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Daewoo Delivers Second $80-Million Pacesetter Rig

To Santa Fe Drilling

Self-propelled, semi-submersible drilling rig built by Daewoo

Shipbuilding for Santa Fe Drilling was delivered recently. Rig, a Friede and Goldman L-907 Pacesetter type, can drill to al- most 25,000 feet.

Daewoo Shipbuilding and Heavy Machinery

Ltd. in Korea recently delivered a second semi-submersible drilling rig to Santa Fe

Drilling Company of Orange, Calif. Both rigs constructed for Santa Fe Drilling, a subsidi- ary of Santa Fe International Corporation, are self-propelled, Friede and Goldman L-907

Pacesetter types, with export prices of $80 million each. These rigs are capable of drilling to a depth of 24,750 feet in up to 1,500 feet of water, and provide living quarters for 96 personnel.

Since opening two years ago, Daewoo's

Okpo Shipyard has delivered eight drilling rigs of two types. In addition to the two built for Santa Fe, the Okpo yard has constructed two semi-submersibles for Reading and Bates

Drilling Company of Houston, and one each for Houlder Offshore Drilling Company and

Atlantic Drilling Company, both of the U.K.

A semi-submersible rig for Korea Drilling

Company is now under construction at the

Okpo Shipyard. With this rig's delivery in the spring of 1984, the drilling firm will be the first Korean company to own a drilling rig it operates. The rig will be used to explore Ko- rea's continental shelf and other national coastlines.

Also under construction at Okpo are 12 con- tainerships for U.S. Lines, chemical tankers for Stolt-Nielsen of Norway, bulk carriers for

Malaysia, and gas-compression platforms for

Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

Blount Marine Launches Another

Mini-Cruise Liner Built For

American Canadian Line

Blount Marine Corporation of Warren, R.I., recently launched the 165-foot, 80-passenger mini-cruise ship Caribbean Prince. Chris- tened by John Gentles, director of tourism for Jamaica, and constructed for American

Canadian Line, Inc., the new vessel will com- mence its Caribbean operations in January 1984 with a series of eight, 12-day "Circle 'Round Jamaica" cruises. The summer season will be spent cruising on the Great Lakes.

The Caribbean Prince is air conditioned and equipped with a retractable pilothouse for ne- gotiating the low bridges of the New York

Jamaican director of tourism John Gentles breaks the cham- pagne at recent christening and launch of the 80-passenger mini-cruise vessel Caribbean Prince that is building at Blount

Marine yard for American Canadian Line.

Canal System. The Prince is a bigger sister ship of the New Shoreham II, which is oper- ated in the Bahamas by American Canadian

Line.

The accompanying launching photo shows the novel combination bulbous bow/bow thrus- ter designed by Luther Blount, president of

Blount Marine.

WESMAR Presents Stability

Computer To 'President Lincoln' —Literature Available

WESMAR marketing manager, Tom Casey, presents Pieter

Boele, master of the "President Lincoln" with the company's first stability computer.

Western Marine Electronics (WESMAR) of

Seattle recently presented the company's first

SC44 stability computer and printer to the 860-foot containership President Lincoln. The presentation was in acknowledgement of

American President Lines' cooperation in test- ing the new device.

The small computer, roughly the size of a cigar box, constantly monitors the stability of a vessel while loading and while at sea, pro- viding visual as well as audible warning when stability declines. A digital readout displays

GM, (the number in feet between the center of gravity and the point at which the vessel loses stability). Changes in the center of gravity can be caused by several factors: overloading, the movement of fluids in holding tanks, ic- ing, vessel speed, and wave conditions.

Testing of the SC44 with APL consisted of two separate voyages, aboard the President

Lincoln and the 788-foot President Grant. The

President Lincoln is the United States' largest containership with a capacity of 1,250 forty- foot containers. According to Dan Rothen- buhler, WESMAR's chief engineer, the re- sults of the tests were impressive. "Our Sta- bility Computer measured virtually the same

GM as their expensive computer system; the difference was insignificant. The SC44 met and surpassed our objectives by displaying ex- tremely accurate GM readouts."

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