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3 floating drydocks • to 18,000 tons

IHI To Build Four 29,000-Dwt Tankers

For Esso Tankers Inc.

Contracts have been signed be- tween Esso Tankers Inc., an affili- ate of Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) and Ishikawajima-

Harima Heavy Industries Com- pany Ltd., for the construction of four 29,000-dwt tankers in Japan.

The tankers will be built at the

IHI shipyard in Aioi for delivery in 1974. The vessels will be pro- pelled by 11,500-shp engines and will be used in Esso's international tanker service as petroleum prod- uct carriers. Principal character- istics of the tankers are: length, 558 feet; breadth, 85 feet; draft, 35 feet 10 inches, with an operating speed of 16 knots.

SNAME Philadelphia

Section Hears Paper

On Tanker Unloading

The Philadelphia Section of The

Society of Naval Architects and

Marine Engineers held its month- ly technical meeting on April 16, 1971, at the Philadelphia Engi- neers Club. Approximately 65 members and guests attended the

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TEMPERATURE SERVICE • meeting to hear Larry Liddle, ma- rine engineer, research and de- velopment department, Sun Ship- building and Dry Dock Company, present his paper entitled "Experi- mental Optimization of Cargo Col- lection Configuration for Tankers."

Shown obove at the Engineers Club in Phil- adelphia, left to right: Sam Morse, ARCO;

Merville Willis, Sun Shipbuilding and Dry

Dock Co., and Larry Wade, Mathiasen

Tankers.

Merville Willis, assistant naval architect, Sun Shipbuilding and

Dry Dock Company coordinated the program. Discussers of the pa- per included Sam Morse, ARCO, and Larry Wade, chief mate with

Mathiasen Tankers.

During the design of an 80,000- dwt tanker, a study was conducted in an effort to maximize the util- ization of the main cargo pumps during cargo discharge. A 1 :10 scale model of the bottom struc- ture of the tanker provided a tech- nique for accurately duplicating the flow conditions of the ship dur- ing pumpout. The model was used in a series of experiments which determined the optimum configura- tion of cargo suctions, bulkhead valves, and structure flow holes for the ship. Measurements taken dur- ing a routine pumpout of the com- pleted ship indicate that the select- ed cargo collection configuration functions as expected.

The model tests and correspond- ing ship test indicate that it may be possible to develop analytical tech- niques for use in future efforts to improve the cargo collecting sys- tem on tankers.

Pictured above, left to right: Larry Liddle,

Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.; Walter

Neal Jr., Keystone Shipping Co., and

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