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Esercizio Cantieri Launches

Tug/Supply Vessel Of New Design

An anchor-handling/tug-supply vessel with rescue and antipollu- tion features, the Val Cadore, was launched recently at the Viareg- gio, Italy, yard of Societa Esercizio

Cantieri (SEC). Built for Cispa

Gas Transport S.p.A. of Trieste, the vessel is a new SEC design for the Italian flag, propelled by four medium-speed, heavy-fuel Wart- sila Vasa diesel engines, type 8R22HF, developing a total of 6,400 bhp at 1,000 rpm. The engines are able to burn fuel oil of 1,500 sec- onds Redwood 1 without limita- tions. Speed at full load is ex- pected to be 15 knots with all four engines operating, and 13 knots with only two engines in use.

Reduction gears were supplied by Tacke and controllable-pitch propellers in Kort nozzles by Berg.

Two electro-hydraulic, Berg c-p bow thrusters, each of 300 hp, two

Tenfjord rotary-vane, independent steering gears, and the two main propellers can be controlled re- motely by an ASEA computerized "joystick" system.

The Val Cadore has an overall length of 65.25 meters, beam of 13.95 meters, and depth of 6.30 meters (214 by 45.77 by 20.67 feet).

A recent keel-laying ceremony at National Steel and Shipbuild- ing Company (NASSCO) in San

Diego initiated construction of a 126-foot midbody section for the first of three roll-on/roll-off (RO/

RO) ships that are being converted into Maritime Pre-Positioning

Ships for charter to the U.S. Navy's

Military Sealift Command (MSC).

The vessels are being converted for subsidiaries of Waterman

Steamship Corporation. Upon completion, they will be time- chartered to the MSC in support of the U.S. Marine Corps.

The Maritime Pre-Positioning

Ship Program is an integral ele- ment of the Rapid Deployment

Force concept of operations. This concept forms the backbone of the

U.S. immediate response capabil- ity throughout the world by pro- viding for the rapid deployment of a large combat force with equip- ment and supplies for 30 days of sustained operations.

The keel-laying ceremony took place between the two halves of the RO/RO ship that had been cut in two and separated. Insertion of the 126-foot midbody will give the converted ship an overall length of 826 feet.

Principal speaker of the day was

Vice Adm. William H. Rowden,

USN, Commander, MSC. His wife,

Sarah Rowden, served as spon- sor. Major Gen. Ernest C. Chea- tham, USMC, Commanding Gen- eral of the First Marine

Amphibious Force and Command- ing General of the First Marine

Division, Fleet Training Force,

Camp Pendleton, also addressed the gathering, and his wife, JoAnn

Cheatham, served as matron of honor.

Other participants included

Larry French, NASSCO presi- dent; James E. Jenkins, deputy counselor to the President of the

United States; Andrew Prince, deputy assistant secretary of the

Navy, sealift and maritime affairs;

Edward P. Walsh, president,

NASSCO Begins Conversion Of First

Maritime Pre-Positioning RO/RO

Waterman Steamship Corpora- tion; and Comdr." Victor Krulak, chaplain, U.S. Naval Training

Center. NASSCO vice president of marketing Alfred W. Lutter served as master of ceremonies.

Each Maritime Pre-Positioning

Ship will be named for deceased

Marine Corps Medal of Honor re- cipients. NASSCO's first ship will be named Sergeant Macej Kocak for the marine who received the

Medal of Honor posthumously for extraordinary heroism displayed in France during World War II.

Completion of the three-ship contract, which will maintain ap- proximately 2,500 jobs at NAS-

SCO during peak manning, is scheduled for April 1985. Multi-purpose tug/supply vessel Val Cadore on the ways prior to recent launching at the Viareggio yard of Societa Esercizio Cantieri. Vessel is powered by Wartsila diesels.

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Principals at recent NASSCO keel-laying ceremony were (L to R): Vice Adm. William H. Rowden,

Commander, Military Sealift Command; Major Gen. Ernest C. Cheatham Jr., Commanding Gen- eral of 1st Marine Amphibious Force and 1st Marine Division, Fleet Training Force; C. Larry

French, president of NASSCO; Mrs. Ernest C. Cheatham, matron of honor; and Mrs. William H.

Rowden, sponsor.

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