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Harland And Wolff To Build

Six Maritime Fruit Tankers

At Total Cost Of $330 Million

Maritime Fruit Carriers Company Limited has announced that Island Fruit Reefers Ship- ping Company Limited, its English subsidiary, has ordered, subject to fulfillment of certain financing conditions, on behalf of Maritime's wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, General Mari- time Corporation, six 333,000-deadweight-ton

Very Large Crude Carriers from Harland and

Wolff Limited, Belfast, Northern Island.

The vessels will be built at Harland and

Wolff's Belfast Works, where additional new facilities are to be constructed. Each vessel is expected to cost between $53 and $56 mil- lion, giving the total transaction a value of up to $330 million. Though not yet approved, fi- nancing for this order of tanker tonnage is in- tended to be arranged through an 80 percent

U.K. Government guaranteed mortgage and the balance by the company, probably through a lease transaction.

Delivery of the first vessel is expected in late 1975, with the other five coming during 1976 and 1977.

This supertanker order marks the third since mid-1972 by and for General Maritime Corpor- ation, involving up to 12 such vessels. On Janu- ary 8, 1973, it was announced that Maritime

Fruit Carriers had signed a letter of intent for

General Maritime with Todd Shipyards Cor- poration for the construction by Todd of three 380,000-deadweight-ton supertankers, with an option for three additional such vessels.

On June 30, 1972, it was announced that

General Maritime Corporation would time- charter three 265,000-deadweight-ton super- tankers to l>e built by Bethlehem Steel Cor- poration.

Maritime Fruit Carriers Company Limited

Engineering Breakthrough ... for crack-prevention of Diesel and Gas Heads

GM 278A

Counterbored face receives inserts

Remanufactured & "Adapted" cracked heads

GM - 268, 268A, 278, 278A, 498

Enterprise - DMQ. DMG

Cooper Bessemer - LSV, JS

Worthington - SUTC, UTC, ML

Murphy Diesel - All Models

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Chicago Pneumatic

Unconditional one-year guarantee against cracking regardless of high temperatures or overloads.

Waukesha 7042

A head within a head

GM 268A

Customers report: 'Better service than a new head.

Spencer Heads, Inc.

P.O. Box 299

Gladewater, Texas 75647

Phone (214) 845-2323 is a multinational organization, specializing in refrigerated shipping and oil transportation. It is intended that Maritime Fruit will concen- trate its future VLCC activities in its U.S. sub- sidiary, General Maritime Corporation.

Astilleros Launches Largest

Tanker Built At Sestao Yard

The 1 10,000-dwt tanker Orduna just after sliding into the water at the Sestao Shipyard of Astilleros Espanoles.

The Sestao Shipyard of Astilleros Espanoles,

S.A., recently launched the largest tanker to be built at their Biscayan yards—the 110,000-dwt

Orduna. This vessel is being constructed for

Naviera Vizcaina S.A.

The Orduna has a length overall of 906 feet 11 inches, a length between perpendiculars of 861 feet, a beam of 127 feet 11 inches, a depth of 62 feet 4 inches, a draft of 49 feet 9 inches and a cargo-tank capacity of 4,766,850 cubic feet. The ship has four center and 10 wing tanks. It was designed for the carriage of three different grades of crude oils at one time.

The main propulsion plant consists of an

AESA-Burmeister & Wain 9K84EF diesel en- gine, developing 24,750 bhp at 121 rpm. This engine was 'built at the Bilbao Works of Astil- leros Espanoles. The anticipated speed in bal- last conditions is \7l/2 knots. The machinery plant is automated sufficiently to obtain the

U.M.S. Class from Lloyd's Register of Ship- ping.

The building berth left free by the Orduna has been occupied by the construction of an 80,000-dwt bulk carrier being built for the King

Line, Ltd. On another berth, the 35,000-dwt tanker Khanaquin, being built for the Iraqi

Maritime Transport Company, is nearing the launching stage.

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MITSUi-BUiLT ORE/OIL CARRIER: The 1 83,526-dwt ore/oil carrier Arafura Maru was recently delivered to her co-owners, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines and Sawayama Steamship

Co., by Mitsui Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Ltd. As a significant feature, the vessel is designed to give better visibility from the wheelhouse located aft, although she measures 1,024 feet long. Driven by a B&W 8K98FF diesel engine with a maximum continuous output of 30,- 400 bhp at 1 03 rpm, she marked a maximum trial speed of 16.71 knots. Approximate general dimensions are 1,024 feet in overall length, 984 feet in bp length, 79 feet in depth, and a full-load draft of 59 feet. The Arafura Maru is to transport ore from Australia to Japan, and crude oil and ore from the Persian Gulf, Europe and South America to Japan. 28 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News