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Linden Plans To Build

Three Tug/Supply Boats

Totaling $9.4 Million

Linden, Inc., Suite 201, 226

Carondelet Street, New Orleans,

La., has applied for a Title XI guarantee to aid in financing the construction of three tug/supply vessels.

Zigler Shipyards, Jennings, La., is the proposed shipbuilder for the vessels. Upon their comple- tion in 1981, the 165-foot-long, diesel-powered vessels will be em- ployed in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

If approved, the Title XI guar- antee would cover $8,295,000, or 871- percent of the vessels' $9,- 480,000 estimated actual cost. 3

The S/S Blue Ridge, 37,500-dwt product carrier, shown being hauled from

NASSCO's 1,000-foot-long building basin. The Blue Ridge is first of three Carlsbad-

Class product carriers for West Coast Shipping, subsidiary of Union Oil Company.

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NASSCO Launches The S/S Blue Ridge-

First Of Three For West Coast Shipping

National Steel and Shipbuild- ing Company (NASSCO), San

Diego, Calif., recently launched the 658-foot S S Blue' Ridge, the first of three 37,500-dwt product carriers that NASSCO is building for West Coast Shipping, a sub- sidiary of Union Oil Company of

California.

The Blue Ridge hull was con- structed in the company's flat- bottomed 1,000-foot-long building dock. Launching was accom- plished by flooding the dock and floating out the vessel. The Blue

Ridge will be berthed and out- fitted at NASSCO with delivery scheduled for April 1981. It will be used to transport oil products from Union Oil's Beaumont, Tex- as, refinery to terminals on the

Gulf and Atlantic Coasts.

The second and third product carriers for West Coast Shipping are currently under construction, and delivery is scheduled for June 1981 and August 1981, respec- tively. The vessels are a new

EDO Receives $6-Million

Sonar Contract From

A Foreign Navy

EDO Corporation, College

Point, N.Y., designer and manu- facturer of advanced electronic and specialized equipment for mil- itary, aviation, marine and indus- trial markets, has announced it has received a $6-million contract from a foreign navv for a quan- tity of EDO Model-780 series so- nars.

NASSCO design designated as the

Carlsbad Class. They are 100 feet in beam, have a 33-foot draft, and will carry 250,000 barrels of refined petroleum and petrochem- ical products from refineries to distribution centers.

The vessels will incorporate the most modern equipment available and will meet the latest safety and environmental protection standards including double bot- toms, a clean segregated ballast system, an inert gas system, a sewage treatment plant, collision avoidance radar, and a backup steering system. They will have steam turbine engines for maxi- mum fuel efficiency and conser- vation for their particular trade.

NASSCO currently has a $778- million backlog, including three

Navy destroyer tenders, a Navy cable repair ship, and eight prod- uct carriers. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Mor- rison-Knudsen Company, Inc. of

Boise, Idaho.

William R. Ryan, chairman of the board of EDO, stated that this contract is the result of an intensive worldwide marketing campaign for the company's 780- series sonars. It includes an op- tion to procure additional systems during the next two years at a price to be negotiated at the time of exercise. Work on this con- tract will be performed by the company's Government Products

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