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Central Gulf Steamship

Plans To Build Two More

LASH Ships This Year

A $27.5-million contract for an 893-foot- long LASH (Lighter Aboard Ship) vessel, with options to contract for two sister ships this year, was recently signed in Washington,

D.C., by the New Orleans, La., based Central

Gulf Steamship Corporation. (See Maritime

Reporter/Engineering News issue of July 15, 1971).

The contract was awarded to Avondale

Shipyards of New Orleans and was the third for LASH ships to go to the shipyard in a six^week period.

Central Gulf, which is operating the world's first two LASH ships under long-term charter, is expected to take delivery of the 39,000- deadweight-ton ship in July of 1974. The com- pany plans to operate the ship on a trade route between U.S. Gulf and East Coast ports and the Middle East, India and Pakistan.

Central Gulf said it will have "in the imme- diate future" a requirement for 160 LASH lighters that will be operated in conjunction with the new ship. The company owns and operates a fleet of 420 LASH lighters, all of which were built in New Orleans by Equitable

Equipment Company.

Signing the contract in the U.S. Maritime

Administration offices were Central Gulf presi- dent Erik F. Johnsen, Avondale president

Henry Zac Carter, and Andrew E. Gibson,

Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Mari- time Affairs. Attending the ceremony were

N.W. Johnsen, New York, Central Gulf vice chairman, and Jerome L. Goldman, president of Friede & Goldman, Inc., New Orleans, who designed the LASH ship.

The principal characteristics of the new ship include overall length of 893 feet, beam of 100 feet, and draft of 37 feet, with space to carry about 33,000 long tons of cargo in 89 standard LASH lighters. An average speed of 22 knots will be generated by the 32,000- horsepower single-shaft steam turbine.

Signing the Central Gulf contract were, from left to right,

Erik F. Johnsen, president of Central Gulf, A.E. Gibson,

Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Maritime Affairs, and Henry Zoc Carter, president of Avondale Shipyards.

This new ship is the 21st LASH ship or- dered since Central Gulf placed the first one in operation in November of 1969. The con- tract is the third signed under the Merchant

Marine Act of 1970.

The LASH System, which includes the ship and its cargo lighters, was designed by the New Orleans naval architectural firm of

Friede & Goldman, Inc.

Bailey Meter Co. To Supply

Centralized Control Systems

For New Seatrain Tankers

Two new Seatrain tankers will be equipped with centralized control systems manufactured and supplied by Bailey Meter Company. The 230,000-ton tankers, the first commercial ships built at the Brooklyn Navy Yard by Seatrain

Shipbuilding Corporation, are also the largest commercial vessels ever built in the United States.

The first vessel will be completed by mid-1972.

A pneumatic control system will provide com- bustion and feedwater control for two Combus- tion Engineering drum boilers producing 260,000 pounds/hour steam at 875 psig and 930°F.

Steam turbine, throttle controls, and engine room and bridge consoles that permit one-man engine room watch are included in the contract.

A subsidiary of Babcock & Wilcox, Bailey

Meter Company is a leading manufacturer of in- strumentation and control and computer systems for power plant, industrial process, and marine automation.

NEW ENGLAND SNAME VISITORS: General Electric

Company's Marine Turbine and Gear Department (MTGD) was host to the New England Section of The Society of

Naval Architects and Marine Engineers at the Section's recent spring meeting. Approximately 125 members and their wives toured the department's manufacturing facili- ties for a closer look at how GE geared marine steam propulsion equipment is made. Frederick P. Eisenbiegler, manager of marine sales for MTGD, is shown at left, describing propulsion gear made by the company to Wil- liam R. Porter, captain, USN (center), and Curtis Powell, professor of marine engineering at Massachusetts Insti- tute of Technology, who are members of the Society.

Five diesel launches fitted out for harbour repair work, including welding services.

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No. 2 Dock 433' - 9"

No. 3 Dock 271'-1"

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Honing and Polishing. 28 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News