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NEW VLCC REPAIR BERTH IN GENOA HARBOR: O.A.R.N. and CNTR Repair Yards of Genoa, Italy, are now completing a new ship repair pier for VLCC tankers. The new pier, shown above, is approximately 984 feet long and 82 feet wide. The pier will be fitted out with two 50-ton gantry cranes and will provide necessary shore services. The pier is unique, as it was constructed ashore in concrete sections and then fitted in place in deep water. The new pier will be able to accommodate three

VLCC tankers at one time. The Port Authorities are also building a new floating drydock to accommodate the VLCC tankers.

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A New Class Of Coastal Rese<

Shown at the presentation of certificates of appreciaf left to right: Dr. William S. Gaither, meeting coordir

Walter G. Neal Jr., co-authors Jeffrey Derrickson, and Dr. Anthony Inderbifzen, and Section vice chairma cussed wer of a design try's offshc the AGOR ed by the 1 presented r ducted by •the researc academic c

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NKK STANDARD DESIGN: The Spraynes, a 21,000-dwt standard design bulk carrier, has been delivered to Tenax Steamship Co., Ltd. of the U.K. by Shimizu Yard of Nippon

Kokan (NKK), Japan's only integrated shipbuilder-steelmaker-fabricator. The vessel is the second of four sister ships ordered from NKK by Tenax. The first, Saltnes, was delivered at the same yard in August 1972. Keel for the third ship was laid at Shimizu in November 1972. NKK has also received orders for two similar vessels from H.

Clarkson & Co., Ltd., also of the U.K. The first vessel, Swiftnes, was delivered in

May 1972. The second vessel, Sealnes, was launched at Shimizu in November 1972.

Construction of the vessels is based on a standard design developed by NKK's Ship- building Division. Main particulars are: length overall, 510.33 feet; length between perpendiculars, 478.01 feet; breadth molded, 75 feet; depth molded, 43.96 feet, and a draft of 32.18 feet. Her main engine is a NKK-S.E.M.T. Pielstick 18PC2-2V400, with an output of 8,860 shp at 130 rpm (attend of decelerator). The service speed is 16.3 knots.

A paper entitled "A New Class of Coastal Research Vessels," co- authored by Dr. Thomas D. Myers and Dr. Anthony L. Inderbitzen, both of the College of Marine Stud- ies, University of Delaware, and

Jeffrey K. Derrickson, of Sun Ship- building and Dry Dock Company, was presented at a recent meeting of the Philadelphia Section of The

Society of Naval Architects and

Marine Engineers.

Mr. Derrickson presented the pa- per, which traces the significant de- velopments of oceanographic re- search vessels over the past 25 years and addresses the problem of finding a worthy, but economical, vessel for coastal operations. Dis- 32 Maritime Rep<