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INC. said: "This ship is rather small compared to the rating of the propulsion unit. For that reason, the gas turbine alternative offered several important advantages as regards weight and machinery arrangement.

The order is significant in that it is GE's first

European gas turbine marine order and the first tanker order. It follows another order recently announced by GE from the Broken Hill Pro- prietary Company, Ltd., Melbourne, Australia, for heavy-duty gas turbines for two roll-on/roll- off special products carriers.

The heavy-duty gas turbine, a General Electric spokesman said, has unique capabilities in being able to readily burn combinations of liquid and gaseous fuels simultaneously. Thus, this applica- tion permitting the burning of LNG boil-off and

Bunker C affords the opportunity to shippers such as Reksten to use this capability at sea.

Delivery of the tanker is anticipated in 1974.

Paper On Planing Boat Design

Presented At Winter Meeting

Of SNAME Southeast Section

Shown above at the winter meeting in Miami, left to right, are: Frank DeGrim, vice chairman of the Southeast

Section; Jean Buhler, meetings committee chairman; John

C. Angeli, author; Robert W. Hobbs, chairman of the

Section, and Raymond Greene, admiralty attorney. "Evaluation of the Quality of Planing Pow- er Boat Designs" is the title of a paper pre- sented by John C. Angeli at the winter meet- ing of the Southeast Section of The Society of

Naval Architects and Marine Engineers at the

Coral Reef Yacht Club in Miami, Fla., on

February 18, 1971.

Mr. Angeli, a member of SNAME's Panel

H-12 on Planing Power Boats, is also a mem- ber of the Society of Automotive Engineers and the French Association Technique Mari- time et Aeronautique. He has had experience in the design of engines, automobiles, sail and power boats; and immediately after World

War II, was technical head of the committee for reorganization of the French automotive industry under the head of the Ministry of In- dustrial Production.

In his paper, Mr. Angeli proposes a yard- stick and a method of comparison of planing boat performance independent of speed and displacement, which is applicable at an early stage of a design. He suggests that the lack of such a design technique is retarding pro- gress in planing boat development.

Several members of the H-12 Panel dis- cussed Mr. Angeli's paper, including Joseph

Koelbel, Daniel Savitsky and Donald Blount.

Charles Bond also offered comments.

Robert W. Hobbs, chairman of the Section, presided over the meeting, during which nomi- nations for officers for 1971-72 were received.

The nominees were: Frank DeGrim of Jack- sonville, Fla., for chairman; Edward Teale Jr. of Clearwater, Fla., for vice chairman, and

James S. Krogen for secretary-treasurer. E.B.

Williams was nominated for a three-year term on the executive committee.

The next meeting of this section will have the theme "The Naval Architect in Court," and will present examples of legal situations which involve ship designers.

GE, Kvaerner Brug Receive

Order For Marine Propulsion

Gas Turbine For Tanker

The General Electric Company's gas turbine operations announced that its newest manufac- turing associate, Kvaerner Brug of Oslo, Nor- way, received an order for a GE-design marine propulsion gas turbine. Whitman Ridgway, dep- uty division general manager of the operations, made the announcement.

The GE propulsion unit will power a 29,000- cubic-meter combination ethylene/methane tanker to be built by Moss Shipyard of Norway for

Hilmar Reksten, Bergen. Head of a 1.4 million ton fleet, Reksten is a shipowner of rising promi- nence in the booming tanker business.

The ship will carry ethylene as primary cargo, during which it will operate on Bunker C fuel.

It will be equipped to carry methane and will be capable of burning methane boil-off or any combination of boil-off and Bunker C.

The propulsion plant is a 20,000-shp MS 5212R, regenerative, heavy-duty gas turbine, gear drive, and CP propeller. Auxiliary power will be provided by diesel generator sets.

The propulsion unit order for the LNG tanker represents the first for Kvaerner Brug, which was established as a manufacturing associate with

General Electric's gas turbine operations in Au- gust 1970. Kvaerner Brug expects to be a major participant in the gas turbine propulsion market, which has a prospect of great growth as gas tur- bines become more recognized as a competitive marine propulsion' plant.

On the Reksten project, GE will furnish the rotating parts plus some other specialized com- ponents. The balance of the machine will be fabricated and assembled by Kvaerner Brug at its plant in Oslo.

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