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British Yards Report

Record Orders For

Second Quarter Of '73

United Kingdom shipbuilding statistics issued at th-e end of July show that tonnage contracted by the yards during th« second quar- ter of the year was the highest yet recorded.

Orders secured totaled 106 mer- chant ships of 1,993,000 gross tons which, together with 64 ships of 1,293,000 gross tons in the first quarter, makes 170 merchant ships of 3,286,000 gross tons for the first six months of the year.

Ships for overseas registration accounted for 14.1 percent of the 1,000,000 compensated tonnage booked during the second quarter of this year.

Lockheed Shipbuilding

Awarded $1.5 Million

For Work On Tanker

A contract for drydocking work involving alterations and installa- tions to the USNS Passumpsic, a tanker, was awarded Lockheed

Shipbuilding and Construction Co.,

Seattle, Wash.

Amount of the fixed price con- tract awarded 'by the U.S. Navy's

Military Sealift Command, Pacific, which has its headquarters at Oak- land, Calif., is $1,496,552.

Africans Order

Three Tuna Seiners

From Tacoma Boat

Tacoma Boatbuilding Co., Inc.,

Tacoma, Wash., has been awarded an $11.5-million contract by Sene- gal, Africa, for the construction of three tuna seiners. The 170-foot boats will featu re a new design that will give the vessels increased pow- er from two engines through a single shaft.

Publication Available

On Economics Of

Big Ship Transportation

The National Academy of Engi- neering is releasing a new book on the economies of transportation due to the new, huge supers'hips coming into service throughout the world. The book "Transportation and the Prospects for Improved

Efficiency," by Harry C. Brockel of the Center for Great Lakes

Studies at the University of Wis- consin, is available through the academy's printing and publishing office, 2101 Constitution Avenue,

Washington, D.C. 20418.

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