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Los Angeles SNAME Discusses

Liquid Level Gauging By Radar

IHI Delivers Suction Dredge

And Tug To Mexican Government tions for 74 crew members. The tugboat will be used for towing the dredger and for other various jobs at the dredging site.

The Veracruz II has an overall length of 336.3 feet, beam of 57.4 feet, and depth of 16.4 feet. Max- imum dredging depth is 82 feet to a nominal discharge distance of 8,200 feet. There are two cutting motors, each of 700 kw dc.

Powered by two diesel engines each of 836 bhp, the tug RD-26 has an overall length of 83.3 feet, beam of 23.6 feet, and depth of 10.5 feet. Trial speed was 12.9 knots. for dredging work at Mazatlan

Port in Mexico, which will be car- ried out by the Mexican Govern- ment as a part of its expansion project of ports and harbors on the Pacific Coast in Mexico. The up-to-date cutter suction dredger is equipped with a powerful cut- ter, suction auxiliary ejector sys- tem, spud buffering system, trav- eling deck crane, and accommoda-

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Bob Young recently joined the technical staff along with Robert

The Los Angeles Metropolitan

Section of The Society of Naval

Architects and Marine Engineers gathered for a recent meeting aboard the converted cruise ship

Princess Louise berthed in Los

Angeles Harbor. The subject of the evening's technical paper, "Radar — A New Approach to

Level Gauging," is as current to ship technology as the joggled and riveted frames and webs of the Princess Louise are archaic.

Gorjan Martensson of Saab-

Scania prepared and presented the timely paper to acquaint those present with his company's solu- tion to the problem of accurately and reliably measuring liquid lev- els in ship cargo tanks. He began by outlining the various measur- ing systems in current use, and detailed the qualities and defici- encies he felt were inherent to each. The author went on to de- tail the theory of the Saab-Scania radar system that, according to

Mr. Martensson, overcomes the problems of existing systems by limiting the incursion of the de- vice into the harsh environment of tanks to radio frequency waves.

The author concluded his presen- tation by candidly describing the trials associated with developing a new system for shipboard use.

Shown with model of the Princess Louise during recent meeting of SNAME Los

Angeles Metropolitan Section are (L to R): Charles Heil, Sections representative;

Gorjan Martensson, author; George Stiehl, vice chairman; and Ned Stewart, chair- man of the Section.

Maritime Reporter/Engineering News

The Veracruz II (shown above), a 4,500-bhp cutter suction dredg- er, has been delivered to Secre- taria de Comunicaciones y Trans- portes, Mexico, by the Aichi

Works of Ishikawajima-Harima

Heavy Industries Company, Ltd. (IHI), Japan. The RD-26, a 1,672- bhp tugboat to be attached to the dredger, has also been delivered.

The new dredger will be used

Designed for off shore oil rig supply work, built of steel welded construction, tested and approved by the American

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