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Calendar Of Coming Events 6th Annual Meeting Aug. 18-20

Sponsored by the International Omega Associ- ation.

Montreal, Canada. Contact IOA at P.O. Box 2324,

Arlington, Va. 22202.

Offshore Goteborg Aug. 19-21

International offshore exhibition and conference organized by the National Swedish Board for

Technical Development, the Swedish Maritime

Research Centre, Lloyd's Register of Shipping, and others.

Swedish Trade Fair Foundation exhibition halls,

Gothenburg. Contact STFF, Box 5222, S-402 24

Gothenburg, Sweden; 031 20 00 00, telex 20600.

International Marine Fuel Utilization Conference

Sept. 1-4

Sponsored by Marine Energy Institute, Inc.

Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Md. Con- tact James Cunningham, Marine Energy Institute, 1410 Locust Street, Baltimore, Md. 21204; (301) 825-4238. 8th Annual Research and Engineering for Auto- mation and Productivity in Shipbuilding (REAPS)

Symposium Sept. 15-17

Sponsored by various U.S. shipyards and the

Maritime Administration, and conducted by IIT

Research Institute.

OCEANS 81 Sept. 16-18

Sponsored by the Marine Technology Society and the Council on Ocean Engineering.

Sheraton Hotel, Boston. Contact Jack McCarthy,

OCEANS 81, P.O. Box 436, Cohasset, Mass. 02025; (617) 383-0720.

Coal Ports West Sept. 16-18

A seminar sponsored by The American Associa- tion of Port Authorities.

Holiday Inn Holidome, Sacremento, Calif. Contact

Rexford B. Sherman, director of research and pub- lications, AAPA, 1612 K Street, N.W., Washing- ton, D.C. 20006; (202) 331-1263.

Baltimore Hilton Hotel, Baltimore, Md. Contact

Marge Hernandez, REAPS Program Librarian,

IITRl, 10 West 35th Street, Chicago, 111. 60616; (312) 567-4623. 16th Annual Marine Insurance Seminar

Sept. 20-22

Sponsored by Houston Mariners Club.

Houston Oaks Hotel. Contact Capt. Jack Roberts. 2918 Green Tee Drive, Pearland, Texas 77581; (713) 485-2464.

Maritime Liabilities Conference Oct. 5-7

Sponsored by Fisher Maritime Transportation

Counselors, Inc.

Seamen's Church Institute, New York City. Con- tact Kenneth W. Fisher, FMTC, 50 South Orange

Avenue, South Orange, N.J.; (201) 763-4266.

SHIPASIA Exhibition and Conference Oct. 13-17

Sponsored by The Hong Kong Shipowners Associ- ation, the Hong Kong Joint Branch of the Royal

Institution of Naval Architects and the Institute of Marine Engineers, and the Shipping Committee of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, in cooperation with the ShipAsia management.

The conference will be organized by Lloyd's of

London Press Ltd.

Ocean Terminal, Hong Kong. Contact Peter K.

Johnson, director, ShipAsia '81, 6006 Bellaire

Boulevard, Suite 101, Houston, Texas 77081; (713) 666-5188, telex 910 881 5777.

Extreme Loads Response Symposium Oct. 19-20

Presented by the Ship Structure Committee and

The Society of Naval Architects and Marine

Engineers.

Sheraton National Hotel, Arlington, Va. Contact

Cdr. James A. Sanial, registration chairman,

ELRS, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters (G-DMT- 1/54), Washington, D.C. 20593.

Vth International Congress Oct. 20-23

Sponsored by the Society of Maritime Arbitrators,

Inc., The Maritime Association of the Port of

New York (MAPNY), and the Association of the

Bar of the City of New York.

Hotel Vista International, New York City. Con- tact C.S. Truog, MAPNY, 80 Broad Street, New

York, N.Y. 10004; (212) 425-5704.

Gastech 81: 8th International LNG/LPG

Conference & Exhibition Oct. 20-23

Organized by Business Meetings Limited.

Congress Centrum, Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany. Contact Gastech Secretariat, 2 Sta- tion Road, Rickmansworth, Herts WD3 1QP,

England; (09237) 76363, telex 924312. (Preview in October 1 issue of MR/EN)

Multipurpose Cargo Vessel

Launched At GHH Sterkrade Yard

The launching ceremony for a new ship,

Yard No. 1143, was performed recently at the M.A.N. Division GHH Sterkrade dock construction yard, Nordenham/Blexen, by

Mrs. Franziska Ewen, the wife of the West

German Member of Parliament Carl Ewen (Aurich/Emden). Another ship of the same design, the Yard No. 1144, is also to be launched this year from the GHH Walsum shipyard on the Rhine.

These 3,020-dwt multipurpose cargo ships are of a special design, combining certain features of a seagoing ship with those char- acteristic of an inland waterway vessel.

These features essentially are a minimum draft, low fixed point heights, wheelhouses that can be hydraulically lowered to provide extra clearance for passing under bridges, and a great stability in high seas. All the necessary navigational equipment is also in- stalled.

This new concept in transport is econom- ical in terms of both time and money, elim- inating the costs of reloading goods from inland waterway vessels onto seagoing ships, and vice versa. Thus, possibilities for new markets arise. Much experience has been gained in the past few years by building prototypes of this kind of ship, which are used to serve ports on the Rhine as well as on the Danube and Rhone Rivers.

The ship is driven by a four-stroke main diesel engine having a power rating of 970 kw (1,320 bhp) via a reversing speed re- ducer with fixed-pitch propeller. The propel- ling machinery is designed to insure 16 hours unattended operation. Two three-phase ac generator sets, each for 100 kva, in addition to a port-duty set for 46 kva, supply the ship with electrical power.

The living quarters, comprising 11 single cabins are situated aft and are complete with air-conditioning and modern furnish- ings. The navigational equipment consists of the electrohydraulically driven steering gear, the electrically driven bow thruster having a power rating of 100 kw, as well as the automatic steering system coupled with the gyrocompass.

Various units are available for naviga- tion both at sea and on rivers. These include a river radar unit, sea radar unit, echo- sounding gear, satellite-based navigation system, radio direction finder, intermediate/ shortwave and radiotelephone system, and two ultra-shortwave radio systems, one de- signed for the sea, the other for use on the

Rhine.

Built under survey of German Lloyd ac- cording to class GL + 100A 4 E, fitted for container transport, and + MCE Aut. 16/24, the ship has an overall length of about 327.4 feet, molded beam of 37.2 feet, molded depth of 25.5 feet, and draft of 14.3 feet.

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