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Delivers Superferry 'Silvia Regina'

At recent meeting of Long Beach/Greater Los Angeles Section of ASNE, Capt.

Joseph A. Gildea, USN (Section chairman), presented Certificate of Appreciation to J. Robert Malone, immediate past chairman of the Section.

U.S. Combat Systems In Foreign

Built Ships Topic At ASNE Meeting

The Wartsila Turku Shipyards in Finland recently delivered the car/passenger ferry Silvia Regina (shown above) to Stockholms

Rederi A/B Svea. Under the man- agement of Silja Line of Abo,

Finland, the new vessel will op- erate on the Helsinki-Stockholm route. At 25,680 grt and with 1,601 beds, the Silvia Regina and sister ship Finlandia are the big- gest car/passenger ferries in the world. Total carrying capacity of each vessel is 2,000 passengers and 480 cars or 70 trailers.

Each of the 647 cabins is fur- nished with two beds side by side; some cabins have an addi- tional Pullman bed. The cabins range in size from 9 to 12 to 20 square meters. Each is equipped with shower, toilet, radio, and au- tomatic alarm. The larger cabins also have internal telephone serv- ice. Exceptional noise insulation has been achieved by the use of sandwich type internal bulkheads consisting of rock wool insulation between sheet steel plates that are coated with polyvinyl chlor- ide.

On Decks 7 and 8 are the Max- im restaurants. The Maxim a la

Carte, Maxim Grill, and Maxim

Special are on Deck 7. On Deck 8 are the Maxim Terrace and the

Silja Club for 150 guests. Also located on Deck 7 is the self- service Silja Tavern. The wide

Arcade, with seating groups against the ship's sides and a tax- free shop on the inside, connects the Silja Tavern and Maxim a la

Carte.

Deck 9 contains conference spaces with audiovisual equip- ment, conference hostess, and first-class service for 250 pas- sengers.

The regular monthly meeting of the Long Beach/Greater Los

Angeles Section of the American

Society of Naval Engineers was held recently at the Officer's Club of the Los Alamitos Armed

Forces Reserve Center. The meet- ing was convened by Section chairman Capt. J.A. Gildea, USN, who gave a comprehensive report on the proceedings of the Annual

ASNE Day in Washington.

Before starting the technical portion of the meeting, Capt.

Gildea, acting in behalf of ASNE president Vice Adm. Bryan, USN (Ret.), presented a Certificate of

Appreciation to Robert Malone, chairman of the Section for the 1979-80 term.

In the absence of program chairman Carl Erickson, Capt.

Gildea then introduced the speak- er of the evening, Charles V. Hill, program manager, systems in- stallation and integration, Po- mona Division of General Dynam- ics. His topic was "Combat Sys- tems of the U.S. Navy in Foreign-

Built Ships."

Mr. Hill commenced by point- ing out that in the foreign area there are several shipyards build- ing modern hull designs in the 1,000- to 2,500-ton categories, and the U.S. shipyards are not. The foreign navies have become ac- quainted with U.S. weapons sys- tems by virtue of transfers of more than 115 destroyers of the

Fletcher, Gearing, and Sumner classes, with Brazil, Greece,

Spain, Taiwan, and Turkey ac- counting for more than half of the vessels transferred.

The current U.S. Navy is com- prised largely of combatant ves- sels of over 3,500 tons, whereas the majority of our foreign allies are building vessels of 2,700 tons and less. We have exported weap- ons for installation by foreign shipbuilders in foreign yards, pri- marily for ships of that country's navy. Now we are being con- fronted with third country pro- grams such as ships for Turkey built in Germany, ships for New

Zealand and Saudi Arabia con- structed in Italy, all wanting U.S. weapons systems, Mr. Hill said.

The author pointed out that there appears to be a world mar- ket for naval ships in the 1,000- 2,500 ton sizes, and there are none of these currently being produced in the U.S. From this he deduced that, providing U.S. shipbuilders are or can be com- petitive, perhaps our shipyards should become interested in pro- duction of these smaller ships for our foreign allies. • Crown Assets Corporation de disposition

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