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World's Largest Ore/Oil Carrier Launched By Nippon Kokan Kansas Firm Orders

VLCC From Holland

Koch Industries Inc., Wichita, Kan., has award- ed a contract to the Rhine-Schelde-Verolme Group for the building of a 228,600-dwt crude oil tanker.

The vessel, which has to be delivered by March 1976, will be built by the Nederlandsche Dok- en Scheepsbouw Maatschappij v.o.f., member of the R.S.V.-Group in Amsterdam.

Powered by a 32,000-shp Verolme/General Elec- tric steam turbine, the tanker's approximate meas- urement will be length, 1,031 feet; breadth, 160 feet; depth, 84 feet, and draft, 65 feet.

The vessel will be the first one that Koch In- dustries, who have about 20 vessels on term charter, will own and manage themselves.

Campbell-Built Purse Seiner

Will Carry 1,200-Ton Payload

The Conquest, newest in a series of large purse seiners built for the American high-seas tuna fleet, was launched in San Diego, 'Calif., on May 19.

The new ship, valued at approximately $2.8 million, will 'be owned by Joseph and Richard

Madruga, independent fishing operators. She will be skippered by Capt. Maurice Correia, currently in command of the smaller and older original Conquest, which the new "supersein- er" will replace.

Designed by Campbell Industries, the ves- sel -will now undergo outfitting at the com- pany's facilities on San Diego Bay.

Principal speaker for the event was Glen

Copeland, formerly president of Van Oamp

Seafood, and now consultant to that firm and its parent company, Ralston Purina. Jack G.

Allen, Campbell Industries vice president, of- ficiated as master of ceremonies for the launch- ing.

Sponsor for the christening was Mrs. Mau- rice Correia, attended by Mrs. Manuel Vargas and Mrs. Joseph DeSilva. Fr. James Rafferty of St. Agnes Catholic Church, San Diego, per- formed the blessing.

According to George Soares, president of

Camplbell Industries, the Conquest will be equipped with the company's full standard fish- ing equipment package, including a Marco seine winch and Campbell's own design anchor winch. Other major equipment includes Vilter refrigeration, a Brunvoll 200-horsepower hy- draulic bow thruster, and an anti-roll stabilizer.

The new seiner is 218 feet in length, has a 40-jfoot beam, and will carry a fish payload of approximately 1,200 tons. Her speed will be ap- proximately 17 knots.

The main propulsion engine for the Conquest will be a 3,600-hp General Motors marine die- sel, driving a 5-'blade stainless steel propeller.

Auxiliary power will be supplied by three

Caterpillar 300-kw generator sets with Kado generators.

Navigational aids and other electronic gear will include two Kelvin-Hughes long-range radars, ISperry magnetic and gyrocompasses,

Benmar ADF, an Omega navigation system, an azimuth bearing repeater, Fathometer, two single sideband transceivers, two emergency radios, a tone generator, and a PA/intercom system.

In other construction, (Campbell's San Diego

Marine Construction Corp. yard is currently building four bulbous-bowed seiners of its own design under contracts with purchasers. Three more "superseiners" are also under construc- tion at the Campbell Marine yard, along with the outfitting currently under way on the Lucky

Strike, launched in late March from the San

Diego Marine facility. Campbell is also build- ing three all-aluminum high-speed ferryboats under contract with the Golden Gate Bridge,

Highway, and Transportation District, San

Francisco.

The Docecanyon, 269,500-deadweight-ton ore/oil carrier, to be the largest vessel of her type in service, has been launched by the Tsu

Yard of Nippon Kokan (NKK), Japan's only integrated shipbuilder-steel maker-fabricator.

NKK's New York shipbuilding department said the vessel is being built for Seamar Ship- ping Corporation of Liberia, a subsidiary of

Vale Do Rio Doce Navegacao S.A. of Brazil.

Docecanyon was christened by Mrs. Raimundo

Mascarenhas, wife of the president of Cia Vale

Do Rio Doce.

