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LHAs are officially designated as "general- purpose assault ships." The highly versatile craft can carry troops, tanks, vehicles, heli- copters, landing craft, and combat supplies for amphibious operations. Each is 820 feet long and has a full-length flight deck.

Five 300-ton York air-conditioning systems were installed aboard the Midway during her four-year, $202,000,000 reconstruction job at

Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard. The restored giant can carry a crew of 4,300 men and has conventional boilers capable of 200,000 hp. The air-conditioning was provided for crew com- fort, considered an important criterion during the reconstruction.

Allis-Chalmers Demonstrates

New Container Sideloader

Foster Wheeler Corporation

Promotes Thomas Schroppe

Thomas Schroppe has been named manager of marine engineering for Foster Wheeler Cor- poration, Livingston, N.J. He started with the company in 1962 as a proposal engineer, then became supervisor of proposal engineering in 1965.

Mr. Schroppe holds a bachelor of science de- gree in marine engineering from New York

State Maritime College and is a member of

The Society of Naval Architects and Marine

Engineers.

Foster Wheeler designs, fabricates, and con- structs process plants and steam generators for chemical producers, petroleum refineries, public utilities, and shipbuilders. With general offices at Livingston, N.J. it has manufactur- ing plants at Mountaintop, Pa., and Dansville,

N.Y.; engineering headquarters at Houston,

Texas; and subsidiaries and licensees in 14 countries.

York Equipment Specified

For New Navy Amphibious

Assault Vessels And Carrier

Nine LHA ships and an aircraft carrier will have York equipment, according to J.W.

Chandler, manager, marine-military and gov- ernment sales for York Division of Borg-

Warner Corp., a leading manufacturer of air- conditioning and refrigeration equipment. The carrier is the reconstructed Midway.

The multimillion-dollar contract for the

LHA vessels was awarded to York Division by Litton Systems, Inc., Ingalls West Divi- sion, Pascagoula, Miss. The ships are being built in Pascagoula at the newly mechanized

Ingalls shipbuilding facility. York is supply- ing the equipment for the air-conditioning and for the refrigeration of ship's stores.

The air-conditioning equipment for each

LHA will consist of four 300-ton centrifugal water-chilling packages. The ship's stores re- quires 20 tons of refrigeration at minus 20 de- grees Fahrenheit. This will be obtained by three "Marinepaks" per vessel, each consisting of reciprocating compressor, condensing units and necessary coils. Deliveries will begin dur- ing the first quarter of 1971 and extend through 1974.

Similar in size and shape to a flattop, the

With its cab lowered for unobstructed visibility, the

Allis-Chalmers Lancer sideloading container handler re- tracts its mast into the deck well, preparatory to lower- ing a suspended container to the carrying surface. The toplift attachment holds the container firmly at the four upper corners by means of latches.

Allis-Chalmers demonstrated a new approach to containerized freight handling equipment— a vehicle called a sideloader that is a first in

United States port operations.

The new sideloader, capable of handling 20, 30, or 40-foot-long cargo containers, was dem- onstrated at Pier J, Berth 248, Long Beach,

Calif., for Trans-Ocean Gateway Corporation, a division of American Export Corporation of

New York. R.L. Thomas, of Allis-Chalmers

Material Handling Sales and Service of Los

Angeles, said the demonstrations show how the new container handling equipment func- tions.

The Lancer series vehicle is capable of han- dling containers weighing up to 67,200 pounds and can travel up to 28 miles an hour, accord- ing to Mr. Thomas. One operator can deposit or pick up a container in one minute or less.

Because the vehicle loads from the side, it can pick cargo up from the ground or another vehicle and deliver to storage.

Safety for containers, the vehicle, ground personnel and the operator are provided by the basic design. Mr. Thomas said that the side- loader controls the load by supporting it on the deck during transport. The sideloader lift- ing frame is also electrically interlocked to the container by corner locks on the top of the container during lifting and depositing.

One of the unique capabilities of this ma- chine, according to Mr. Thomas, is solid block stacking of containers by weight and destina- tion for high speed loading and discharging of a ship. This is in addition to the standard pattern for random access, in which the con- tainers are "ribbon stacked" in rows, two and three high, two containers wide, with a 16- foot aisle between rows.

Trans-Ocean Gateway is presently expanding its facilities at Long Beach, Calif., one of the newest container ports in the United States.

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