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1,000-Foot Bulk Carrier M/V Lewis Wilson Foy

Joins Bethlehem Steel's Great Lakes Fleet

Pictured at the recent christening of Bethlehem Steel's M/V Lewis Wilson Foy are, left to right: Mrs. Arthur J. Zuehlke; Mr. Zuehlke, president, Bay Shipbuilding Corp.;

Mrs. Lewis W. Foy; Mr. Foy, chairman/chief executive officer, Bethlehem Steel

Corp.; Mrs. John D. West, and Mr. West, president, The Manitowoc Company.

The newest 1,000-foot vessel on the Great Lakes, Bethlehem Steel

Corporation's M/V Lewis Wilson

Foy was recently placed in serv- ice. Designed and constructed by

Bay Shipbuilding Corp., Sturgeon

Bay, Wis. 54235, a subsidiary of

The Manitowoc Company, Inc., the Foy is the second 1,000-foot bulk carrier delivered by Bay

Shipbuilding, the first being

American Steamship Company's

M/V Belle River.

The ship was christened by

Mrs. Lewis Wilson Foy, wife of the chairman/chief executive of- ficer of Bethlehem Steel Corpo- ration, after whom the vessel was named. Mrs. F. Arnold Heller and

Mrs. Joseph W. Karaman, daugh- ters of Mr. and Mrs. Foy, acted as matrons-of-honor. Mr. Foy was principal speaker at the christen- ing, which was attended by the top officials of the participating companies, officers of the U.S.

Coast Guard, American Bureau of Shipping representatives, and other invited guests.

The Foy, whose keel was laid on October 8, 1976, and was launched on April 8, 1977, made her maiden voyage on June 8, 1978. The vessel will haul pellet- ized iron ore between the upper

Lakes ports of Taconite Harbor,

Minn., and Superior, Wis., and

Bethlehem's steel plants at Burns

Harbor, Ind., and Lackawanna,

N.Y.

The Lewis Wilson Foy is the seventh vessel in Bethlehem Steel

Corporation's Great Lakes Steam- ship Division. The vessel, which has a 105-foot width, 56-foot depth and an operating draft of 27y2 feet, has a deadweight ton- nage of 68,880 short tons. Al- though specifically intended to carry pelletized ore, it is also well suited to handle other free- flowing bulk cargoes such as coal, limestone or wheat. The vessel is fitted with self-unloading equip- ment consisting of a 114-inch- wide hold-loop belt conveyor and a 250-foot boom conveyor, all com- plete with idlers, electric-drive mechanisms of 3,150 horsepower, hoist and swing mechanism and cargo hold gates. It is capable of discharging 10,000 short tons of coal or 10,000 long tons of iron ore pellets per hour.

The propulsion machinery is located aft and consists of four 3,500-shaft-horsepower diesel en- gines and two reduction gears driving two controllable-pitch pro- pellers at approximately 120 rpm for a total of 14,000 horsepower and a speed of 16 mph. The plant is arranged so that one engine can drive each propeller shaft contin- uously at a reduced load. The sys- tem's design includes bridge con- trol, and is suitable for operation with machinery surveillance by only one person on watch in the engine room. A central control station is located in an air-condi- tioned and noise-proof control room in the engine room with necessary remote controls and monitoring and alarm devices.

Two generators of 2,500-kw, 4,160-volt, 3-phase, 60-cycle, a-c, are driven one each by the out- board propulsion engines. Either generator can furnish all power required for either the 3,150-hp unloading machinery or the bow and stern thrusters of 1,500 hp each, and the other gener- ator serves as a standby. Two ship's service diesel-driven gen- erator sets, each 600-kw, 480-volt, 3-phase, 60-cycle, a-c, are installed to furnish power for ship's serv- ices.

The crew is housed in quarters located in the deckhouse at the after end of the vessel. All rooms have private baths, and the entire crew space, including the pilot- house and galley is air-conditioned.

The hull is built of higher strength steel which has a yield point of 51,000 pounds per square inch, and the use of this steel saves about 15 percent in the weight of the hull, as compared to ordinary strength hull steel.

