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Kawasaki To Build

Two High-Speed Ro/Ro 23,000-DWT Trailerships

Kawasaki Heavy Industries,

Ltd. received orders for two identical high-speed (24.0 knots) 23,000-dwt roll-on/roll-off trailer carriers from Seaspeed Ferries

Corporation of Greece and Kuwait

Investment Company S.A.K., for their joint ownership.

Measuring 694 feet 5 inches in length, 150 feet 0 inches in breadth, and 65 feet 7 inches in depth, these vessels will be the largest of their kind in the world. Each will have two sets of the 14,000-bhp Kawasaki-M.A.N. 14V52/55-type medium-speed die- sel engine. Both vessels will be constructed at Kawasaki's Sakaide

Works, with completion scheduled for early 1977.

Northern New England Section

Of ASNE Elects Officers For 1976

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Officers of the Northern New England Section of ASNE, left to right: Rudolph

Krause, councilman; Harold Neville, vice chairman; Gary Adams, chairman; Kenneth

Lanzillo, councilman, and Lt. Lynn Waite, treasurer. (Absent when picture was taken were Wadsworth Hardy, secretary, and Comdr. Leo Gies, USN, councilman.)

The American Society of Naval

Engineers' (ASNE) Northern

New England Section elected a new slate of officers for 1976 at a recent dinner meeting held at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

Officer's Club. Gary Adams was elected chairman, Harold Neville, vice chairman, Wadsworth

Hardy, secretary, and Lt. Lynn

Waite, USN, treasurer. Kenneth

Lanzillo was elected councilman for three years, Rudolph Krause, councilman for two years, and

Comdr. Leo Gies, USN, council- man for one year.

Following the dinner and the business meeting, an interesting lecture was presented to the mem- bers and guests by Capt. Thomas

L. Albee, USN, head of the Ad- vanced Technology Systems Divi- sion of the Naval Sea Systems

Command, Research and Develop- ment Directorate. Captain Albee spoke about the employment of advanced marine vehicles in the

U.S. Navy, elaborating on the "whys" and "hows" of the Navy's potential uses of hydrofoils, sur- face ships, air cushion vehicles, and small waterplane area twin hulls. Movies showing various high-speed craft in action were shown, following the main lecture and slide presentation. "f/fiST 71 M£ ABOAZD A

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