Chester, Blackburn & Roder, Inc., has an-nounced that it has been named general agent for Maritime Fruit Carriers, which will be in-stituting a new service from the East Coast of the United States to Australia in May. Named to head this new service was William Higgins, assisted by Paul Shinners. Maritime Fruit Carriers will initially be op-erating the 20-knot vessels, Lemoncore and Tangerinecore. After servicing several ports in the United States Atlantic Coast, the ves-sels will sail from New York directly for Sydney, Australia on a 21-day run. according to the company. American Marine To Build Oil-Well Supply Boat American Marine Corp., New Orleans, La., is to build an offshore, oil-well supply boat for Levy Boat Service, Inc., Morgan City, La. The boat, designated Hull No. 1024, will be equipped with 1,700-total-bhp diesels, and will have dimensions of 176 feet by 40 feet by 15 feet. British Place Another Order For Rolls-Royce Gas Turbines To Power Type-42 Destroyers The Industrial and Marine Gas Turbine Divi-sion of Rolls-Royce at Coventry, has announced that the Ministry of Defense (navy) has placed a production order worth $9.6-million for Rolls-Royce Marine Olympus gas turbines. This follows the announcement in January of an $8.4-million order for Rolls-Royce Marine Tyne gas turbines. Both engines will provide power for the Royal Navy's Type-42 destroyers, the first of which was ordered from Vickers Shipbuilding Group recent-ly, and for further new classes. The Marine Olympus is in full production and has been ordered by five other navies. It has al-ready won over $7.2-million worth of exports. Ingalls Lays Bow-Stern Keel For 1,000-Foot Ore Carrier Participating in keel laying were, left to right: George Geiger, president of Erie Marine; W. H. Hansen of the American Bureau of Shipping; S. M. Moodie, manager of Bethlehem Steel's Great Lakes Steamship Division, and Lloyd Bergeson, executive vice-president of Ingalls. Shipway construction has been started at In-galls Shipbuilding division of Litton Industries, with the laying of the keel, of the bow-stern sec-tion of a 1,000-foot ore carrier. Two Litton shipbuilding divisions?the Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Pascagoula, Miss., and Erie Marine division of Erie, Pa.?are teaming up to produce the giant carrier for Bethlehem Steel Corporation. Litton's Marine Consultants and Designers of Cleveland, Ohio, designed the vessel which will be capable of transporting 51,500 gross tons of iron ore pellets. In Pascagoula, Ingalls is constructing the car-rier's 182-foot bow-stern section, scheduled for launching in July. When complete, the section will steam under its own power to Erie Marine where :t '??ill be assembled to an 818-foot mid-body sec-tion to form the 1,000-foot completed vessel. Advance fabrication work on the mid-body has already started at Erie. The mid-body section will be the first product of Erie Marine's new me-chanized ship-assembly plant, a technologically advanced facility built to produce large single-pur-pose vessels. The new facility will manufacture large ship cargo sections (modules) on an assembly-line basis. The manufacturing concepts of the Erie facility are similar to those which will be applied in Litton's Shipyard of the Future, a $130-million plant being built in Pascagoula for the production of entire ship systems. The ore carrier for Bethlehem Steel, scheduled for completion in 1970, will be the largest ship ever built for operations on the Great Lakes. Containership Enters N.Y.-Bermuda Service Amerind Shipping Corporation has placed a new, fully containerized ship in regular weekly service between New York and Bermuda. The MV Gwendolen Isle sailed from New York in February on her maiden voyage to Bermuda. This 240-foot-long container vessel has cellular-ized space for 86 twenty-foot dry and refrigerated containers. With a design speed of 14 knots, the MV Gwendolen Isle will provide one round trip each week between New York and Hamilton, Ber-muda. Loading berth in New York will be at Pier 13, Staten Island. Breakbulk cargo will also be received and containerized at another convenient location. The Amerind Bermuda service will also con-tinue every Friday sailings with its regular cargo vessels, loading at Pier 2, Port Authority, Brook-lyn, pending enlargement of the container-hand-ling facilities in Bermuda which cannot yet handle a complete shipload of containers. 8 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News