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Mangone-Built Offshore Vessel

Launched For Norwegian Firm

The Tender Tarpon, pictured during her launching, is tentatively scheduled for operation in the North Sea.

Mangone Shipbuilding Company in Hous- ton, Texas, recently launched the 185-foot

Tender Tarpon, an offshore vessel under con- struction for Wilhelmsen Offshore Services.

One of six vessels contracted for by the

Norwegian firm, the vessel is scheduled for completion this month. A sister ship to three vessels delivered to Wilhelmsen by Mangone since last fall, the Tender Tarpon will be pow- ered tby two GM Electro-Motive Division 16- 645-E5 turboeharged engines providing a total of 5,800 horsepower.

The Mangone-built vessel has a beam of 38 feet and a depth of 16 feet. It has 120 feet of deck space. The Tender Tarpon will cruise at 14.5 knots and has a cruising range of 10,000 miles. It has sleeping accommodations for 13, as well as accommodations for 12 addi- tional crew members below deck.

The vessel is equipped with a 48-inch-diame- ter bow thruster driven by a 300-hp GM 8V-71.

The Tender Tarpon and the two remaining vessels still under construction for Wilhelm- sen will ail be equipped with Kort nozzles.

Don Godeau, vice president and general manager of Mangone Shipbuilding, said the vessel will probably work in the North Sea, which is the original destination for all the

Wilhelmsen ships. The Tender Tarpon is al- most identical to the Tender Tuna, whose maiden voyage last December turned into a 25,000-nautical-mile trip in which the smaller vessel towed another Wilhelmsen ship, the 625-foot cargoliner Talisman, from the Panama

Canal to Sydney, Australia. 'Mr. Godeau explained that the ships for

Wilhelmsen are among a number under con- struction for foreign firm's. Mangone has al- ready built vessels for another Norwegian firm and now has contracts with a third Norwegian company. In addition, the shipbuilding com- pany is constructing vessels to work in Brazil, as well as in Indonesia.

U.S. Export-Import Bank

Aids Korean Shipyard

The U.S. Export-Import Bank and Ryun

Namkoong, president of the Korea Shipbuild- ing and Engineering Corp. (KSEC), have signed loan agreements to support a $72-mil- lion sale of U.S. equipment materials and serv- ices to expand KSEC's shipyard and repair facilities in Korea.

Eximbank's board of directors authorized a direct loan of $32.4 million to finance 45 percent of the U.S. costs and a financial guarantee of a loan of $32.4 million from Morgan Guaranty

Trust Co. of. New York, to finance another 45 percent of the costs.

The project consists of the design, construc- tion and equipping of a new shipyard and repair facility for larger merchant ships and fishing vessels on Koje-Do Island, some 25 miles southwest of Pusan where its existing facilities are located. Total cost of the project is estimated at some $102.8 million.

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