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Launching Of 254,000-DWT Esso Scotia Sets Worldwide Record For A.G. "Weser' Hydro Drive Names Hackenberger Director Of Engineering Esso Scotia, shown entering the water at "Weser", Bremen, Germany, is the largest ship to ever be launched from inclined building ways. A. G. "Weser" shipyard recent-ly set two records ? one for the world and one for Europe. The rec-ords were made with the launching of the 254,300-dwt tanker Esso Scotia. The worldwide record was for the largest vessel ever launched from an inclined building ways. The European record set was for the largest ship ever constructed in Europe. Two sisterships to the Esso Scotia will also be constructed by "Weser" in the same manner. The $17.5-million Esso Scotia has an overall length of 1,131 feet, a molded beam of 172 feet, a depth of 84 feet and a summer draft of 65 feet 3l/2 inches. Propulsive power is provided by a General Electric/ A.G. "Weser" steam turbine devel-oping 32,000 shp, which will give a trial speed of 16 knots. The 37-(Mxniet fazveten O&mwcC ctotteUttenafafeA, THE AMERICAN FORGE TIE-DOWN TURNBUCKLE for fast and safe CONTAINER LASHING In use on containerships plying the world's sea lanes ? the American Forge galvanized Tie-Down Turnbuckle is quite a traveler! Responding instantly to a few easy circular motions it goes quietly and efficiently about the job of safely securing any load aboard sea-going containerships. Engineered to meet demanding marine specs this modern Tie-Down Turnbuckle features jack-type Acme threads, 18 to 24 inch take-up, easy-maintenance grease fittings, brawny galvanized construction and a no twist swivel hook. Put this world traveler aboard your containerships and be sure ail's secure. Write or call collect. ozpe land MANUFACTURING CO. McKe751R30f'Pa man crew will be accommodated in single-occupancy cabins. Mrs. J. K. Jamieson, wife of the president of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), christened the ves-sel. A ship of this size could not be allowed to slide freely into the river because of its size and the width of the river. Hydraulic rams started the ship on its way down the building way. After traveling about 325 feet, four heavy anchors were dropped and sixteen 30-ton blocks, bound to the ship by chains, took hold and slowed the motion of the vessel. The hull as launched weighed 33,000 tons. Esso has a total of 22 large tank-ers on order in European ship-yards, including the three 254,000 tonners at "Weser." Claus Hackenberger Claus Hackenberger has been named director of engineering for Hydro Drive Corporation, Lang-don Simons Jr., president, has an-nounced. Hydro Drive is a Seattle-based firm specializing in the design and manufacture of marine propulsion systems. Mr. Hackenberger, who earned a master's degree in engineering from the Goethe University in Darmstadt, Germany, was formerly with the Tacoma Boatbuilding Company, Inc. For six years he had been general manager of that firm's Oceanographic Machinery Division Northern Line. Humble Oil Planning Construction Of Six Large Oil Tankers An announcement was made re-cently by T. J. Fuson, general man-ager of the Marine Department, Humble Oil & Refining Co., Hous-ton, Texas, that the company is planning the construction of six oil tankers, each of 250,000 dwt, for the transportation of crude oil from Alaska North Slope Reservoir to the East Coast of the United States. This project is dependent upon the success of the experimental voyage of the tanker Manhattan through the Northwest Passage this sum-mer. Gulfport Shipbuilding Lays Keel For World's Largest Oil Barge I0BAM T0WW61TMKSMHTAJ10II COM. 250,000 BARREL BARGE HULL NO. 723 -KEEL LAID APRIL 211969 ty GULFPORT SHIPBUILDING COUP Participating in Gulfport keel laying were, left to right: E. Hurts, representative, Moran Towing & Transportation Co., Inc., E.A. Ray, general superintendent, Gulfport Ship-building Corporation; C.J. Picton, vice-president, D.M. Picton, Inc.; R. Rust, hull erec-tion foreman; E.W. McCarthy, executive vice-president and E.W. Brown III, president, Gulfport Shipbuilding Corporation. Gulfport Shipbuilding Corpora-tion, Port Arthur, Texas, under contract to Moran Towing and Transportation Co., Inc., New York, N.Y., recently laid the keel for construction of what the owner termed the world's largest oil barge. With a capacity of 250,000 bar-rels of grade B petroleum products, (more than twice the capacity of the original T-2 tankers built dur-ing World War II) this barge when completed will measure 508 feet long with a beam of 89 feet 6 inches and a depth of 41 feet 3 inches. The barge is basically divided into the following sections: for-ward and after peak compartments arranged for ballast, storage, wind-lass motor room, machinery space, fuel oil storage port and starboard and required cofferdams to segre-gate forward and aft machinery spaces from cargo tanks. The towing notch will be 30 feet long on the centerline laid out to suit the tug deck plan contour with vertical walls. Provisions will be made so all cargo tanks can be filled with salt-water ballast using sea chests, car-go piping and cargo pumps. Loading and unloading will be from a central point near midships, through three manifolds port and starboard. Access to the machinery space and fore and after peaks will be through watertight hatches and vertical watertight door compan-ionways aft. The barge will be a complete in-dependent unit with its own gen-erating capacity. Three large vertical deep-well cargo pumps with a capacity of 5,000 gallons per minute each will be used in handling the cargo. The barge will be constructed in strict accordance with the rules and regulations of the United States Coast Guard and the Ameri-can Bureau of Shipping and classed as a Maltese Cross A-l Barge, Un-limited Ocean Service, Bulk Oil Carrier. 30 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News