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Sea-Land Purchases

Five USL Containerships

For $80 Million

Sea-Land Corporation recently paid $80 million at auction for five former United States Lines (USL) containerships. Sea-Land outbid the Maritime Administration for the vessels, which were sold by the

U.S. Marshal as part of the Chap- ter 11 bankruptcy proceedings for

USL.

The USL containerships involved in the auction were: the American

Puritan, built in 1980; the American

Pioneer, built in 1979; the American

Entente and American Envoy, both built in 1972; and the American

Merchant, built in 1973. The first four containerships have 1,708-TEU capacities, while the last has a 964-

TEU carrying capacity.

Sea-Land bid $26.5 million for the

Puritan, $24.5 million for the Pio- neer, $12 million each for the En- tente and Envoy, and $5 million for the Merchant.

The company plans to use the five ships in its trans-Pacific trade routes, in a loop from California to

Hawaii, Guam and Taiwan. —pAy.

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Artist's conception of the S.S. Monterey after the completion of her conversion at Wartsila-

Helsinki. The U.S.-flag ship will be delivered in the spring of this year.

Transformation Of S.S. Monterey

Into Luxury Cruise Liner

Underway At Wartsila-Helsinki

Commander Bearings Offer

Excellent Performance

In Harsh Environments —Literature Available

According to Jim Murphy, se- nior vice president of Georgia

Transporter, Panama City, Fla.,

Cutless® Commander™ water-lubri- cated bearings from L.Q. Moffitt offer a distinct improvement over some other bearings in the gritty, silty waterways that his pushboats operate.

Georgia Transporter operates a fleet of seven pushboats and haulers on the Appalachicola River and oth- er inland waterways as far as New

Orleans. According to Mr. Mur- phy, these rivers are gritty and full of silt giving bearings a severe test, especially in vessels designed to handle heavy service.

Cutless Commander water-lubri- cated bearings were selected for

Georgia Transporter's new push- boat Goldilocks when she was com- missioned last year. The L.Q. Mof- fitt composite shell bearings were selected for the Goldilocks, after an older sister ship, the Nancy Jane, performed well with Commander bearings. After four months of oper- ation on the gritty river, the Nancy

Jane's bearings showed no signs of wear when inspected.

The performance of the bearings in the Nancy Jane was one of the major reasons that they were select- ed for the Goldilocks, according to

Mr. Murphy.

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The rebirth of the passenger/car- go ship S.S. Monterey, idled since 1978, as a modern 660-passenger luxury cruise liner is in full swing at

Wartsila Marine Industries' Hel- sinki yard.

The Helsinki yard is performing all the outfitting and interior work on the U.S. flagship, which includes the repair and upgrading of existing machinery and equipment, and in- stallation of new sewage and waste- handling plants, a bilge water sepa- rator and bowthruster. Addition- ally, Wartsila is refurbishing the

Monterey's existing passenger cab- ins, as well as installing 127 new cabins, some of which are suites and minisuites. The crew compartments are also being modernized and 23 new cabins are being installed to handle the expected complement of 265. Space for the new cabins was created by the enlargement of the superstructure to the fore and aft of the ship. Some of the new cabins

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In addition, five conference rooms will be added, along with the mod- ernization of the vessel's lounge, cinema and galley. Other new fea- tures of the Monterey will include an all-day dining facility, boutique, deck/sport facilities, swimming pool and jacuzzis.

The conversion work on the Mon- terey is being performed under a contract with Aloha Pacific Cruises

Inc., Alexandria, Va.

Last year, under a subcontract from Wartsila, Tacoma Boatbuild- ing Co., Tacoma, Wash., performed structural modifications and repairs to the hull and superstructure of the 563-foot Monterey in accordance with the Jones Act. The Jones Act specifies that all structural modifi- cations of a U.S.-flag vessel must be carried out in the U.S., in order to keep its U.S. coastline trading pro- visions. The work performed at

Tacoma involved the addition of 17 modules, renewal of steel, tank tops and bulkheads and replacement of thin deck plate. Northwest Marine

Iron Works, Portland, Ore., pro- vided shell plate for the conversion.

Tacoma completed the work in early

October, and the Monterey was towed to Helsinki for her outfitting and interior work.

Upon her delivery in the spring of 1988, the refurbished Monterey will be operated by Aloha Pacific Inc. in the interisland Hawaiian cruise market.

For free literature on the ship- building, ship-repairing and con- verting services and capabilities of

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Krupp MaK Offers 28-Page

Brochure On Dicare

Engine Diagnosis System

Krupp Mak Maschinenbau

GmbH of Kiel, West Germany, has published a 28-page brochure that describes the Dicare engine diagno- sis PC software system development by diesel experts of Krupp Mak.

Dicare can only be used for Krupp

MaK diesel engines.

The publication explains that the

Dicare system offers, in connection

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