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Bethlehem Sparrows Point

Lays Keel For First Of

Three 120,000-Dwt Tankers

The keel for the first of three 120,000-dead- weight-ton tankers for Atlantic Richfield

Company was laid on March 1 at the Sparrows

Point shipyard of Bethlehem Steel Corpora- tion, Baltimore, Md. The tanker will be larger than any now sailing under the U.S. flag.

The vessel is scheduled for delivery in the spring of 1973. It will become the largest ship in Atlantic Richfield's 'tanker fleet.

Attending the ceremonies in Bethlehem's new 1,200-foot-long 200-faot-wide building ba- sin with William H. Collins, general manager of the yard, were the following Atlantic Rich- field representatives: Byron E. Milner, vice president, manufacturing, supply and transpor- tation ; Richard G. Dulaney, manager, trans- portation; Capt. C.M. Lynch, manager, marine transportation, and E.V. Stewart, manager, new marine construction.

The new ship is one of five tankers totaling 500,000 deadweight tons ordered by Atlantic

Richfield from Bethlehem. In addition .to the three 120,000-ton tankers, a 70,000-ton tanker,

Arco Prudhoe Bay, was delivered late last year, and a vessel of the same size is currently un- der construction for scheduled delivery this spring.

Vessels of the new 120,000-deadweight-ton class, the first ito be built at Sparrows Point that are too large for the old conventional building ways, will each consume about 23,360 tons of steel. The vessels are to be 883 feet overall and 850 feet between perpendiculars.

Their molded breadth will be 138 feet, molded depth 68 feet, and summer draft 51 feet 9 inches.

Although the tankers will be some 50,000 deadweight tons larger than the largest pre- vious ships huilt here, they will fit so com- fortably into the new building basin that two ships of this class can be under construction in the dock at the same time. Normally one vessel will have her hull completed while the stern section of a second is being built.

William H. Collins, left, general manager of Bethlehem's

Sparrows Point yard, talks with Byron E. Milner, vice president, manufacturing, supply and transportation for

Atlantic Richfield, just prior to the keel-laying.

A 70,000-deadweigbt-ton itanker is currently under construction in the ibuilding basin and its hull will be completed while the stern sec- tion of the 120,000-deadweight-ton vessel is under construction.

The sections for the new vessel will be con- structed, in ithe main, in the Sparrows Point yard's new mechanized and semi-automated panel shop, which can handle ship sections up to 200 tons.

Capacity of the ships will 'be 940,000 barrels of cargo and the vessels will have a normal sea speed of 16 knots, with a cruising range of 15,000 miles.

Bethlehem has recently announced that it has prepared designs and is ready to build ships iof a 265,000-deadweight-iton class. These, too, would be built in the Sparrows Point basin, which was constructed to accommodate the building erf vessels of more than 300,000 deadweight tons.

The 177-ton first section of the keel for a 120,000- deadweight-ton tanker for Atlantic Richfield Company is lowered into place at Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point building basin.

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