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Southern rivers in the 1800s," ex- plains Dr. Claughton, and has a decor designed to transport passen- gers back in time to an era in history when riverboats were the source of entertainment, fine dining, and es- cape from the fast pace of life."

The first deck houses a catering area, bar/lounge, dining room, and stage for the variety of musical groups and entertainers who appear nightly. The second deck has its own bar, lounge, and dining area.

From this deck passengers can ob- serve the entertainment on the main deck. These two enclosed, air condi- tioned decks provide year-round comfort where passengers can enjoy dining then take moonlight walks on the two upper decks.

The new Queen, which has an 85- foot hull and beam of 35 feet, com- pleted a rigid U.S. Coast Guard inspection prior to entering service, and has the most up-to-date safety features.

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The new 400-passenger Music

City Queen (shown above) was christened recently in her home port of Nashville, Tenn., according to Dr.

Hugh D. Claughton, owner and president of Belle Carol Riverboat

Company of that city. His daughter,

Carol Ann Claughton, was the vessel's sponsor.

The 135-foot luxury riverboat was built by Marine Builders in Utica,

Ind. She sailed down the Ohio River to Paducah, Ky., then up the Cum- berland River to Nashville. The fourth vessel in the company's fleet, the Queen sails on regularly sched- uled cruises from Nashville's Down- town Riverfront Park, which was the original site for docking of steamboats about the turn of the century. "The Music City Queen has been created in the tradition of the stern- wheeler riverboats that dominated

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ASNE And SNAME Meet At

Puget Sound Naval Yard

The final meeting of the Puget

Sound Section of the American So- ciety of Naval Engineers for the 1983-84 season was held at the Offi- cers' Club of Puget Sound Naval

Shipyard. More than 100 members and guests of ASNE and The Socie- ty of Naval Architects and Marine

Engineers gathered for the tradi- tional joint meeting and banquet.

A paper titled "Propeller Design and Evaluation Using the Advanced

Surface Ship Evaluation Tool (AS-

SET)" was presented by Shou-

Kuo Tsao and Charles F. Beyer.

Both authors are employed by the

Federal Systems Group of Boeing

Computer Services in Seattle, and have experience in computer-aided support for the marine field.

COMO Roger B. Home Jr., commander of the Puget Sound

Naval Shipyard, welcomed the group and spoke briefly on the

Navy's need to have the support and professionalism of technical soci- eties such as ASNE and SNAME. 70-Page Color Brochure

And Orderbook Chart

Available From Samsung

Samsung Shipbuilding & Heavy

Industries Co., Ltd. (SHI), one of

Korea's largest industrial groups, is now offering, free a new 70-page color brochure on its modern ship- building and related facilities.

SHI established shipbuilding ac- tivities in 1977 on Koje Island off the southern coast of the Korean

Peninsula. The yard comprises 2.8 million square meters, with 160,000 square meters of it reserved for plant space. Such a vast area lends itself to ideally situated buildings, and makes for an efficient, un- crowded work area. All shops are located in such a manner as to allow ease and efficiency in handling the large variety and volume of equip- ment and materials during routine work procedures.

The ideal layout of the Koje ship- yard, and a production control sys- tem designed to facilitate proce- dures from steel cutting to assem- bling and outfitting, insures effi- ciency, high quality, and cost sav- ings in ship construction.

The recently updated Perform- ance Record is a four-page folder that lists all the vessels completed by SHI thus far, as well as ships on order. It includes vessel types, names of owners, principal particu- lars, engine types, and delivery dates.

The first vessel built at the Koje yard was an anchor-handling/sup- ply craft delivered in July 1980. The most recent delivery was the sophis- ticated containership Humboldt

Express built for Hapag-Lloyd.

For free copies of the SHI bro- chure and Performance Record,

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