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$5-Million Contract To

Burrard Yarrows For

Vessel Lengthening

The Burrard Yarrows Corpo- ration, Vancouver, Canada, was recently awarded a major con- tract—worth nearly five million

U.S. dollars—to lengthen the geo- physical exploration vessel Hollis

Hedberg by 60 feet.

The purpose of the lengthen- ing to 262 feet is to permit the installation of new sophisticated data processing and other special exploration equipment. The ves- sel, built by Burrard Yarrows

Vancouver Division in 1974, is owned by Cayman Island Vessels,

Ltd., and is on a long-term char- ter to Gulf Research and Devel- opment Company. Preliminary work on the contract has already begun, and the vessel will arrive at Burrard Yarrows's Vancouver

Division on January 15 next year.

She is scheduled to leave on

April 15.

The Hollis Hedberg, which is classed ABC Ice Class LIA, can accommodate a crew and techni- cal complement of approximately 55 people. A helicopter landing f deck and additional fire-fighting equipment will also be installed.

The naval architects involved in the conversion are William R.

Brown and Associates of Van- couver.

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The S/S Blue Ridge (shown above) the first of three 37,500- dwt Carlsbad Class product car- riers built by National Steel and Shipbuilding Co., San Diego,

Calif., for Union Oil Co. of Cali- fornia, was delivered recently in ceremonies held aboard the new ship.

The product carrier was re- ceived by Capt. Glenn O. Burk, president of West Coast Shipping

Co., a subsidiary of Union Oil.

The Blue Ridge hull was con- structed in the company's fiat- bottomed 1,000-foot-long build- ing dock. Launching was accom- plished by flooding the dock and floating out the vessel.

The name Blue Ridge is in hon- or of the mountain range in the

Appalachians extending from

New England to Georgia. See

MR/EN December 15, 1980, page 26, and MR/EN June 15, 1981, pages 26-27.

The second of the sister ships,

Coast Range, was launched on

January 10, 1981, and the third,

Sierra Madre, was launched on

May 2. Both are scheduled to be delivered before the end of the year. The Blue Ridge will trans- port products from Union Oil's refinery in Beaumont, Texas, to

Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports.

The ships are a new class de- signed by NASSCO. Each of the refined products carriers has a capacity of 300,000 barrels and is capable of carrying several dif- ferent products simultaneously.

The Blue Ridge can transport up to 20 different products in 27 cargo tanks. Each tank is fitted with a deep well cargo pump.

The 658-foot-long ship is also fitted with a cylindrical append- age-type bulbous bow to improve speed, and is powered by a GE steam turbine engine. Each of the vessels incorporates state-of- the-art equipment and meets the latest safety and environmental protection standards including double bottoms, a clean segre- gated ballast system, an inert gas system, a sewage treatment plant, collision avoidance radar, and a backup steering system.

The ships, ordered by Union

Oil in April 1979, were built en- tirely without federal subsidy.

NASSCO currently has under contract a total of seven product tankers, two U.S. Navy destroyer tenders, and a Navy cable repair ship. The shipbuilder is a wholly owned subsidiary of Morrison-

Knudsen Company, Inc., Boise,

Idaho.

S/S BLUE RIDGE

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ITT Mackay: Navigation Equipment.

Sperry Marine: Steering gear.

Hewett Marine: Anchor, chain.

Lake Shore: Davits and winches.

Appleton Marine: Fairleads.

Ferguson: Propellers

Foster Wheeler: Main boilers.

Waukesha: Shaft and stern tube bearings.

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