Page 10: of Maritime Reporter Magazine (December 15, 1984)

Liner 'Royal Princess'

Coated Throughout By

International Paint

International Paint Marine Coat- ings, through its Finnish licensee

Teksno-Maalit Oy, was selected to supply all coatings for both the interior and exterior of one of the largest cruise liners ever built—the 45,000-gross-ton Royal Princess, built in Finland by Oy Wartsila AB for P&O Cruises Limited.

In all, 130,000 liters of several dif- ferent paint types were applied, al- most half of this being used for internal decorative purposes. Above water, the hull and superstructure are coated with a chlorinated rubber system, as are the small areas of deck that are not planked.

However, it is below the waterline that the technical sophistication is greatest. The vessel has a three-coat vinyl tar anticorrosive scheme fol- lowed by two 125 micron coats of

International Paint's second gener- ation self-polishing copolymer anti- fouling, Intersmooth HiSOL 200 se- ries.

Following completion of the outer hull paint application, a full hull roughness survey was carried out and the average hull roughness gwumiuiii

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DIVISION (AHR) was measured as 94 microns.

Considering that reasonable new- building practice might be expected to provide a ship with an AHR of around 125 microns, it can be seen that the Royal Princess has started life with a very smooth underwater hull.

The intact paint will become even smoother during service and the fouling control provided by Inter- smooth HiSOL will ensure that she performs very efficiently during her first two-year in-service period.

Hull maintenance at her first dry- docking will be minimal. Following high-pressure freshwater hosing, she will simply be "topped-up" with the required Intersmooth HiSOL recoat specification to restore the

HiSOL system to the original thick- ness and equip her for another two- year in-service period. The Royal

Princess has started life smoothly where smoothness matters most, on the underwater hull.

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Techplan Awarded $5.9-Million Contract

Techplan Corporation, Maple

Shade, N.J., is being awarded a $5,906,377 cost-plus-fixed-fee con- tract for technical, engineering and management services to implement the Ship Alteration Management

Information System (SAMIS) mod- ernization and to maintain SAMIS data during transition. Work will be performed in Arlington, Va., and is expected to be completed Septem- ber 30, 1987. One hundred and nine bids were solicited and two offers were received. This contract is sub- ject to the availability of funds for

FY-85. The Naval Sea Systems

Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.

A.L. Don Awarded $214,000

Government Contract

It was recently announced that the U.S. Government has awarded the A.L. Don Company a $214,000 contract.

The contract for debarcation lad- ders, was commissioned by Navy

Ships Parts Control according to

A.L. Don president, Peter Gron- beck. "We're delighted by this order,"

Mr. Gronbeck said. "The govern- ment has asked us to deliver a total of 168 ladders of various sizes to a number of locations. We will fulfill that order well in advance of the short six-month period stipulated by Navy Ships Parts Control."

A.L. Don Co., a division of Steel- stran Industries is located in Matta- wan, N.J. and has a West Coast office in Berkeley, Calif.

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