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Cuba Takes Delivery Of Third Canadian-Built Ship Smit Nymegen Corporation Holds Seminars On

Independently Fired Inert Gas Generators

The Cuban tanker 5 de Septiembre, which was delivered to its owners July 12 at the shipyard of Marine Industrie Limitee of Tracy near Sorel, Quebec. The new 10,000-ton vessel is shown sailing down the St. Lawrence River on her sea trials.

The third tanker to be built in Canada for Cuba was commis- sioned July 12 at the shipyard of

Marine Industrie Limitee of Tracy near Sorel, Quebec, following a week of successful sea trials.

In a ceremony attended by top executives of the Cuban Shipping

Line, as well as representatives of the Government of Canada and

Quebec and representatives of in- dustry, the traditional bottle of champagne was broken against the hull of the 5 De Septiembre by Mrs. Maria Teresa Rordiguez de Alzugaray, wife of the Consul

General of Cuba in Montreal.

The new tanker is of the

Marindus design originated by

Marine Industrie Limitee, and is recognized throughout the ship- ping world for its excellent per- formance.

Considerable credit for the suc- cess of Marine Industrie in for- eign markets is given to the pol- icy of the Canadian Government which provides financial assist- ance through the Ministry of In- dustry, Trade and Commerce, and the Export Development Corpo- ration.

The 5 De Septiembre will be used for the transport of petro- leum products in the Caribbean, and occasionally will visit Euro- pean ports.

Marine Industrie is presently building a series of 17,000-ton multipurpose cargo ships, as well as four 16,000-ton vessels, both of the Marindus design. The lat- ter group is for Polish Ocean

Lines.

Fact Sheet 5 De Septiembre

This 10,000-dwt Marindus-type tanker is intended for coastal service, with occasional trans-Atlantic voyages. The vessel is de- signed to satisfy Lloyd's Class + 100A-1 Oil Tanker and + L.M.C. with notation (cc) corrosion control.

The cargo space is divided into five transverse sections, each divided into three compartments by two longitudinal bulkheads, thus providing a total of 15 separate cargo tanks.

Cargo is handled by four electrically driven, self-priming, cen- trifugal deep-well type cargo pumps and associated piping systems which permit the simultaneous transport and handling of four dif- ferent products. Total capacity for pumping middle distillate is ap- proximately 950 t/hr.

The propulsion consists of a medium-speed marine diesel engine with reduction gear driving a single shaft and solid propeller.

Principal Characteristics

Length overall 470 feet

Breadth molded 60 feet

Depth molded to upper deck 29 feet

Scantling draft 23 feet

Deadweight 10,000 tons

Cargo tank capacity 14,000 cubic meters

Main engine medium-speed diesel

Power (M.C.R.) 5,000 BHP (metric)

Cruising speed at 90% M.C.R 14 knots

Cruising range 30 days

Pictured left to right: Jan Verwoerd, Smit Ovens Nijmegen, Holland; John J. Krieger,

Krieger Associates, Inc., U.S. sales agent; Harry Soesman, manager, sales depart- ment, Smit Ovens Nijmegen, and P.T. Chang, Exxon International, Florham Park,

N.J., following meeting held at Whitehall Lunch Club, New York City.

Smit Nymegen recently held a series of one-half-day seminars on independently fired inert gas generators. In addition to various shipyards, seminars were con- ducted at the Whitehall Lunch

Club in New York City, the Gal- leria Plaza in Houston, Texas, and the Hotel Bonaventure in Los An- geles, Calif.

There has been a tremendous increase of interest regarding in- erting in general since the Febru- ary IMCO recommendations were announced, and Smit used these seminars to introduce the detailed design of their family of inde- pendent generators specifically designed for OBOs, crude and product carriers.

Smit, a subsidiary of the Dutch

Group Holec, has been engaged in the manufacture of a broad line of independent gas inerting sys- tems since the late 1940s for both land and marine use, with over 200 now installed on various ves- sels, and twice that number on land. Marine applications have ranged from fish meal carriers to highly sophisticated LNG, LPG, chemical, crude and product car- riers.

A color movie was shown at the seminar which graphically de- picted the "heart" of the Smit system—the Ultramizing Burner.

This revolutionary design pro- duces inert gas of high quality, with a total absence of soot. The

Ultramizing Burner and its com- bustion chamber will produce clean, absolutely sootless gas of the proper composition within four minutes from startup. Ca- pacity turndown of the burner was also described.

Lecture material has been pre- printed and is available on request from Smit Nymegen Corporation, 1511 K Street, N.W., Washington,

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