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launch day at arrows Point

April 28, 1973. Here at our big yard in Maryland, the 70,000 dwt tanker Chevron Hawaii is shown a few hours before launch. She's the last of a series of 6 vessels of her class and size that we've built here.

On other ways on either side of her, thousands of tons of fabricated steel await installation on a large container ship, shown under construction on a way in the background.

Also in the background, the second, and the stern section of the third of four 120,000 dwt tankers on order here are under construction in our new 1,200 x 200 ft building basin, the largest in the United States. To follow these big tankers are five that will be more than double their size: 265,000 dwt, the largest ships ever built in this country. These nine tankers will keep the basin busy well into 1976. They are based on the ninth and tenth cost-saving "standard designs" developed since World War II by Bethlehem's Central

Technical Division (CTD), which is head- quartered here.

BETHLEHEM STEEL

SHIPBUILDING • SHIP REPAIR

OFFSHORE CONSTRUCTION

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