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Triple A Shipyard Gets $2-Million Contract For

Work On Matson's Lurline

Triple A Shipyard of San Fran- cisco has been awarded a $2-mil- lion contract by Matson Naviga- tion Company for alterations and repairs to the 826-foot combina- tion containership/roll-on/roll-off vessel Lurline. Built by Sun Ship- building in 1973 as a RO/RO ship, she returned to Sun in 1981 for conversion into a combo carrier.

The work, which is expected to take six weeks to complete, in- cludes modifications to her 30,000- shp General Electric/Babcock &

Wilcox steam propulsion plant to improve fuel efficiency, and deck alterations aft to provide room for 39 additional 40-foot containers.

Matson operates the Lurline be- tween Oakland and Honolulu.

KSM Fastening Systems

Offers New Brochure On

Stud Welding Technology

KSM Fastening Systems, Inc. of

Moorestown, N.J., has made avail- able an attractive and informative brochure describing its arc stud- welding technology. Arc stud welding was developed as a means of speeding up ship production. In addition to speed, KSM stud-weld-

The Proven

Vacuum Toilet System from ENVIROVAC

The ENVIROVAC record

For ten years ENVIROVAC has been designing and supplying vacuum toilet systems for the U.S. Marine

Industry (Navy, Coast Guard, Corps of Engineers and

Commercial). Our toilets and systems are operating in, or on order for, 155 ships including:

Navy ships • DD963 Spruance class (30 ships) • DD993 Kidd class (4 ships) • T-ARC-7 Zeus (cable repair) • T-AK-(X) Rapid deployment force (8 ships)

Coast Guard ships • WMEC Famous cutter class (13 ships) • WHEC Secretary class (5 ships) • WYTM Bay class (7 ships) • WIX Eagle • WMEC medium endurance cutters (7 ships) • WLB buoy tenders, 180 ft. (36 ships)

ENVIROVAC Vacuum Systems offer 3 pint water flush with 90% reduction in sewage volume and sewage holding weights.

Dependable operation of ENVIROVAC's vacuum toilet was proven with eight months operating history on the USS Kinkaid (DD965). Only one man hour of maintenance per month per ship set was required to keep all 30 ENVIROVAC vacuum toilets 100% opera- tional. The same degree of high reliability is designed and built into the mechanical portion of the system.

No slope piping feature provides wide flexibility in pip- ing design and upward flushing capability.

Topside piping weight reduced 60-80% because smaller diameter piping (2 inch) is used.

Vitreous china toilet meets MIL-S-901C high shock specification. ing systems add a new dimension of precision and strength.

KSM offers a complete fastening service—special pins and studs— plus the most advanced system of arc and CD welding equipment.

With every major project, KSM engineers will assist with an ad- vanced study to be sure their phase of the work meets the customer's highest standards, in the most cost-effective way.

For a free copy of the brochure and more detailed information on

KSM Fastening Systems,

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Transamerica Delaval

Names Sparra As

General Manager

Richard A. Sparra has been named general manager of the turbine and compressor division of

Transamerica Delaval, Inc. As general manager he will oversee activities of the entire division.

Mr. Sparra joined the turbine and compressor division in 1968 as a sales engineer. He has held a va- riety of sales and marketing posi- tions within the division. He also spent a year as assistant general sales manager at Netherlands- based Delaval Stork V.O.F.

He is a graduate of the U.S.

Merchant Marine Academy at

Kings Point, N.Y. and spent four years in the Merchant Marines.

ASTECH Offers Literature

On Lightweight Steel

Honeycomb Structures

ASTECH®'s Marine Products

Division of Santa Ana, Calif, is of- fering new literature on its light- weight structure for the marine industry: NAVSTEEL ™ all-welded honeycomb, and NAVTRUSS™ all- welded steel sandwich panel.

Presented in an attractive me- dia-folder, the publications use text, color illustrations, photos, draw- ings and graphs to fully describe advantages and the weight-saving potential of NAVSTEEL honey- comb panel, a sandwich that has three discrete structural ele- ments—two thin face sheets and a flanged and corrugated honeycomb core. Ease of repairability and maintainability of NAVSTEEL are well illustrated in the literature to show the simplicity of the pro- cedure.

NAVTRUSS, an all-welded steel sandwich panel with two face sheets and a truss-shaped core, is also thoroughly discussed, along with a description of ASTECH's facilities located on 33 acres in

Santa Ana, its design and engi- neering capability, manufacturing capability, quality control proce- dure, etc.

For copies of the literature on

NAVSTEEL and NAVTRUSS and further full information on AS-

TECH Marine Products,

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ENVIROVAC 1260 Turret Drive, Rockford, Illinois 61111 815/654-8300 Toll Free 800/435-6951 (except in IL, HI, AK)