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Chemical Waste Incinerator Ships

Discussed At SNAME Chesapeake Section

Fairbanks Morse-powered M/V Charles Haun.

HUDSHIP Delivers The M/V Charles Haun

To Parker Towing Company

Hudson Shipbuilders, Inc. (HUDSHIP) recently delivered the M/V Charles Haun to Parker

Towing Company, Inc. of Tusca- loosa, Ala.

The Charles Haun is an 85-foot by 34-foot by 10-foot 6-inch twin screw towboat. The vessel is pow- ered by twin Fairbanks Morse 38D8 Vs six-cylinder diesel en- gines driving through MGI LST reverse/reduction gears. Auxil- iary power is provided by Detroit

Diesel 6-71N, 1,200-rpm genera- tor sets rated at 75 kw each.

The boat can carry 34,000 gal- lons of fuel, 800 gallons of lube oil and 5,100 gallons of potable water, making it ideally suited for the rough conditions of harbor work and the economical opera- tion of the long tow. Maneuver- ability for the Charles Haun is provided through two 84-inch stainless-steel four-blade propel- lers, two steering rudders and four flanking rudders. The steer- ing system was furnished by

Skipper Hydraulics, Inc.

Deck machinery consists of two

Beebe electric barge winches mod- els 35RRC and 35LRC equipped

Study Notes Upsurge In

Offshore Rig Orders —U.S. Yards In Lead

Worldwide orders for offshore mobile and fixed rigs for explo- ration and drilling for oil and natural gas have increased con- siderably during the 12 months ending in July 1981, according to a study just released by the

Bremen Institute for Shipping

Economics.

At the beginning of July there were 224 units on order in 21 countries — 163 jackup rigs, 57 submersibles and semisubmers-

November 15, 1981 with 130 feet of 7/s-inch, 6 by 37 galvanized wire rope, and two

Skipper Hydraulics electric cap- stans. The living accommodations are designed for maximum crew comfort. Staterooms are arranged to provide three two-man and two one-man facilities.

Parker Towing operates tow- boats and open hopper barges in the Warrior-Tombigbee, Coosa and the Alabama River areas and through the Gulf Intracoastal

Waterway System. Capt. Tim

Parker Sr., president, and Tim

Parker Jr., vice president, ac- cepted delivery of the Charles

Haun, which is named after their operations manager. The Charles

Haun was designed by Townsend

Marine Consultants of George- town, Conn., and will be operating on the Black Warrior and Tom- bigbee Rivers in Alabama.

In their wide range of vessels offered, HUDSHIP produces a standard design 85-foot towboat similar to the Charles Haun, as well as 112-foot and 120-foot util- ity vessels and 165-foot, 185-foot, and 203-foot offshore supply ves- sels. ibles, and four drillships and drill barges.

At the same date in 1980, ac- cording to the institute's director,

Dr. Hans Ludwig Beth, there were 129 units on orderbooks — 109 jackups, 16 submersibles and semisubmersibles, and four drill- ships and barges.

Dr. Beth said this sector was in the doldrums at the beginning of 1978 when there were only 33 units on order worldwide. With the pressure on to find new sources of oil and natural gas, there has been a continuous, dra- matic growth in the number of orders.

The U.S. leads the field with

A paper entitled "Chemical

Waste Incinerator Ships — The

Interagency Program to Develop a Capability in the United States" was presented at a recent Chesa- peake Section of SNAME meet- ing held at the Washington Navy

Yard Officer's Club. The paper's authors were Daniel Leubecker and Lissa Martinez of the Mari- time Administration; Gerald

Chapman and Donald Oberacker of the Environmental Protection

Agency; Rosalie Matthews of the

National Bureau of Standards, and Fritz Wybenga of the Coast

Guard.

John Nachtsheim, president of the Society, delivered an intro- ductory statement for the panel of authors, stressing the need for such vessels. Mr. Nachtsheim had been a contributing member of the interagency work group.

The authors noted that the

U.S. currently confronts a serious and massive hazardous materials disposal problem. It is estimated that tens of millions of tons of contracts for 79 offshore units, followed by Japan with 33, Sing- apore with 29, France with 12,

South Korea with nine and Can- ada with eight.

Home Brothers Awarded $5-Million Navy Contract

Home Brothers Incorporated,

Newport News, Va., has been awarded a $5,519,962 formerly advertised firm-fixed price con- tract for the regularly scheduled overhaul of USS Fairfax County (LST 1193). Work will be per- formed in Newport News. (N62- 678-73-C-0031) hazardous waste are generated annually across the nation. Fur- thermore, there are thousands of disposal sites throughout the country being improperly main- tained and may pose significant health problems.

The authors detailed the orga- nization, responsibilities, and areas of concern of an inter- agency ad hoc work group that studied at-sea incineration. The principal agencies were the En- vironmental Protection Agency,

MarAd, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the National Bureau of Stand- ards. The alternatives available to the Federal Government, as defined by the ad hoc group, for encouraging the design, construc- tion, and operation of a U.S.-flag incinerator vessel were also de- scribed by the authors.

The paper illustrated the work of each agency, as well as de- scribed vessel design considera- tions and the projected need for, and type of waterfront facilities.

Vessel prototypes were also dis- cussed. $110-Million Navy Contract

Modification Awarded

To General Electric

General Electric Company, Ma- chinery Apparatus Operation,

Schenectady, N.Y., has been awarded a $110,170,000 modifi- cation to a previously awarded cost plus fixed fee contract for naval nuclear propulsion compo- nents. Work will be performed at various locations. The Naval Sea

Systems Command is the con- tracting activity. (N00024-74-C- 5009) 19

Participants in the presentation of a paper on "Chemical Waste Incinerator Ships" were, left to right: Gerald O. Chapman, Environmental Protection Agency, author;

Daniel W. Leubecker, Maritime Administration, author; Ms. Lissa A. Martinez, Mar- itime Administration, author; Frits Wybenga, Coast Guard, author; Donald A.

Oberacker, Environmental Protection Agency, author; Frank J. Slyker, Bethlehem

Steel Corporation, Sparrows Point, chairman, Chesapeake Section, SNAME, and

Capt. J. Richard Gauthey, Naval Sea Systems Command, vice chairman. (Not pictured: Ms. Rosalie T. Matthews, National Bureau of Standards, author.)