The vessel is being built to a standard design for 270,000-dwt class ore/oil carriers developed by NKK's shipbuilding division. She will carry iron ore from Brazil to Japan and oil from the

Persian Gulf to Brazil, following delivery scheduled in July 1973.

Docecanyon features a new cargo tank ar- rangement which meets recommendations of the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative

Organization, and provides for five center car- go tanks and 20 wing tanks. The 25 tank total increases by eight tanks the cargo space con- ventional on vessels of this type and class, and is designed to reduce oil spillage caused by accidents.

Main particulars are 1,115.5 feet length over- all ; 1,056.4 feet length between perpendiculars; breadth molded, 180.4 feet; depth molded, 92.8 feet, and a draft of 70.2 feet. The Mitsubishi turbine main engine developing 34,000 shp at 83.5 rpm gives the 169,500-gross-ton ship a service speed of 15.5 knots.

Combustion Engineering Elects

Richard J. Hallinan Secretary

The board of directors of Combustion Engi- neering, Inc., Windsor, Conn., has elected

Richard J. Hallinan as secretary of the cor- poration. Mr. Hallinan was also appointed gen- eral counsel and will continue to direct C-E's legal and patent departments.

He was previously vice president-legal, and prior to that vice president and member of the board of directors of C-E Lummus, a Com- bustion Engineering subsidiary.

Before joining C-E, Mr. Hallinan was as- sociated with the New York City law firm of

Shearman & Sterling, and was also special as- sistant to Commissioner Thomas E. Murray of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.

Mr. Hallinan graduated from Georgetown

University, and received his LL.B degree from

Harvard Law School in 1948. •Combustion Engineering's 1972 sales were $1,179,883,000. The company provides a broad range of energy equipment, including fossil fueled and nuclear steam generating systems, petroleum and gas production processing equipment, refractories, minerals, pollution control systems, screening equipment, building products, tempered safety glass, nuclear com- ponents, and designs petroleum, chemical and petrochemical process facilities.

Hydro Products Offers

New Product Catalog

A new 24-page Product Catalog is now avail- able from Hydro Products, a Dillingham com- pany.

This new catalog describes Hydro Products' complete line of underwater television, photo- graphic, lighting and communications sys- tems ; oceanographic instrumentation and sam- pling equipment; detecting and locating de- vices ; precision depth recorders; winches and other support equipment.

For a free copy, contact Jim Hitchin, As- sistant General Manager, Hydro Products, P.O.

Box 2528, San Diego, Calif. 92112.

The huge ore/oil carrier Docecanyon, shown above, fea- tures eight more cargo tanks than conventional vessels of her type and class. She will carry iron ore from Brazil to Japan, and oil from the Persian Gulf to Brazil.

Brochure Available On

Offshore Oil Pipe Tensioners

An illustrated brochure describing the LPT series of Pipemaster Tensioners is available with- out charge from the Heavy Machinery Division of Western Gear Corporation at Everett, Wash.

The brochure outlines uses of the specialized machinery in controlling the tension of a pipeline on a lay barge in offshore oil operations. The

Pipe Tensioner, a patented and proprietary prod- uct. features the ability to adapt to the curvature of a pipeline in many diameter sizes from six inches to more than 56 inches.

For a copy of the brochure on Pipe Tensioners write to the Marketing Manager. Western Gear

Corporation, Everett, Wash. 98201.

CAPTAIN KESLER HONORED: Coast Guard Capt. Wil- liam Kesler Jr., New York Captain of the Port until early

May, was praised by the N.Y. Towboat and Harbor Car- riers Association for his ". . . pragmatic sensitivity to the problems of the towing and transportation industry in

New York Harbor . . ." The presentation of the Laudatory

Resolution was made by the association's president Wil- liam E. Cleary at a luncheon on Governors Island. Captain

Kesler has since left Governors Island for a new assign- ment in Miami, Fla., as Legal Officer on the staff of the

Commander, 7th Coast Guard District. Mr. Cleary is shown above presenting Captain Kesler with a plaque recalling his contributions to the marine transportation industry in New York Harbor. 22 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News