S/S Resolute Delivered 13 Weeks Ahead Of Schedule

The $43-million highly automated merchant c o n t a i n e r s h ip S S Resolute was delivered to F a r r e l l Lines Incorporated 13 weeks ahead of schedule by Bath Iron Works, a Congoleum Company.

The ship's condition was so excellent that it was delivered directly from sea trials, and a bot- torn painting, instead of first returning to its Bath, Maine, shipyard for corrections commonly required in new vessels.

"Resolute is as vital to the nation's freedom today as every Liberty ship of World War II," said John F. Sullivan Jr., president and chief executive officer of Bath Iron Works. "We must begin rebuilding our merchant fleet now, with modern ships like Resolute, or face the very real peril of surrendering our economic independence on the seas." For early delivery of the Resolute, the shipbuilding executive credited his company's management practices and the dedication of its workers for consistently superior performance. He noted that his shipyard recently launched the U.S. Navy guided missile frigate Clifton Sprague (FFG16) 19 weeks ahead of schedule (see page 64 of this issue), and that last November it delivered a similar ship 11 weeks early and $5- million below target cost.

The Resolute is the eighth in a series of Lightning-class containerships of the same basic design produced by Bath Iron Works, and the second of two constructed under an $86-million contract for Farrell Lines Incorporated, New York City. The first, the S/S Argonaut, was completed four months early in June 1979.

The S/S Resolute is 610 feet overall in length, 78 feet in beam, and will displace 26,670 long tons fully loaded at the design draft of 27 feet.

The ship can carry 1,070 twentyfoot cargo containers below and above deck, general cargo on portable platforms, and features accommodations for 12 officers and 29 crew members in fully airconditioned quarters.

Its General Electric double reduction geared steam turbine will produce 17,500 maximum continuous shaft horsepower to drive a single screw for a normal speed of 22.5 knots. (See MARITIME REPORTER/Engineering News, September 15, 1979 issue, page 12.)

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