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Ship Docking Tug Launched By Star For Vancouver Tug's Growing Fleet FIRST OF THREE OBO SHIPS?The 71,060-dwt ore/bulk/oil carrier Eliane was de-livered recently at Hitachi Zosen's Innoshima Shipyard to her owner. Global Bulk Car-riers Inc. This 792-foot 7V4-inch vessel is the first of three sisterships ordered by Global and will be placed in Persian Gulf to Japan service. It is equipped with chemical tank-cleaning devices as well as with Butterworth. Propulsion is provided by an 18,400-hp Hitachi B&W diesel engine. It is classed by the American Bureau of Shipping. Vancouver Tug's newest member in its large fleet, the La Salle, is launched at Star. MSTS Awards Contract For Container Sea Lift To Sea-Land Service The Military Sea Transportation Service has announced the award of a new container agreement to Sea-Land Service Incorporated which will result in payment of an estimated $469-million per year be-tween Tuly 10, 1969 and Tune 30, 1971. The agreement, in effect, a con-tinuation of a previous arrange-ment, covers sealift to approxi-mately 1.6-million measurement tons per year of dry and refriger-ated cargo between the United States Pacific Coast and the Re-public of Vietnam. The contract was negotiated on the basis of an offer in response to a MSTS request for proposals No. 401, issued early this year. The new award will result in ex-pansion of the "highly effective through container service inaugur-ated in July 1967 by Sea-Land in conjunction with MSTS," MSTS Commander Vice Adm. Lawson T. Ramage said. Under the agreement cargo will be transported in containers from factories and terminals in the United States to front line troops in Vietnam without enroute re-handling. Expanded service under the agreement will provide transporta-tion capability about equal to 25 World War II cargo ships. Blue Star Line Orders Third Containership For Europe-U.S. Trade Blue Star Line has ordered a third containership from Bremen Vulkan Schiffbau, Bremen, Germ-any for trading between the Pacific Coast of North America and Eu-rope via the Panama Canal. The 16,000-dwt ship, which will carry 800 standard containers at a service speed of 21 y2 knots, follows an order for two similar vessels placed with the same shipyard in April. Delivery for the new ship is scheduled for early 1972. The latest addition to the grow-ing Vancouver Tug Boat Company Ltd. fleet was launched recently by the builders, Star Shipyard (Mer-cer's) Ltd., New Westminster, B.C., Canada. It was christened La Salle by Mrs. C. B. Beaton, wife of Vancouver's superintending engi-neer. This 71-foot 3-inch tug was de-signed specifically by Cove, Hat-field and Company Ltd. of Van-couver to operate most efficiently as a ship-docking tug as well as a close-range barge yarding tug. It has a beam of 23 feet 10 inches and a draft of 13 feet 1 inch. Propul-sion is provided by a Deutz SBA-12M-528 diesel engine developing 1,440 blip at 900 rpm. The engine drives a KaMeWa controllable-pitch propeller through a Western reduction gear, Model 180-MGV-160, with a three to one reduction. The propeller operates in a steer-ing nozzle designed by the naval architects and built at Star Ship-yard. "This ship will be as safe as the men who sail her," said Capt. J. C. F. Stewart as he spoke at the La Salle launching. Special features included in the design are: a fully automated en-gine room to give 16-hour unat-tended operation ? Kobelt single-lever pneumatic controls to oper-ate the c-p propeller are located at Auxiliary electric power is sup-plied by the main 40-kw General Motors generator set and the 30-kw General Motors standby gener-ator set. The hydraulic steering gear was supplied by Wagner and the anchor windlass by Burrard. Capt. J. C. F. Stewart, president of Vancouver Tug spoke at the launching. In his talk. Captain Stewart stressed the part safety-of-operation played in the design of the tug. He said: " a great deal has been said about safety at sea, and I want to tell you that this ship is as safe as the men who will sail her . . . We as owners recog-nize our responsibilities to the men who go down to the sea in ships as do the majority of our competitors and we try at every possible level to make our tugs safe for the work they do, and for the men who work in them, and have evolved a con-tinuing series of instruction and discussion with our masters so that this end may be achieved." PAC Appoints DePue Cargo Coordinator James E. DePue James E. DePue of Bainbridge Island has been appointed cargo coordinator, Alaska services, for Pacific Inland Navigation Com-pany, Inc., (PAC) Seattle-based tug/barge company with opera-tions in Alaska, Vietnam, and on the Columbia River. Mr. DePue's first assignment will be to coordinate PAC's shore-side operations with Arctic Marine Freighters, a joint venture trans-porting 70,000-tons of equipment and supplies from Seattle to Alas-ka's oil-rich North Slope. Mr. DePue, a graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in New York, served with the Navy as a navigator before becoming in-volved with the maritime industry in San Francisco and Seattle. He joined Sea-Land Service upon in-auguration of their service to Anchorage, Alaska, specializing in cargo handling, and also has been associated with Kimbrell Trans-portation, Inc., and Boyer Towing Company's Southeast Alaska Freight Service. Albina To Build Twin-Screw Towboat Hawaiian Tug & Barge Co., Honolulu, Hawaii, has contracted Albina Engine & Machine Works, Inc., Portland, Ore., to build a twin-screw towboat. Designated Hull No. 414, the vessel will have the following dimensions: 113 feet 8 inches by 32 feet by 16 feet 8 inches and will be equipped with 5,332-total-bhp diesels. three operating stations; the Bur-rard hydraulic ship-handling win-ches forward and aft are controlled from two stations, including re-mote disengagement of the towing winch; vented keel to assist in maneuverability when ship-dock-ing, and heavy rubber fenders throughout. Wilford Arsman, general manager of Simp-son Maxwell Company, supplier of the main engine, is shown presenting Mrs. C. B. Beaten with a launching memento. 14 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News