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Lykes Bros. Steamship Company

Invites Bids For 265 Seabee Barges

Artist's rendering of Lykes Seabee barges at quayside. Each barge is 97]/2 feet long and 35 feet wide and its cargo hold is approximately 1 6 feet deep. The barge hatch opening is 85 feet by 32 feet. It is double-skinned and its cargo hold forms a perfect rectangle.

Each Seabee barge unit can handle up to 40,000 bale cubic feet and up to 850 long tons of cargo. These Seabee barge units can carry products ranging from bulk to modern intermodal containers and pallet loads. An intermediate deck system allows all or a portion of the interior to be decked at various heights to provide separation and stowage in- tegrity. These same deck segments can function as vertical bulkheads when required.

Specialized Seabee barge units are also planned for liquids and other products. The

Seabee System includes the carriage of modern intermodal containers in 20-foot, 30- foot, and 40-foot lengths. Containers will be carried in and on the barge units which operate as small container vessels.

Lykes Bros. Steamship Co., Inc., has issued invitations to bid for the construction of 265 barges to service the company's three new mammoth Seabee class barge and intermodal carriers already under construction.

The bids are to be received by

Lykes in New Orleans, La., not later than 2 p.m. on February 18.

Lykes officials said they plan to select not more than three con- tractors to meet the production schedule set for construction of the barges.

The first of the 265 barges is to be delivered to the Quincy, Mass., shipyard of General Dynamics

Corp., where the Seabees are being built, on or before June 1, 1971.

A prototype barge, now under con- struction by Equitable Equipment

Company in New Orleans, will also be sent to the Quincy shipyard where both new barges will be used in testing the loading and dis- charging facilities of the vessels.

Production schedule for con- struction of the barges calls for delivery of 36 barges by Novem- ber 1 and 38 others by December 15 of this year, with five additional series of 38 barges each being de- livered by February 1, March 15,

May 1, June 15 and August 1 of 1972.

The first of the new Seabees is set for delivery in January 1972, with the other two carriers due in

April and July of next year. They will operate between Lykes' termi- nals on the Gulf, and terminal points in the United Kingdom and

Continental Europe.

The Lykes Seabees will be the largest common carriers ever built for the American merchant marine.

They are 875 feet long and 106 feet wide, have a speed of 20 knots and can transport 24,500 long tons of cargo in 1,900,000 cubic feet of cargo space, and they will have a heavy lift capacity of 2,000 tons. A

Seabee will sail from the Gulf ev- ery 10 days.

Each vessel can transport 38 ful- ly loaded barges, or 1,800 contain- ers, or vehicles on three-and-a-half miles of single laned highway on three decks that run unobstructed the length of each ship, or any combination of these cargoes, in- cluding liquids in tanks, unitized cargoes, or breakbulk cargoes.

The Seabee barges are also huge when compared with other ship- carried barges now in operation or planned for operation. Seabee barge ' units are feet long and 35 feet wide, have a bale capacity of 40,000 cubic feet and can load 850 long tons of cargo, while other barge units are 61 feet long and have 19,900 bale cubic feet of stow- age space.

Lykes' barges will fit readily in- to integrated tows on inland water- way systems both in the United

States and Europe; they are dou- ble-skinned all-welded steel con- struction, and built to the stand- ards of the American Bureau of

Shipping. Spokesmen for Lykes describe the Seabees as the most flexible ships ever built and the

Seabee barges as the most sophisti- cated cargo barges ever designed. "They had to be to meet the ultra high standards established by the Lykes organization for its new total service concept for which the

Seabees were created," said F.L.

Betz, project manager. "Container handling was a major consideration in designing the Sea- bee barge units," said Mr. Betz.

Containers of various sizes may be stowed either in the hold of the barges or on top of the hatch cov- ers, or they may be stowed aboard the Seabees in special container trays holding as many as 32 twen- ty-foot containers or 16 forty-foot containers.

Ameron Names Jackson

Corporate Vice Pres.

Ameron (with corporate offices in Monterey Park, Calif.) has named Earl E. Jackson to the newly-created corporate position of vice president-sales promotion.

Mr. Jackson will have responsibil- ity developing sales potentials in all company marketing areas. He will report to Elliott E. Brainard, senior vice president-operations staff.

For the past two years, Mr. Jack- son has been on assignment in

Washington, D..C, serving as vice president - Washington representa- tive, in charge of liaison between the company and Federal and for- eign Government agencies, as well as representing the company gen- erally throughout the Eastern Unit- ed States. In his new position,

Mr. Jackson will also continue with his Government activities, but will be based in California.

Joining the company in 1948, Mr.

Jackson has since held a number of executive positions, including vice president and division mana- ger of the company's Northern

California Division. He is a gradu- ate of the University of California

The fourth standard Freedom-

Hispania class cargo ship to be built at the Matagorda Shipyard of Astilleros Espanoles S.A. recent- ly completed sea trials conducted in the Bay of Cadiz, Spain. The 15,500-dwt Kolasin is the 161st ship to be built in the Matagorda Ship- yard. It was constructed for the

Yugoslavian firm of Compania

Prekookeanska Plovidba.

The Kolasin has an overall length of 472 feet, a beam of 67 feet 9 inches, a depth of 41 feet 9 inches and a loaded draft of 30 feet 4 inches. Propulsion is by a

Na,vai-Sulzer diesel engine devel- at Berkeley, with a B.S. degree in civil engineering, and presently holds memberships in the American

Water Works Association, the

American Society of Civil Engi- neers, and the Inter-American As- sociation of Sanitary Engineering.

Ameron is the manufacturer of a broad range of basic and finished concrete and steel products, fiber- glass-reinforced plastic pipe and tanks, PVC sheet plastic linings, and corrosion-resistant protective coatings and cements—all of which are widely-used for a variety of construction needs. Ameron main- tains manufacturing facilities both in the United States and in Canada,

Mexico, South America, Europe, and Japan. Sales and distribution are throughout the free world.

Marine Purchasing

Elects T. Wang Pres.

Theodore Wang

Marine Purchasing Corporation, an affiliate of Marine Transport

Lines, Inc. has announced the elec- tion of Theodore Wang as presi- dent. Mr. Wang has been a vice president of Marine Purchasing

Corporation since 1958 and was previously affiliated with Pan-

Atlantic Development Corporation. oping 8,000 bhp, built by Astilleros

Espanoles in its Sestao Shipyard.

This 6RD-68 type engine provided a trial speed of 17.14 knots, which is in excess of contract require- ments.

Most of the equipment used on this vessel was built at the various shipyards controlled by the Astil- leros Espanoles S.A. group. These components included the exhaust- gas boiler, deck machinery, steer- ing gear, hatch covers and the pro- peller.

This same shipyard recently de- livered a 24,000-dwt tanker, Hull

No. 156.

Fourth Freedom-Hispania Class Ship

Built By Astilleros Completes Trials

Freedom-Hispania Class ship, 15,500-dwt Kolasin, shown above, recently completed sea trials in the Bay of Cadiz. The ship was built for a Yugoslavian ship operator. 34 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News