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Fifth Aegis Cruiser 'Bunker Hill'

Commissioned In Boston Ceremony

The U.S. Navy's fifth Aegis guid- ed-missile cruiser built by Ingalls

Shipbuilding division of Litton was commissioned USS Bunker Hill (CG-52) in Boston, just a short dis- tance from the Revolutionary War battle site for which the ship is named.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) was the principal speaker at the ceremony held in the

Charleston Naval Shipyard, during which the Bunker Hill was commis- sioned into the Pacific Fleet. Other speakers at the ceremony included

Vice Adm. William H. Rowden,

USN, Commander, Naval Sea Sys- tems Command; Vice Adm. Joseph

Metcalf III, USN, Deputy Chief of

Naval Operations, Surface Warfare;

Vice Adm. George W. Davis Jr.,

USN, Commander Naval Surface

Force, Pacific Fleet; and Jerry St.

Pe, president of Ingalls Shipbuild- ing.

The Bunker Hill is the first U.S. surface warship to be equipped with the below-deck, advanced MK 41

Vertical Launching System (VLS), a multiwarfare missile-launching sys- tem capable of striking targets in the air, on and under the ocean sur- face, and on land. The cruiser is also equipped with the advanced Aegis weapons system, the most capable shipboard air defense radar system in the world.

Four General Electric gas turbine engines, each with an output of 20,000 shp, will drive the ship at speeds in excess of 30 knots. The

CG-52 carries a complement of 29 officers and 360 crewmen.

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The modules were moved by crawlers over a specially prepared roadway to a loading dock leading onto the barges as each was positioned on Dry Dock 4.

Drydock Used To Load Alaskan

Modules Out Of Portland Shipyard

Seven Alaskan oil modules, con- structed for ARCO Oil and Gas

Company by Daniel International at the Portland Ship Repair Yard, were loaded aboard three ocean barges last week utilizing the ship- yard's huge Dry Dock 4.

The modules, the heaviest total- ing 2,800 tons, will be sealifted to

Prudhoe Bay for ARCO's Lisburne

Oil Field along with other modules constructed at the Oregon ports of

Coos Bay and Astoria.

The Portland modules were con- structed at a 24-acre site at the ship- yard and moved by 2,000-ton-capac- ity crawlers over a specially pre- pared 3,000-foot roadway to a load- ing dock leading onto the 400-foot- long barges as each was positioned on Dry Dock 4.

The method, believed to be the first such loading effort utilizing a drydock, was faster and more cost effective than the dead-lift practice normally used for loading oil mod- ules.

The Port of Portland had allowed four days for loading the seven large modules, and the operation was completed on schedule.

Crowley Maritime Corporation is handling the sealift of Oregon-built modules as well as other modules constructed on the West Coast.

Dry Dock 4, at 982 feet long and 185 feet wide, is the largest floating drydock on the West Coast and third largest in the U.S. It is used for repairing the majority of the

Alaskan Oil Fleet.

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Villani Named Operations

Manager-North America For

Zim-American Israeli Line

Capt. Yoel Yanai, senior vice president of operations for Zim-

American Israeli Shipping Compa- ny, one of the largest steamship companies in the world, has an- nounced the promotion of Andrew

Villani to marine operations man- ager for North America. He joined

Zim in 1979 as assistant manager of marine operations for North Ameri- ca. He is graduate of the U.S. Mari- time Academy.

Zim operates more than 70 vessels calling at some 250 ports worldwide.

Zim-American is the largest of four divisions that comprise Zim Israel

Navigation Company.

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