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James P. Stuart

Incinerator Ship Apollo One

Launched At Tacoma Boatbuilding

The Apollo One, first oceangoing hazardous waste incinerator ship designed and built in the U.S., was launched at the Tacoma Boat- building Company's Yard No. 3 in

Tacoma, Wash., recently. The $37- million vessel and a sister ship, the Apollo Two, are being con- structed for At-Sea Incineration,

Inc. (ASI) of Port Newark, N.J., a wholly owned subsidiary of Ta- coma Boat.

Built with the aid of Federal Ti- tle XI loan guarantees, these ships have been designed to meet all ex- isting environmental and safety standards of the U.S. Coast Guard, the Environmental Protection

Agency, the Maritime Administra- tion, and the National Bureau of

Standards, among others, and are the first of their kind to meet the criteria of the American Bureau of

Shipping.

The Apollo One can safely de- stroy up to 30 million gallons of hazardous waste each year. She is the first in a fleet of ships that ASI will operate at Federally approved ocean burn sites. The currently approved site is in the Gulf of

Mexico near Cameron, La.; the other, whose approval is expected shortly, is in the Atlantic Ocean.

Both are 150-200 miles out at sea.

To support the burning of haz- ardous waste materials at sea, ASI will operate a multi-million-dollar marine transfer terminal near each of the burn sites. These commer- cial terminals will collect, test, blend, and temporarily store a va- riety of hazardous waste materials prior to transferring them to the incineration ships for disposal.

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The launch of Apollo One cul- minates years of cooperative effort among international regulatory agencies, the Federal Govern- ment, and private industry to de- velop an environmentally accepta- ble alternative to the inadequate and often dangerous hazardous waste disposal methods of the past.

Classed by the American Bu- reau of Shipping as + A1 E Chem- ical Carrier, +AMS, +ACCU, + IS, the Apollo One is designed with accommodations forward, chemical waste cargo tanks amid- ships, and propulsion and inciner- ation machinery aft. A forecastle deck is provided forward and a poop deck aft.

Twelve integral cargo tanks are located to comply with require- ments for a Type II cargo contain- ment system. A pipe trunk is pro- vided on center line throughout the length of the cargo space and from the inner bottom to the main deck. Transverse cofferdams are installed between cargo tanks.

Ballast tanks are located outboard of the cargo tanks, in the double bottom space, and deep tanks for-

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