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TMP Retained By Carnival

Cruise Lines To Supervise

Liner Construction Project

Carnival Cruise Lines, Miami, Fla., has re- tained Technical Marine Planning (Group)

Ltd., London, England, as consulting naval architects and marine engineers to supervise the construction of a passenger cruise liner being built by Aalborg Vaerft, Denmark.

Ordered last July, the passenger cruise liner is modern in design and appearance.

The 200-meter-long (656-foot) vessel will have a capacity of 1,420 passengers in over 500 air-conditioned cabins, each with TV and private facilities. It is being built for cruise service, with emphasis on high standards for the safety, comfort and entertainment of passengers. Public areas include saloon-bar

Model of the 656-foot, 26,600-horsepower cruise liner to be built in Denmark for Carnival Cruise Lines,

Miami, Fla. lounges, three swimming pools, a discotheque, casino, and a 700-seat dining saloon. The ves- sel will be manned by a crew of 530.

The machinery design will provide bridge control of the unmanned engine rooms, and extensive automation. The propulsion plant consists of two Sulzer slow-speed diesel en- gines developing a total of 26,600 bhp, each driving a controllable-pitch propeller, giving the vessel a cruising speed of 20 knots. Two shaft generators of 2,500 kw each provide the vessel's electrical requirements at sea.

Three diesel alternator sets generate elec- trical power in port. The vessel will be equipped with a folding fin type stabilizer and a bowthruster.

Gulf Oil Foundation

Gives $2,500 Grant

To Webb Institute

Rear Adm. Charles N. Payne, president of Webb In- stitute, observes Michael D. Comens, Webb '72, naval architect with Gulf Transportation Co., present a $2,500 check to Florence Spencer, assistant for de- velopment at Webb.

Webb Institute of Naval Architecture,

Glen Cove, N.Y., recently announced receipt of a $2,500 Departmental Assistance Grant from the Gulf Oil Foundation.

College officials said that the Grant will be used for the Scholarship Program of

Webb Institute to further its education in naval architecture and marine engineering.

Other phases of Gulf's Aid to Education

Program include individual undergraduate scholarships, graduate fellowships, employee gift matching, capital grants, and various special grants.

Hapag-Lloyd Converting Three

Freighters To 546-Foot

Semicontainerships

Hapag-Lloyd's M/V Schwabenstein shown above at the Thyssen Nordseewerke GmbH, Emden, receiving a 49-foot-long midships section as part of her con- version to a semicontainership.

West Germany's Hapag-Lloyd is having three of its freighters converted into semi- containerships at the Thyssen Nordseewerke

GmbH, Emden.

The vessels, M/V Schwabenstein, M/V

Friesenstein, and M/V Holstenstein, will be cut in two near hold 4, and a new 49-foot section inserted. The conversion will length- en each ship from 497 feet to 546 feet, in- creasing its capacity from 12,790 dwt to 16,400 dwt. Each ship will have a capacity of 316 TEUs. Their service speed will be re- duced from 22.5 knots to 19 knots as a result of the conversion. 6 ZIDELL Maritime Reporter/Engineering News

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