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ANOTHER LOCKHEED DELIVERY: The Ponce (LPD-15) recently sailed from Lockheed

Shipbuilding's West Seattle shipyard, bound for the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard,

Bremerton, Wash., for commissioning. Lockheed has built seven of the large, 16,550-ton assault transports for the Navy. The ships are designed to carry 1,000 marines, their vehicles and equipment, and rush them to trouble spots to go ashore either by amphibi- ous craft loaded in a well deck inside the ship or by helicopter from an aft flight deck.

The ships are 570 feet long, 84 feet in beam, and travel at better than 20 knots. Keel for the LPD-15 was laid October 31, 1966. It was launched May 20, 1970.

Todd Contract To Convert Three APL Ships

Ups Total To Eight Conversions For Same Owner

Signing the APL contract were, left to right: E_T. Sommer, vice president, American

President Lines; Andrew E. Gibson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime

Affairs, and Robert J. Farrington, vice president, Todd Shipyards Corporation.

Todd Shipyards Corporation has been awarded a contract for the conversion of three conventional freighters into partial container- ships for American President

Lines, Ltd. (See Maritime Report- er/Engineering News issue of Ju- ly 15, 1971) These three ships— the Presidents Polk, Monroe, and

Harrison — will be converted at

Todd's yards in Seattle, Wash., and Los Angeles, Calif., at a cost of $6,746,973 per ship.

Earlier this year, APL, MarAd, and Todd entered into contracts calling for the conversion of five similar freighters into full contain- erships for the line's U.S. Atlantic,

Gulf, and Pacific/Indonesia, Ma- laysia, and Singapore service at a total cost of $32.5 million.

This latest group will have the capacity to carry 689 containers (20-foot equivalents), as well as 220,000 cubic feet of breakbulk car- go. The 564-foot-long ships are also being lengthened by the addi- tion of a 105-foot midbody.

Iu a related activity, American

President Lines has become the first subsidized operator to incor- porate the statutory changes re- quired by the Merchant Marine

Act of 1970 into its Operating Dif- ferential Subsidy Agreement.

The law calls for elimination of the recapture provision, the incor- poration of the wage index system for calculating subsidies, and the substitution of the new Capital

Construction Fund for the old

Capital and Special Reserve funds maintained by the subsidized op- erators.

However, lines holding Operat- ing Differential Subsidy Agree- ments when the law was enacted may option to continue recapture until the end of the current recap- ture period and/or to continue their present reserve funds, while accepting the other amendments.

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An artist's conception of the American President Lines freighters after being lengthened to carry containers by the addition of a 1 05-foot midbody. 24 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News