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Marine Equipment Suppliers

Apply For Title XI To Build

Self-Propelled Pipelay Ship

Marine Equipment Suppliers, Inc., 601

Jefferson Street, Suite 3600, Houston, Texas, has applied for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of a self-pro- pelled, reel pipelay ship. The ship, to be named Apache, is expected to begin work in the Gulf of Mexico, and later may be employed in the North Sea.

The Apache is designed to lay steel pipe from 4 to 16 inches in diameter in pre- welded, continuous lengths from 7 to 50 miles long. It will participate principally in two different markets: laying flowlines asso- ciated with subsea completed wells and lay- ing "standard" pipelines.

The vessel will have an overall length of 389 feet and a molded breadth of 70 feet. It will be driven by twin-screws and powered by a pair of diesel engines totaling 7,200 horsepower (hp). The ship will be able to cruise at 12.5 knots and will have a range of 5,000 miles. Four 900-hp thrusters — two at the bow and two astern — will position the vessel during pipelaying and retrieval operations.

During pipelaying operations, the Apache will tie up at a coastal base where pre-welded strings of pipe are wound onto the reel and joined together. When loaded, it will sail to the designated site and unreel the pipe off the stern at speeds of 1.5 to 2 knots.

INTEROCEAN MANAGEMENT

EQUIPS

TANKER FLEET WITH

KRUPP ATLAS RADARS!

ATLAS 6500 BCA

After extensive tests and evaluations of Krupp ATLAS 16 inch radars on the U.S. flag tankers

S/S ALLEGIANCE (34,800 DWT) and S/S MARYLAND (264,000 DWT), Interocean Management Corp.,

Philadelphia, decided to install ATLAS radars on a fleet wide retrofit program. On several of their U.S. flag vessels which went into service only last year, the radar equipment originally supplied was replaced by

ATLAS radars. The ATLAS radars were supplied through Electro-Nav, Inc., New York.

Because of their proven reliability, Interocean Management Corporation selected the ATLAS 16 inch radars with Basic Collision Avoidance features, types ATLAS 6500 BCA (3 cm, X-Band) and

ATLAS 6500 S BCA (10 cm, S-Band). These radars feature: • Automatic target detection at preset ranges with Dual Guard Zones • Fast measurement of target range and bearing through electronic VRM and

Electronic Bearing Marker (EBM) • Easy plotting and fast situation assessment with reflection plotter and digital plot clock • Checking of most threatening target through compass stabilized EBM • Superb picture quality on all ranges from .3 to 72, nm through unique fully solid state transceivers for both X-Band and S-Band

For full collision avoidance capability, the ATLAS radars can be interfaced with Iotron, Sperry, or other collision avoidance systems. Full interswitching of the transmitters is available.

ATLAS 16 in. Radar Display on Bridge of

S/S Maryland

Mast with ATLAS S-Band & X-Band Antennas Interocean Management Corporation Tanker SIS Maryland

KRUPP INTERNATIONAL, INC ' WOULD LIKE MORE

JKJI KRUPP ATLAS-ELEKTRONIK DIVISION FCO/ INFORMATION PLEASE:

HMH P. O. BOX 58218, HOUSTON. TEXAS 77058 ( 7131488 0784 ATLAS 6500 BCA

NAME TITLE

COMPANY PHONE

CITY STATE ZIP

TYPE OF VESSEL(S)

The construction of the vessel will be per- formed by Todd Shipyards Corporation at its Galveston, Texas, yard. The estimated actual cost is about $34 million. Marine

Equipment Suppliers, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Santa Fe International Corpo- ration, Orange, Calif.

Strict Liability And Its Impact

On Marine Field Discussed

By SNAME No. Calif. Section

Pictured during the meeting, left to right: Peter Fisher,

Matson Navigation, Papers Committee chairman;

Earle V. Maynard, author, and Murray Montgomery,

Matson Navigation, chairman.

Earle V. Maynard presented a brief paper entitled "Strict Liability, Its Impact on the

Marine Field" at a recent dinner meeting of the Northern California Section of The So- ciety of Naval Architects and Marine En- gineers.

Mr. Maynard outlined the potential prob- lems over recent court interpretations of the concept of "strict liability." He concluded that since the marine market was a periph- eral area of interest by the insurance com- munity that extremely high premiums or unavailability for "product" type coverage may be anticipated.

Incoming officers shown, left to right: King-Tau Liu,

Herbert Engineering, Executive Committee; Roger

Kline, David J. Seymour Ltd., secretary/treasurer;

Murray Montgomery, Matson Navigation, chairman, and David Pritchard, Chevron Shipping, vice chairman.

Additionally, at this meeting, incoming officers were presented as follows: Murray

Montgomery, Matson Navigation, was named chairman; David Pritchard, Chevron Ship- ping, is vice chairman; Roger Kline, David

J. Seymour Ltd., was named secretary- treasurer; Peter Fisher, Matson Navigation, is Papers Committee chairman, and King-

Tau Liu, Herbert Engineering, was elected to the Executive Committee. 18 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News