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Glomar Baltic I (continued from page 23)

The Glomar Baltic I is fitted with the Super 300's optional leg length of 515 feet (the standard length is 448 feet).

In this enchanced configuration, the rig can drill in 350 feet of water with 100-knot winds and 55-foot- high waves.

Like the Gorilla rigs, the Super 300 utilized the Marathon LeTour- neau Slotilever™, which allows drill- ing in both the slot and cantilever positions. With the derrick package over the slot, the rig's drilling mode and survival mode are the same.

The new rig's hull is 270 feet long by 268 feet wide by 28 feet deep. It is designed for a normal elective variable load capacity of 4,250 tons plus 650 tons derrick pull-in load.

The Super 300 is classed + A1 by the American Bureau of Shipping and built in accordance with the

Mobil Offshore Drilling Unit Regu- lations of the U.S. Coast Guard.

When required by the customer, the

Super 300 can be constructed to meet the requirements of the U.K.

Department of Energy, the Nether- lands Department of Mines, and other regulatory bodies.

HALEAKALA

McDermott

A unique self-loading/unloading container barge, the Haleakala, was delivered to Matson Navigation

Company recently by McDermott,

Inc., followed soon after by a sister barge, the Mauna Loa. Each barge is capable of carrying 216 containers of various sizes, including dry and refrigerated boxes and auto frames, plus 1,700 long tons of molasses in bulk.

Total cost of each barge, which has a beam of 64.5 feet, was about $9.5 million, including the revolving container-handling cranes that will travel atop massive steel girders supported by pillars rising from the deck. The cranes were built in Ja- pan under a separate contract, and will be installed when the barges arrive in Honolulu following a 7,200- mile tandem tow that is expected to take about 34 days.

Innovations designed by Matson engineers include adjustable cell guides for securing containers and a remote-controlled stern thruster to aid in docking.

The new barges were built in three sections at different McDer- mott yards—the bow sections in

New Iberia, La., the stern sections with machinery at Morgan City, La., and the midbodies at Gulfport,

Miss., with final assembly at Mor- gan City.

The Haleakala and Mauna Loa will operate in Matson's "Neighbor

Islands" feeder service between

Honolulu and Hilo, on the Island of

Hawaii; Kahului in Maui; and Na- wilwili in Kauai.

KLONDIKE

Nichols Brothers

A hallmark event for Nichols

Brothers Boat Builders of Freeland,

Wash., was the recent christening of (continued on page 26)

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