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Swiftships Completes The Streljko

For Yugoslavian Owners mm/mm

The MTU-powered Streljko, a 125-foot aluminum crew/supply boat built by Swift- ships for Brodospas of Split, Yugoslavia, for use in offshore drilling operations in the Adriatic Sea.

Swiftships, Inc. of Morgan City,

La., has announced the comple- tion of the Streljko, a 125-foot aluminum crew/supply boat. The new craft was built for and will be operated by Brodospas of Split,

Yugoslavia. The Streljko has a beam of 23 feet and a depth of 10 feet. Her draft is 5 feet (loaded), and 3 feet (light). Pow- er for the vessel is provided by twin MTU 12V 331 TC71 engines.

Auxiliary engines are three GM 71s. Speeds to 24 knots were ob- tained in sea trials. A full com- plement of electronic equipment includes Decca 110 radar, Loran

C by Texas Instruments and depth sounder by Datamarine.

The Streljko's cargo deck meas-

ASNE So. New England Section Hears

Gen'l Dynamics Paper On LNG Spheres

The quarterly meeting of the

American Society of Naval En- gineers, Southern New England

Section, was held recently in New

London, Conn. Capt. Don Kern,

USN (ret.), chairman of the Sec- tion, presided over the meeting.

The large-scale ocean transpor- tation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to meet energy needs has presented a major challenge of the decade for ship designers and builders. One of the schemes be- lation of the 800-ton spheres from aluminum plate baking, forming, edge milling, welding, testing, and insulating to final installation.

Each sphere contains 50 miles of aluminum welding. General Dy- namics has invested $100 million in the South Carolina facility to produce one sphere every two and one-half weeks.

Mr. Tovar concluded his pres- entation with a talk and slide show on the $110-million General

Dynamics Quonset Point facility for the manufacture of subma- rine hulls using sophisticated equipment.

Mr. Tovar worked as a design engineer in West Germany before becoming manager of the Davie

Shipyard in Quebec, Canada. He joined General Dynamics as man- ager of the South Carolina facil- ity, and for the past two years has been general manager of the

General Dynamics Quonset Point facility. ures 60 feet by 17 feet and sup- ports a cargo of 60 long tons. Be- low capacity is 78 long tons. Other capacities include 15,000 gallons of drill water, 1,225 gallons of potable water, plus 11,440 gallons of fuel, giving the vessel 1,800

N.M. (3V2 days) endurance. Full quarters are provided for a crew of six.

According to Calvin LeLeux, technical director of Swiftships,

Inc. and project engineer for the

Streljko, the new vessel will be used by Brodospas for offshore drilling operations in the Adriatic

Sea. Spokesmen for Brodospas said that the Streljko will be utilized immediately. ing implemented employs 120-foot aluminum spheres for LNG con- tainment. Fritz G. Tovar, general manager of the General Dynamics

Quonset Point facility, talked about the manufacture of these spheres at the General Dynamics

South Carolina facility. He also showed a film of the facility and the 936-foot LNG General Dy- namics ships, several of which have been delivered. His talk cov- ered the manufacture and instal-

Shown (left to right) at the recent ASNE Southern New England Section meeting are: Capt. Donald Kern, USN (ret.), chairman; Adm. L.V. Honsinger, USN (ret.);

J.S. Leonard, Shearwater, Inc.; Capt. Richard Goode, USCG (ret ); Fritz G. Tovar, Gen- eral Dynamics; Harry Loeser, NUSC, New London, Conn.; and Comdr. O. Porter, USN

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