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$186-Million Contract To Convert

Tanker Into Hospital Ship

Awarded To National Steel

National Steel & Shipbuilding Co., of San

Diego, Calif., has been awarded a U.S. Navy contract to convert a San Clemente-class tanker into a 1,000-bed hospital ship, accord- ing to the shipyard's parent company, Morri- son-Knudsen Co. Inc. of Boise, Idaho.

The contract, amounting to $186 million, calls for 12 operating rooms in the converted vessel along with accommodations for about 1,600 medical support personnel.

The Navy made design contract awards on the hospital ship conversion project in July 1982. It subsequently received two proposals.

One was from NASSCO in conjunction with

Worth Oil Transport Co., and Northwest Ship- ping Corp. based on converting tankers.

The other was from Prudential Lines, which offered to convert one or more of its LASH vessels.

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Women's Propeller Club Of

Jacksonville Donates To The

U.S. Merchant Marine Academy

U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Foundation president Charles

Cushing (left), accepts a donation to the academy from Harry

Hart, representing the Women's Propeller Club of Jackson- ville, Fla.

The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings

Point, N.Y., has received a donation from the

Women's Propeller Club of Jacksonville, Fla.

The funds will be used to help further mid- shipmen activities and programs that do not receive the financial support of the federal government. Among these are student athlet- ics, the sailing squadron, the regimental band, and a cultural affairs program. The Propeller

Club check was presented to USMMA Foun- dation president Charles Cushing by Cmdr.

Harry Hart, USMS (ret.), former public infor- mation officer at the academy.

Halifax Industries Celebrates

Inauguration Of Floating Dock —Brochure Offered On Facilities

Attending the New York reception were: Kenneth E. Wood, president and chief executive officer, Halifax Industries, Ltd.,

John Bell, deputy consulate general Canadian Consul- ate, N.Y.;and Walter Thorsen, president Walter Thorsen, Inc.,

U.S. representative for Halifax Industries.

Halifax Industries Ltd., Nova Scotia, re- cently celebrated the inauguration of its $63.5- million Panamax floating dock with a recep- tion held for area shipowners at the Canadian consulate in New York City.

In attendance were Kenneth E. Wood, president and chief executive officer of Halifax

Industries; Philip M. McGavney and John

Landry, assistants to the president; John

Bell, Canadian deputy counsul general of

New York; and Walter Thorsen, U.S. agent for Halifax Industries.

Halifax Industries has two shipyards—Hal- ifax Shipyard at Halifax and Dartmouth Ma- rine Slips located at Dartmouth across the harbor. Halifax Industries Limited is 50 per- cent each owned by CNM, Inc. (Crown Corpo- ration) and Halco, Inc. Halifax Shipyard be- gan operations 1887 and Dartmouth Marine

Slips 1850. They have built various types of vessels from naval destroyers, passenger fer- ries, deep sea trawlers to semisubmersible drilling rigs.

In 1979, Halifax Shipyard, in its first phase of modernization spent $7.5 million upgrading and replacing yard equipment and purchased its $6-million, floating drydock, "Scotiadock."

In 1980 a further $6 million was spent up- grading steel fabrication capabilities at the yard. Phase two of the modernization will be an additional $16 million to be spent over the next five years upgrading shops to accommo- date repairs on vessels up to 100,000 tons.

Halifax Shipyards now offer the following drydocks:

Drydock Length- Width- Lifting

Meters/ Meters/ Capacity

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Graving 172.9m/ 24.4m/ 13,610 dock 567 ft. 80 ft. max tons

Scotia 185.3m/ 25.2m/ 16,000 dock-FD 608 ft. 83 ft. tons

Panamax 233.0m/ 38.00m/ 36,000 dock-FD 764 ft. 125 ft. tons

Dartmouth Marine Slips has five marine slipways with a maximum hauling capacity of 3,100 tons for repair of vessels up to 3,000 tons. The U.S. agent for Halifax Industries is

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