Bath Iron Works To Build $25-Million Training Simulator For U.S. Navy

Maine Congressman David F.

Emery announced recently that a contract for approximately $25 million has been awarded by the U.S. Navy to Bath Iron Works to construct a unique training simulator at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center to teach future crewmen of guided-missile frigates. The First District Congressman was the principal speaker at the launching of the guided- missile frigate Gallery (FFG-26) .

BIW will build the sophisticated training facility at the Illinois base. It will consist of major propulsion components of the FFG-7-class guided-missile frigates, 13 of which are now under contract at the Maine shipyard.

The project will be supervised for the Navy by Capt. Charles L.

Mull, USN, Supervisor of Shipbuilding at Bath.

"The simulator will be an exact duplication of the shipboard engineering environment, said John F. Sullivan Jr., president and chief executive officer at BIW.

"Trainees will feel they are aboard an actual frigate as they learn how to get underway on dry land." BIW will build major units of the simulator at the shipyard, barge them to the Illinois naval base, then assemble them in the center's new Marine Gas Turbine Propulsion System Maintenance and Operational Training Facil- ity. The Navy expects to train about 1,000 students a year in the simulator, which will include main propulsion, auxiliary machinery, command, and control stations.

The contract calls for planning to get underway immediately, construction of the units to begin in October of 1982, and the project to be completed in April of 1983. Some BIW employees will be temporarily transferred to the Great Lakes area for the project.

Maritime Reporter Magazine, page 7, Feb 1981

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