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Shell Orders 3 Large

LNG Carriers From

Two French Yards

Another order for three large liquefied natural gas carriers to

Lloyd's Register class has been placed by Shell International Ma- rine Limited. Like the previous

Shell order for three LNG ships to the Society's class, reported in late April, the new vessels will have a cargo capacity of approxi- mately 2,648,670 cubic feet each and will utilize membrane cargo tanks instead of the conventional independent type of tank. At the approximate measurements of 761 feet in length, 114 feet in breadth and 68 feet in depth, they will be about the same size as 87,000-dwt tankers, making them—along with the previous three ships — the world's largest LNG carriers with membrane tanks. Two ships will be built at Constructions Navales et Industrielles de la Mediterranee,

La Seyne, and the third at Chanti- ers De l'Atlantique, St. Nazaire.

The ships that are building at

La Seyne will have tanks based on a new design by Gaz Transport of France. Instead of adopting cor- rugated construction as in the pre- vious Shell order, the tanks will be constructed from flat panels

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TWENTY NINE BROADWAY • THE DECISIVE PEOPLE • NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10006 made of M63 steel having a high nickel content. The panel edges are to be folded inwards and edge welded so that thermally induced contraction and expansion can be accommodated by flexing of the edges about the folds, and auto- matic welding equipment is to be used wherever possible.

Each tank will, in fact, consist of two containers of identical con- struction, one inside the other to form the primary and secondary barriers, both being supported by insulation over the entire surface.

The resulting two layers of insula- tion will consist of plywood boxes filled with silicone-treated expand- ed perlite powder. Joints will be made with screws, staples and phenolic glue and the boxes are to be assembled and filled in a build- ing remote from the berth. Holes in the boxes will permit circulation of inert gas throughout the insula- tion space to prevent the perlite powder from settling and to facili- tate monitoring the space for cargo leakage.

Apart from these three ships for

Shell, Lloyd's Register class has been specified for other large LPG or LNG carriers. Of the 40 ships of both types over 10,000 gross tons under construction or on order throughout the world on Septem- ber 30, there were 18 for Lloyd's

Register class, including three LPG ships (capacity approximately 1,- 835,000 cubic feet each) and two

LPG/LNG ships (capacity ap- proximately 1,235,000 cubic feet each) to be built at La Seyne.

Lewis Named President

Of Todd Subsidiary

J.T. Gilbride, president of Todd

Shipyards Corporation, has an- nounced the appointment of Don- ald H. Lewis as president and chief executive officer of Lester Engi- neering Company, Cleveland, Ohio.

Lester Engineering, a Todd subsi- diary, manufactures die casting and plastic injection molding ma- chinery. Mr. Lewis succeeds James

D. Lightbody, who has resigned but who will continue as a director and consultant.

Mr. Lewis, a graduate of Case

Institute of Technology, has been with Lester for 11 years as a dis- trict sales manager. Prior to join- ing Lester, he was with the Pack- ard Electric Division of General

Motors Corporation for 10 years in various production capacities.

Lester has redesigned its plastic injection molding machines and is in the process of incorporating im- provements in its line of die cast- ing machines. These changes will place both lines of Lester machines in the forefront of the industry.

Navy Awards B&W $66,262,000 Contract

The Babcock & Wilcox Company has been awarded a $66,262,000 con- tract from the Atomic Energy Com- mission to manufacture nuclear com- ponents for the Navy. The work is to be performed at B&W's Naval Nu- clear Fuel Division in Lynchburg,

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