Gastech 78 LNG/LPG

Conference Includes

Major Paper From OPEC

The program has been an- nounced for the Gastech 78 LNG and LPG meeting which will be held in the new Monte-Carlo Con- vention Centre from November 7- 10 this year. It will be the sixth in the series.

Leading the program will be a paper of great significance from

OPEC—the Organization of the

Petroleum Exporting Countries— to be given by Abderrezak Fer- roukhi (head of the International

Economics Section) who will speak on a pricing policy for

OPEC LPG. Although OPEC's petroleum pricing activities have been very much in the public eye ever since the round of price in- creases started in 1974, which led to a quadrupling of crude oil prices, the Gastech 78 meeting will be the first public platform for the announcement of OPEC's next aim—price fixing for LPG and LNG. With LPG and LNG increasingly sought after as a re- placement for oil imports—partic- ularly in such pollution-conscious areas as Japan and the U.S.

West Coast—there is no doubt- ing the considerable significance of OPEC's new move. • The Gastech 78 meeting will also bring together a panel from most of the world's leading LPG producers—including government and industry speakers from Abu

Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait,

Qatar, Algeria and Venezuela. • Presentations and discussions from the gas producers' panel will be followed by a panel from some of the main gas marketers—

Mundogas, Bridgestone, Northern

Natural Gas, etc. • Speakers from Shell Inter- national Gas and Ocean Phoenix will survey the international base- load LNG trade for the period 1978-90. • The potential for LNG ex- ports from Australia's Northwest

Shelf will be described by Robert

J. Foster of Broken Hill Pty. • A Canadian panel, including

Petro-Canada's W. Sidjak and Mi- chael Bell of Melville Shipping, will discuss the ambitious Arctic

Pilot Project designed to open up the vast potential of the Canadian

Arctic. • The U.S.A. remains the world's largest gas consumer, and increasingly needs supplies of imported gas. The Institute of

Gas Technology's Philip J. An- derson will spell out the facts on

America's LNG trade potential, and David J. Bardin, administra- tor of the Economic Regulatory

Administration, will give Wash- ington's official view on U.S. LNG import policy. • Progressing the safety de- bates of previous Gastech meet- ings, this year's program will in- clude papers from the U.S. Coast

Guard—discussing their new rules based on the IMCO Gas Carrier

Code. Essochem, Pullman Kellogg, and the Norwegian classification society Det norske Veritas will also make presentations on safety and reliability programs. • Offshore development of gas fields will be covered from various angles, including floating LNG production facilities. Speakers from organizations active in Ger- many, France, Britain and the

U.S.A. will present the results of their latest researches into this sector of the gas industry. • In addition to the plenary sessions in the main auditorium of the new Monte-Carlo Conven- tion Centre, various technical de- velopments will be unveiled in specialist workshop sessions. • Gastech 78 will close with a panel debate on the future of the liquefied gas business by a num- ber of specialists—Alexis Pastu- hov, J.J. Cuneo of Energy Trans- portation, H. van Engelshoven,

Shell's Natural Gas coordinator, and P & O's Pat Mitchell.

The Gastech Week in Monte-

Carlo will also feature the world's largest exhibition of LNG and

LPG technology, equipment, and services. More than 120 inter- national exhibitors will occupy stands in the Monte-Carlo Con- vention Centre, Loews Monte-

Carlo Hotel, and the nearby Hall du Centenaire. Admission to the exhibition is free of charge to ac- credited industry personnel.

For fuller details of the con- ference program and registration particulars, contact the organiz- ers: Gastech 78, 2, Station Road,

Rickmansworth, Herts WD 3 1QP,

England.

Jeffboat Receives

Tank And Mooring

Barge Contracts

Jeffboat, Inc., Jeffersonville,

Ind., has announced the sale of two semi-integrated double-skin tank barges to the Parker Towing

Company of Tuscaloosa, Ala. The barges will be built to standard

Jeffboat designs, and will be de- livered in November 1978.

Jeffboat has also been awarded the contract to build a 400-foot mooring barge for the U.S. Army

Corps of Engineers. Intended for use in the Vicksburg, Miss., Dis- trict, the huge barge is actually two 200-foot barges bolted to- gether. It will be launched and transferred in its bolted state.

Sale price from public bid was $3,750,000.

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