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inspector; Rick Adler, ASI proj- ect manager; R. Bloom, Mar Ad construction representative; Rob- ert Adams, APL construction rep- resentative; Buddy Roberts, ASI lead production engineer; and other officials from the shipyard and APL.

American President Lines, Ltd., based in Oakland, Calif., is a sub- sidiary of Natomas Company of

San Francisco.

Cargo Ship For Philippines

Owner Delivered By Hitachi

Present at Avondale Shipyard for recent APL keel laying were (L to R): Larry

Marshall, APL administrative assistant; Tom O'Brian, APL hull inspector; Lt. Cdr.

Don Tunstall, USCG inspector; Buddy Roberts, ASI lead production engineer; Eugene

K. Pentimonti, APL vice president-engineering; Rick Adler, ASI project manager;

Herb Lyman, APL hull inspector; P.E. Griffin, APL senior inspector; Robert Adams,

APL construction representative; John Smith, ASI assistant program manager; R.

Bloom, Marad construction representative; and S. Altieri, APL machinery inspector.

Avondale Lays Keel For Largest

U.S.-Built Diesel-Powered Containership

The keel for the first of three diesel-powered containerships un- der construction for American

President Lines (APL) was laid recently at Avondale Shipyards,

Inc. (ASI) near New Orleans.

These three containerships will be the largest ever built in the

United States, and the first do- mestically owned and built with diesel propulsion.

Each of the 860-foot, single- screw vessels will be powered by a slow-speed, direct-coupled, Allis

Chalmers 'Sulzer 12RND90M die- sel engine, also constructed in the U.S. With an output of 43,200 bhp at 126 rpm, they will be ca- pable of sustaining a maximum service speed of 25 knots at the design draft of 29 feet 7 inches.

Each ship will have a carrying capacity of 2,500 twenty-foot con- tainers.

Attending the keel-laying cer- emonies for the first vessel were:

Eugene K. Pentimonti, APL vice president-engineering; Lt. Cdr.

Don Tunstall, U.S. Coast Guard

The 19,407-dwt cargo ship Gal- leon Diamond (shown above) was delivered recently to Galleon Ship- ping Corporation of the Philip- pines by the Hiroshima Works (Innoshima) of Hitachi Zosen,

Japan. She is the first of three sister ships ordered from Hitachi by Galleon; one more will be con- structed at the Hiroshima Works and the other will be built at the

Setoda Shipyard of Naikai Zosen, an affiliate of Hitachi.

Galleon Diamond is designed to carry containers, lumber, bulk, and other cargoes. She will also be used to carry tobacco, coconut products, and hemp, therefore all cargo holds are fitted with de-

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Write 139 on Reader Service Card humidifiers. The ship is equipped with three 16-ton cranes for gen- eral cargo, and one 50-ton, twin type deck crane for extra-heavy cargoes such as construction ma- chinery.

The single main engine is the newly developed, long-stroke Hi- tachi /B&W diesel, type 6L67GFC, with constant-pressure turbo- charging. This fuel-efficient, two- stroke engine has a maximum continuous output of 11,200 bhp at 119 rpm; maximum trial speed was 19.8 knots.

Built to American Bureau of

Shipping classification, the 13,- 886-gt vessel has an overall length of 498.7 feet, beam of 75.8 feet, depth of 46.3 feet, and design draft (full load) of 32.5 feet.

Vemar Shipyard Delivers

Its First Offshore Rig

To Glendell Drilling

Vemar Shipyard, Channelview,

Texas, VECO International's off- shore rig construction facility, re- cently celebrated the completion of its first drilling rig. Nearly 600 people attended the christening ceremony at the Vemar yard.

Vemar built the $12-million posted barge rig for Glendell

Drilling Company. The new barge, which took over four months to complete, is a wetlands rig for use in the shallow waters of southern Louisiana. It has the capacity to drill down to 20,000 feet.

Mrs. Delwin C. Stults, wife of

Glendell's president, broke the traditional bottle of champagne to give the rig its official name,

Mr. Del. Vemar general manager

Charles Johnson said: "Over the next few years we have orders to built 10 rigs, but none will be as special as the first. This one stands as a monument to all the people who had a hand in build- ing it." Vemar currently employs more than 300 persons. 8 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News