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(continued from page 22) 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. The Blue

Ridge and her sister ships incor-

Outstanding Vessels

Review — Blue Ridge

COATINGS WITH

VERSAMID 280-B75 POLYAMIDE ADDUCT

SHOW THEIR GOIORS THR000H 4000 H00RS

OF SALT F00 TESTS.

Henkel's exclusive Versamid 280-B-75

Polyamide Adduct, combined with our Genamid® 2000 Amidoamine

Resin and an epoxy resin, are the basis for the tough coating systems de- fined in Navy specification MIL-P- 24441. (SHIPS)

These marine and industrial coat- ings are inherently corrosion resistant.

They outperform even traditional epoxy/polyamide systems formu- lated with costly rust inhibitive pig- ments. Even through 4000 hour salt- fog and two-year Florida tidewater testing.

The Versamid 280 System also is ideal in situations where you can't get the substrate as clean as you would like. That's because of its excellent substrate wetting and moisture dis- placement characteristics.

What's more, it is a low viscosity resin and provides the solvent savings of higher solids. And it offers improved cure at low temperatures.

Versamid 280's patented technol- ogy makes it the industry standard.

Years of use on Navy ships prove it can handle the toughest marine and in- dustrial applications.

So when you need to show your col- ors in long-lasting marine and indus- trial maintenance formulations, Hen- kel's Versamid 280 can help. For more information about this unusual resin system, write: Resins Division, Henkel

Corporation, 4620 West 77th Street,

Dept. MR-121, Minneapolis, MN 55435.

Resins Division

Henkel porate state-of-the-art equipment and meet the latest safety and environmental protection stand- ards including double bottoms, a clean segregated ballast system, an inert gas system, a sewage treatment plant, collision avoid- ance radar, and a backup steer- ing system.

The ships, ordered by Union

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

The shipbuilder is a wholly owned subsidiary of Morrison-Knudsen

Company, Inc., Boise, Idaho.

The Blue Ridge hull was con- structed in the flat-bottomed, 1,000-foot-long NASSCO building 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. The second of the sisterships, Coast

Range, was launched on Janu- ary 10, 1981, and the third, Sier- ra Madre, was launched on May 2.

The Blue Ridge will transport products from Union Oil's refin- ery in Beaumont, Texas, to At- lantic and Gulf Coast ports.

S/S BLUE RIDGE

Main Propulsion . . General Electric turbines and gears 13,000-shp, 1,500-kw ship service turbo- generators

Propellers Ferguson

Shaft Waukesha

Bearings Waukesh

Panels General Regulator

Steering Sperry Marine

Boilers Foster Wheeler

Condensers Transamerica

DeLaval

Pumps Worthington (27)

Deepwell cargo

Radar Raytheon

Navigation ITT Mackay

Winches and Davits . . . Lake Shore

Anchor/chain Hewett Marine

Fairleads Appleton Marine

GALLEON DIAMOND

The 19,407-dwt multipurpose cargo ship Galleon Diamond was delivered to Galleon Shipping Cor- poration of the Philippines by the

Hiroshima Works (Innoshima) of

Hitachi Zosen, Japan. She is the first of three sister ships ordered from Hitachi by Galleon; one more will be constructed at the

Hiroshima Works and the other was built at the Setoda Shipyard of Naikai Zosen, an affiliate of

Hitachi.

Galleon Diamond is designed to carry a variety of cargoes such as containers, lumber, bulk, etc.

She will also transport tobacco, coconut products, and hemp, for which all holds have been fitted with dehumidifiers. The ship is equipped with three 16-ton cranes for general cargo, and one 50-ton, twin-type deck crane for extra- heavy cargoes such as construc- tion machinery.

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