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Mitsubishi Builds First Sulzer 9RND105 Diesel Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Japan, has built and tested at its Kobe Shipyard & Engine Works a 34,200-hp Mitsubishi Sulzer 9RND105 type diesel engine. The engine is' the first nine-cylinder RND105 type in the world. The engine will be installed in the 19,910-dwt containership Hakozaki Maru, ca-pable of accommodating 1,000 containers, which is Scheduled to be completed at the Kobe yard for Nippon Yusen Kaisha next month. This engine will give the 697-foot ship a service speed of 23.1 knots. In June last year the Kobe yard completed an eight-cylinder RND105 diesel engine and installed it in the containership America Maru for Mitsui O.S.K. Lines. Another unit of 8RND105 type and the second unit of 9RND-105 type, both being built at the Kobe yard, are scheduled to be completed in April and June of next year. As the RND105 engine is capable of de-veloping up to 48,000 hp with 12 cylinders, it is expected that the engine can be used as main propulsion machinery for high-speed containerships as well as mammoth tankers, which have conventionally been equipped mostly with turbine engines. The newly-completed unit will be delivered as an engine having a per-cylinder output of 3,800 hp, for a total of 34,200 hp. Designed to have a rated per-cylinder output of 4,000 hp, however, the new engine is marked 36,000 hp and 39,600 hp, representing 10 percent overload at trial operations at the shop. The 9RND105, a single-acting, 2-stroke cycle, cross-head, self-reversing, exhaust turbo-charged diesel engine, is 76 feet 3 inches long and has a height of 42 feet 4 inches. Reading & Bates To Acquire Associated Pipe Line From J. Ray McDermott The managements of J. Ray McDermott & Co., Inc., New Orleans, and Reading & Bates Offshore Drilling Company, Tulsa, have announced an agreement in principle for the acquisition by Reading & Bates of all of the stock of McDermott's wholly owned subsid-iary, Associated Pipe Line Contractors, Inc., Houston, in exchange for approximately 500,000 shares of Reading & Bates common stock. The agreement is subject to the ap-proval of the board of directors and security holders of each company. J. Ray McDermott & Co., Inc. is an inter-national organization which provides special-ized engineering and construction services for the production of oil and gas in offshore and marsh-land areas throughout the world. As-sociated Pipe Line Contractors, Inc. has been a wholly owned subsidiary of McDermott's since July, 1958. Associated, through its land, marine, hydrostatic test and double joint di-visions, is principally engaged, throughout the United States, including Alaska, in the busi-ness of building and rehabilitating, on a con-tract basis, large diameter pipelines for use in connection with the transmission of petro-leum, petroleum products, or natural gas. Reading & Bates is engaged in the business of operating contract offshore and onshore drilling rigs on a worldwide basis and in the production of oil and gas in the United States and Canada. There would be no changes in Associated personnel and one McDermott director, yet to be named, would join the Reading & Bates board according to the agreement. there's a big difference in results...too ll«> Donnvtar / maritime rceporier/ Engineering News 10,269 American Buying Power Readers Marine Engineering/Log ? - V- ? f-5,003 American Buying Power Readers MARITIME REPORTER/Engineering News has a total circulation to shore-side executives and key men (titles listed below) with the authority to give business to advertisers THOUSANDS LARGER than the entire world-wide circulation of the second publication to this same class of reader . . . TWICE the second magazine in the American market alone. The total circulation of Maritime Reporter/Engineering News is over 98% REQUESTED ... in writing ... by INDIVIDUAL READERS. These are the shoreside executives and key men we refer to above your customers and prospects. IN VESSEL OPERATING COMPANIES Directors, owners, agents, presidents, vice presidents, managers, secretaries, treas-urers, port engineers, superintendents, purchasing agents, port captains, port stewards, naval architects and engineers shoreside IN SHIPBUILDING & SHIP REPAIR COMPANIES Directors, owners, presidents, vice-presidents, secretaries, treasurers, superintendents, managers, purchasing agents, naval architects, engineers and chief draftsmen THE PROFESSIONAL MEN Naval architects, engineers and consultants shoreside MARITIME REPORTER ENGINEERING NEWS Your marine advertising is bound to get better results in Maritime Reporter/Engineering News. 107 EAST 31st STREET NEW YORK, N. Y. 10016 MUrray Hill 9-3266- 7-8-9 August 15, 1969 37