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Review — Marigola (continued from page 28) room on the main deck. One panel is hydraulic and permits the read- out and adjustment of the pres- sures; the other is electric and allows control of the main func- tions of the cargo plant.

The deck machinery, manufac- tured by the Benetti yard, con- sists of two hydraulic self-ten- sioning windlasses, two hydraulic self-tensioning warping capstans of nine-ton capacity, and four 4-ton hydraulic windlasses for

Great Lakes service. Other deck gear includes two 3.5-ton landing booms, a hydraulic davit two-ton at 11.5 m and a portable davit for the portable pumps. The elec- trohydraulic steering gear is a

Frydenbo type HS 181D set.

The wheelhouse is equipped with two Decca radars (type RM 1226C) with plotting, azimuth stabilizer, and performance mon- itor; Decca satellite navigator, type D53; Plath Angulus radio direction finder with homing sys- tem ; Kelvin Hughes echosounder; and Microtecnica Sirius Mk 2 gy- rocompass. A Dancom HF 1200 radio station is installed in the communications room.

According to AMLICO of Stam- ford, Conn., exclusive U.S. repre- sentative of G.M.T., the Mari- gold's hull was designed by the shipyard with a view to achiev- ing the best performance, service speed, maximum tank volume, and deadweight to meet owner requirements. The design was tested extensively in ship model basins in Vienna and Rome.

The chemical carrier was classed by Registro Navale Itali- ano, meeting all IMCO, SOLAS, and U.S. Coast Guard require- ments.

MERAK EIGHTY

NKK (Nippon Kokan) of Ja- pan built the 42,000-dwt car/bulk carrier Merak Eighty — fitted with temporarily hoistable car- decks—for Irvine Shipping Inc. of Liberia. The bulk carrier is

NKK's first new vessel to be equipped with hoistable decks.

She was built at the Shimizu

Shipyard.

The cardeck installation, called

NKK-Kvaerner Hoistable Car

Deck System, is applicable to ves- sels having topside wing tanks, and provides temporary decks in the recessed space between the topside tanks and the tank tops by utilizing hold space to a min- imum.

Merak Eighty has a length be- tween perpendiculars of 184^50 meters, molded beam of 30.48 me- ters, molded depth of 17.75 me- ters, and draft of 11.55 meters (605.3/100/58.2/37.9 feet). Her single main engine is an NKK/

S.E.M.T. Pielstick 10PC4-V570 diesel with a maximum continu- ous rating of 15,000 bhp at 400 rpm, providing a service speed of 15.1 knots. Car capacity is ap- proximately 2,650 units.

The basic concept of the hoist- able deck technology is that dur-

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Maritime Reporter/Engineering News

The Controllable Pitch Propeller that fulfills all requirements of today's advanced shipbuilding technology... and certainly will do so in the future. For example: Ro-Ro, tankers, bulk carriers, etc.

ESCHER WYSS

CONTROLLABLE PITCH PROPELLERS

Licenser: )ESCHERWYSS (Member Sulzer Group)

Ravensburg, Germany

Licensee:

KAWASAKI

Heavy Industries Ltd. ^

Tokyo, Japan >