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ON THE

COVER

COVER PHOTOS: clockwise from top center: USCG 1301 (Bollin- ger); Andrew Fletcher (Offshore

Shipbuilding); Doc Tide (Bender

Shipbuilding); Colonel (Moss

Point Marine); Catamarin (Ni- chols Brothers); TWR (Marinette

Marine). Center: Catalina Ex- press (Westport Shipyard).

Outstanding Inland/Offshore

Vessels & Rigs of 1985

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A WO Perspective

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Post Conference Report

SNAME ANNUAL MEETING

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Todd Unit Merges With

Aro Corporation To Form

Wholly Owned Subsidiary

Todd Shipyards Corporation, headquartered in New York City, has announced that Todd Acquisi- tion Corporation, its wholly owned subsidiary, has filed a Certificate of

Ownership and Merger of Todd Ac- quisition with and into The Aro

Corporation and making Aro a wholly owned subsidiary of Todd

Shipyards. The merger followed the purchase by Todd Acquisition of more than 94 percent of Aro's out- standing common stock pursuant to a tender offer.

Todd Shipyards, the nation's largest independent shipbuilder and ship repair company, operates yards in or near Seattle, Los Angeles, San

Francisco, Galveston, and New Or- leans.

Bethlehem Steel Selects

Delaval R5 Engines For

Two New Navy Vessels

Two 16-cylinder "Enterprise" R«5 medium-speed engines burning heavy fuel will provide the main propulsion for each of two new oceanographic research ships now under construction by Bethlehem

Steel Corp., Sparrows Point, Md.

The contract with Transamerica

Delaval, Inc., Oakland, Calif., in- cludes the four R5-V16 variable- speed, direct-reversing engines rated at 12,500 horsepower each, two combining reduction gear as- semblies and supporting auxiliary equipment. The ships, designated

T-AGS-39 and -40, will be operated by the Military Sealift Command in a fleet support role for the U.S.

Navy, replacing older vessels.

The selection of the heavy-fuel engines is indicative of the Navy's recent emphasis on greater fleet fuel efficiency and lower fuel costs. De- liveries of the engine sets are sched- uled for July and November of this year.

The R5 is Delaval's latest line of

January 1, 1986 diesel/heavy fuel and dual fuel en- gines, producing up to 850 bhp per cylinder on inexpensive heavy fuel oil at 514 rpm. Transamerica Delav- al is the wholly owned subsidiary of

Transamerica Corp. of San Francis- co.

For more information on Trans- america Delaval's 16-cylinder R5 engines,

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Wilton-Fijenoord Wins $13.6-Million Conversion

Wilton-Fijenoord b.v., Schiedam,

Netherlands, has won an extensive conversion order for the Baltic Fer- ry and Nordic Ferry from Townsend

Thoresen.

The 6,455-ton vessels will be con- verted to combined passenger/cargo ships for service between Zeebrugge,

Belgium, and Felixstowe, England.

The work comprises completely new accommodations for 650 passen- gers.

The order, valued at 40-million

Dutch Guilders (approximately $13.6 million), will give work to both the company's Repair and New- building Departments, and will be executed prior to the start of the 1986 passenger season. s'S V

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