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U.S. SHIPBUILDING (continued) flow of merchant ships in for re- pairs, and Navy overhauls. ADD-

SCO also maintains a group of laid- up offshore drilling rigs. This yard holds a tentative contract for the modernization of the SS United

States.

Also in Mobile is Bender Ship- yard, busy with smaller vessel over- hauls for the Navy, and currently converting a dredge to diesel pro- pulsion for the U.S. Army Corps of

Engineers. Further along the Gulf

Coast, in Escapawpa, Miss., is the

Moss Point Marine yard, whose orderbook shows a backlog of sup- ply vessels and tugs for the Gulf.

Two LCUs for the Navy are to be completed early next year.

The Ingalls Shipbuilding divi- sion of Litton Industries in Pasca- goula, Miss., is all Navy work these days. Ingalls is the lead yard for the

Ticonderoga Class (CG-47) Aegis guided missile cruiser. The yard has also overhauled various Navy ships, including the modernization of the battleship USS Iowa.

The only new commercial ship- building order placed last year (and the last to date for a U.S. shipyard) was the $15.8-million contract awarded to McDermott's Ame- lia, La., yard for a 288-foot hopper foot barge to be built by Eastern

Marine.

Avondale Shipyards near New

Orleans was sold last year to its employees under an employees stock ownership plan (ESOP) by parent company Ogden Corpora- tion. This complex of yards is the busiest in the Gulf area, and in- cludes the Harvey Quick Repair yard for offshore vessels, tugs, and barges, and the upper and lower

Avondale yards. Earlier this year,

Avondale's backlog was $1.5 billion and employment was up to about 6,000. In February this year, the yard launched the second of six

Kaiser Class (T-AO-187) fleet oilers for the Navy under contracts total- ing $715.5 million. The yard com- pleted its share of the SL-7 conver- sions for the MSC with the delivery of the third former Sea-Land ship, now the USNS Pollux (T-AKR-291) in March this year.

Todd's repair yard in New Or- leans, plagued by a strike last year, was "idled" in December and put up for sale early this year. The Port of

New Orleans is trying to keep the 15,000-ton drydock that Todd had under lease from the Navy.

Halter Marine's yards are busy with tug and supply boat construc- tion and also built two patrol launches for Nigeria. Under con- dredge. The price included a 200- completed in U.S. shipyards in 1985 (self-propelled, diesel powered) (continued)

Merchant vessels—2,000 DWT and over-

Shipyard

Name of vessel Owner Type

GENERAL DYNAMICS, QUINCY SHIPBUILDING DIVISION, QUINCY, 2nd Lt. John P. Bobo Braintree Ro/Ro

Marine Transport T-AKX

PFC Dewayne Williams Braintree Ro/Ro

Marine Transport T-AKX

Lt. Baldomero Lopez Braintree Ro/Ro

Marine Transport T-AKX

JEFFBOAT, JEFFERSONVILLE, INDIANA

Eastern Sun Sun Transport Tanker

NORFOLK SHIPBUILDING & DRYDOCK CORPORATION, NORFOLK,

Cape May Delaware RY Ferry & Bridge Auth.

TAMPA SHIPYARDS, INC. (AMSHIP), TAMPA, FLORIDA

Gus W. Darnell Ocean Products T-5

Tankers Tanker

Paul Buck Ocean Products T-5

Tankers Tanker

Samuel Cobb Ocean Products T-5

Tankers Tanker

TWIN CITY SHIPYARDS, ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA

Ouachita Gulf Coast Hopper/

Trailing Dredge

TOTAL PRODUCTION IN 1985: 9 VESSELS, 166,479 GROSS TONS,

Hull

No.

Keel laid Launched

Dimensions (ft)

Delivered Length Beam Depth

Gross Dead- Horse- tons weight power

MASSACHUSETTS 61 7/1/83 10/13/84 62 9/1/83 11/12/85 63 3/23/84 6/29/85

VIRGINIA 163 2/2/85 1121 11/14/83 11/12/84 1122 12/2/83 9/17/84 1123 2/8/84 2/4/85 885 8/7/84 5/27/85 164,711 DEADWEIGHT TONS 4/20/85 — 9/11/85 6/8/85 11/15/85 12/23/85 — 671.2 105.6 29.6 34,500 22,454 27,800 671.2 105.6 29.6 34,500 22.454 27,800 671.2 105.6 29.6 34,500 22,454 27,800 280 45 16.5 1,579 3,549 2,900 — — — 2,000 500 8,000 615 90 53.8 18,000 29,500 15,300 615 90 53.8 18,000 29,500 15,300 615 90 53.8 18,000 29,500 15,300 3,400 4,800 8,000

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