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Lockheed To Build

Prototype Vehicles To*'

Destroy Naval Mines

Lockheed of Sunnyvale, Calif., announced recently that it will build and test six prototype, low- cost underwater vehicles that can be launched from helicopters to destroy enemy naval mines.

The battery-powered, wire- guided vehicle, dubbed the Low- cost Expendable Neutralization

System (LENS), will be built un- der contract to the Naval Air

Systems Command. Program manager Rollin Swanson of Lock- heed Missiles & Space Co., Sun- nyvale, Calif., said the vehicle will be 5 feet long and 8 inches in c iameter.

The LENS will be used in con- junction with existing fleet mine- hunter sonar systems and will be capable of neutralizing both moored mines and those laying on the ocean floor, Mr. Swanson said. Subcontractor is EDO West- ern Corp., Salt Lake City, Utah, which will supply the sonar and terminal guidance systems.

For Lockheed, LENS is the latest in a series of small, highly accurate, remotely-controlled tac- tical and research systems. Oth- ers include a device to render useless airfield runways and to destroy bunkers; a small un-

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Smith Joins Farrell Lines

As Account Executive

Peter V. Smith has joined Far- rell Lines as an account execu- tive, it was announced recently by Andrew W. D'Alessandro, gen- eral manager of New York sales.

Mr. Smith has five years' ex- perience in the shipping indus- try in operations and sales and will represent Farrell Lines' Aus- tralian / New Zealand, Mediter- ranean, and West African serv- ices in New York City.

Mitsui Delivers Panamax

Tanker To U.K. Owner

A Mitsui-B&W diesel powers the London

Victory.

Mitsui Engineering & Ship- building Co., Ltd. recently deliv- ered from its Chiba yard the 62,153-dwt London Victory to

London & Overseas Freighters

Pic. of England. The ship, an improved Panamax-class tanker, is the second of two identical ves- sels ordered by the same owner.

Driven by a turbocharged Mit- sui-B&W 7L67GA diesel engine developing a maximum continu- ous output of 15,200 bhp at 123 rpm, the London Victory record- ed a maximum trial speed of 16.5 knots. The vessel's principal di- mensions are: 281.50 meters in length o.a., 32.20 meters in mold- ed breadth, and 12.81 meters full load draft.

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