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PVC-coated steel sheets backed by a 15-mm layer of mineral wool, with a 40-mm air gap between. This insures the best possible sound insu- lation between cabins.

The main navigation equipment in the spacious wheelhouse is con- centrated in a cockpit type desk, making it possible for one man to control the navigation of the ship in a sitting position. The radar system is from Racal-Decca; it comprises one 10-cm ARPA radar that is inter- switched with a 3-cm true motion unit.

The ARPA radar antenna is in- stalled on the mast atop the wheel- house, with the 3-cm antenna on the radar mast on the forecastle deck. In addition, there is a third indepen- dent 10-cm radar with a true motion display and an antenna atop the wheelhouse. Other navigation equipment includes a Raytheon

DSN-450 dual-axis doppler speed log, a Simrad ED 61 echo sounder with a digital repeater, and an An- schutz Standard 4 gyrocompass.

The partially enclosed lifeboats supplied by Fiskars have a total capacity of 536 persons. The 62 dav- it-launchable life rafts supplied by

Viking each have a capacity of 25 persons. All lifeboat and life raft davits are equipped with a remote control for the brake.

For additional information on

Valmet's shipbuilding facilities and capabilities,

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BIRKA PRINCESS

Major Suppliers

Main engines (4) Wartsila-Vasa

Reduction gears (2) Valmet

Propellers (2) KaMeWa

Machinery control system . . . Valmet

Steering gear Tenfjord

Bow thruster KaMeWa

Stern tubes Centromor

Auxiliary diesels Wartsila-Vasa

Generators Kymi-Stromberg

Anchors .... Hollandse Constructie

Chains Ljusne Katting

Shaft seals HDW

Sewage disposal plant .... Deerberg

Vacuum toilets Evac-Wartsila

Boilers, mooring winches Rauma-Repola

Air conditioning system Nordish Ventilator

Reefer plant for

AC system .... Stal Refrigeration

Air compressors Hamworthy

Separators, heat exchangers Alfa-Laval

Valves Wouter Witzel

Centrifugal pumps Maskinfabriken Iron

Oil pumps IMO

Lube oil filters Boll & Kirch

Couplings Vulkan

Elevators Valmet

Newport News Receives $12.5-Million Contract

For USS Enterprise Work

Newport News Shipbuilding and

Drydock Company, Newport News,

Va., is being awarded a $12,521,311 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for ad- vance planning and preparation for the complex overhaul of the USS

Enterprise (CVN-65). Work will be performed in Newport News, and is expected to be completed Septem- ber 30, 1986. The Naval Sea Sys- tems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024- 86-C-2078).

American Management

Now Provides Services

For Commercial Ships

For more than a decade, Ameri- can Management System, Inc. (AMS), headquartered in Arlington,

Va., has provided engineering, tech- nical, logistics, and maintenance support services to the U.S. Navy.

The company is now offering the full range of its services to commer- cial as well as military ship opera- tors. This includes machinery dia- gnostics, machinery condition as- sessments, spare parts control, over- haul planning, computer applica- tions, training, surveys, and inspec- tions.

Central to its maintenance plan- ning approach is AMS's diesel en- gine analysis service, an electronic engine tuning process for prevent- ing expensive downtime, optimizing fuel efficiency, and decreasing maintenance and operating costs.

Commercial and military ship oper- ators can use this service for peak performance tuning and after en- gine overhauls to certify the quality of the work performed, resulting in substantial cost savings and im- proved vessel operations.

For additional information on the

AMS diesel analysis process,

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FELS Awarded $25-Million

Contract To Build Six

Seagoing Hopper Barges

Far East Levingston Shipbuilding

Ltd. (FELS) of Singapore has been awarded a $25-million contract for the construction of six seagoing hopper barges for Magnum Interna- tional Trading (Pte.) Ltd. of India.

Each barge will have an overall length of about 210 feet and dead- weight of 1,950 tons.

The contract calls for the design, engineering, construction, outfit, and testing of the vessels before delivery to India. Further work will be done on the vessels in India before their final delivery to V/O

Sudoimport of the USSR, the ulti- mate owner.

Norfolk Shipbuilding Gets $16.2-Million Contract

For Iwo Jima' Overhaul

Norfolk Shipbuilding and Dry- dock Corporation, Norfolk, Va., is being awarded a $16,167,222 firm- fixed-price contract for the regular overhaul of the USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2). Work will be performed in

Norfolk, and is expected to be com- pleted February 16, 1987. Twenty- one bids were solicited and eight offers were received. The Naval Sea

Systems Command, Washington,

D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-85-H-8195).

Two More Firms Approve

Use Of Ameroid® OWS —Literature Available

Drew Ameroid Marine has re- ceived two new approvals for the use of Ameroid® OWS quick separating degreaser. Ameroid OWS is a prod- uct that has exceptional cleaning properties, breaks quickly, and does not harm the operation of oily water separators or oil alarms required un- der the MARPOL regulation addition, Ameroid OWS quick sep; rating degreaser reduces cleanin time, is cost-effective, and is easy ti use.

The two new approvals come from the oily water separator manufac- turers Sigma Systems of Chester

Springs, Pa., and Facet of Tulsa,

Okla. Besides these two companies,

Ameroid OWS quick separating de- greaser is recommended and/or ap- proved by the following manufac- turers of separators and bilge alarms: Biospherics, Inc.; Butter- worth Systems (UK) Ltd.; Hamwor- thy Engineering Ltd.; Italgestra

S.P.A.; National Fluid Separators,

Inc.; Nelson Division, Nelson Indus- tries; Separation and Recovery Sys- tems, Inc.; Serep; and World Water

Systems.

Ameroid OWS is normally avail- able in 25 liter pails and 120 liter drums worldwide.

For additional information and free literature,

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Control Data Receives $81.2-Million Contract

From NAVSEA

Control Data Corporation, Min- neapolis, Minn., is being awarded an $81,226,432 firm-fixed-price con- tract for AN/UYH-3(V) magnetic disk memory recorder-reproducer systems. Work will be performed in

Minneapolis, and is expected to be completed in January 1990. The

Naval Sea Systems Command,

Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00024-86-C-5201).

MarAd Invites Proposals

To Provide Vessel For

Schoolship Conversion

The Maritime Administration has invited proposals from interested parties to provide a vessel suitable for conversion to a U.S.-flag school- ship. It would replace the govern- ment-owned training ship Empire

State, which is now operated by the

State University of New York Mari- time College of Fort Schuyler. That vessel was delivered in 1952 as a combination passenger-cargo ship.

MarAd offers two options in re- gard to the replacement ship's con- dition and place of delivery: (1) A vessel "suitable for conversion" to be delivered to the James River

Reserve Fleet at Newport News,

Va., or (2) a vessel "in a fully certifi- cated and operational condition" delivered to Fort Schuyler.

The specification requires that the ship be suitable for transporting and berthing 800 persons, having its keel laid after December 31, 1960, and be between 450 and 600 feet in overall length. Offers to provide a suitable vessel must be received at

MarAd by 10 am (EDT) July 16, 1986.

For additional information on this proposal, contact Tim Roark at MarAd, (202) 382-0353.

VALMET CORPORATION'S NEW BARGE-CARRYING

CRUISE VESSEL DESIGN is shown in this artist's conception. The basic idea of the unique hybrid ship is to maintain regular cargo service in the Caribbean area as well as to carry cruise passengers. According to

Valmet marketing director Mikko Niini, with the market for conventional cruise ships soon to be saturated, operators will have to look for new com- petitive solutions such as this combination carrier.

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