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General Ship Repair

To Build Tender/Breaker

Under $921,320 Contract

The General Ship Repair Corpo- ration, Baltimore, Md., recently was awarded a $921,320 contract by the

State of Maryland's Department of

Natural Resources to construct an 80-foot-long steel buoy tender/ice- breaker.

The new vessel, which is sched- uled for delivery in December 1988, is custom-designed, combining two vessels in one. The new combination vessel will be able to operate as a buoy tender in 3 feet 6 inches of water and as an icebreaker in 4 feet of water.

A special design feature of the new vessel is its propeller tunnels.

The design concept allows the vessel to break ice up to 12 inches thick without damage to the propellers or the propeller shafts. The new vessel will be based in Matapeake, Mary- land, and will be powered by twin- screw diesel engines capable of gen- erating 700 horsepower.

The General Ship Corporation provides a full range of services for all kinds of vessels including new construction, repair, and conver- sion. The company offers 24-hour service anywhere in port or at sea.

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Carnival Acquires Majority

Of Admiral, RCCL

For $550 Million

Carnival Cruise Lines, Miami,

Fla., recently paid about $550 mil- lion to four shipping companies to acquire majority shares in both Ad- miral Cruises Inc. and Royal Carib- bean Cruise Line (RCCL). The deal makes Carnival the world's largest operator of cruise ships.

Under the terms of the deal, Car- nival acquired about 70 percent of the shares of RCCL and Admiral from Bermuda-based Gotaas Larsen

Shipping Corporation; Effoa-Fin- land Steamship Co., Helsinki, Fin- land; I.M. Skaugen A/S, Oslo, Nor- way; and Johnson Line AB, Stock- holm, Sweden.

Of the original partners in RCCL, only Anders Wilhelmsen re- mains. Under terms of the partner- ship, Anders Wilhelmsen has the right to exercise an option to buy the shares of his partners. At pre- sent, however, this seems a remote possibility.

According to Mickey Arison, president and chief executive of

Carnival, the three cruise lines will not be merged and will be operated as separate brands. Carnival plans to introduce a fourth "brand name" in the future with its Project Tiffa- ny program—the construction of three 700-passenger luxury cruise liners.

At present, the company operates seven cruise ships and has three 70,000-grt, 2,500-passenger super- liners on order at Wartsila Marine of Finland. The newbuildings, the

Fantasy, Ecstacy and Sensation, are scheduled for delivery from 1989- 1991.

Royal Caribbean Cruise j_mie, which recently put the world's larg- est cruise ship—the 74,000-grt Sov- ereign of the Seas—in service, oper- ates a total of five ships.

Admiral operates three ships and has a 44,300-grt, 2,000-passenger liner on order at Alsthom's Chan- tiers de l'Atlantique, St. Nazaire,

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Ships

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Jubilee

Mardi Gras 'Sensation

Tropicale

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Nordic Prince 1,038

Song of America 1,575

Song of Norway 1,196

Sovereign of the Seas 2,600

Sun Viking 74

Admiral Cruise Lines

Azure Seas 780

Emerald Seas 98

Stardancer 1,00 'Luxury liner 2,000 'Denotes under construction 8 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News