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Proposals/Bids (continued)

News, Va., New Orleans, La., Pascagoula,

Miss., and Portsmouth, Va. Offers restricted to holders of Master Agreement for Repair and Alteration of Vessels. Solicitations are being extended to bidders in the East and

Gulf Coast areas of the continental U.S.

Contact: William T. Show (904) 246-5741,

Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and

Repair, Mayport Naval Station, Jacksonville,

Fla. 32228-0158.

BIDS DUE FEBRUARY 15 for the dry- docking selected restricted availability for the USS Spruance (DD-963). Sol. N62670- 91-R-0007. The project will include hull, machinery, electrical, electronics, and pip- ing work. Referenced plans will be available for pick-up at the Office of the Supervisor of

Shipbuilding, Conversion and Repair, Jack- sonville, Fla. This data may also be exam- ined at the Office of the Supervisor of Ship- building, Conversion and Repair, Jackson- ville, Charleston, S.C., Bath, Maine, Boston,

Mass., Brooklyn, N.Y., Newport News, Va.,

New Orleans, La., Pascagoula, Miss., and

Portsmouth, Va. Offers restricted to holders of Master Agreement for Repair and Altera- tion of Vessels. Solicitation is being ex- tended to bidders in the East and Gulf Coast areas of the Continental United States. Con- tact: William T. Show at (904) 246-5741,

Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Conversion and

Repair. P.O. Box 20158, Mayport Naval Sta- tion, Jacksonville, Fla. 32228-0158.

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Litton Wins $28.7-Million

Contract To Overhaul

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Litton's Ingalls Shipbuilding divi- sion, Pascagoula, Miss., has won a $28.7-million U.S. Navy contract for the regular overhaul of the

Spruance-class multimission de- stroyer USS Peterson (DD-969).

The Peterson, in service since 1977, is the seventh of 31 Spruance- class ships built by Ingalls in the 1970s and early 1980s.

The 563-foot, 8,800-ton ship is slated to arrive at Ingalls in March 1991 for the 13-month overhaul.

Work will include combat systems upgrades, general machinery refur- bishment and drydock work on the hull.

ABS Signs Contracts

With U.S. Navy And NSF

A three-year contract with the

U.S. Navy, Naval Sea Systems Com- mand for engineering analysis and survey services totaling $7,600,000 was recently signed by the ABS

Government Services Unit. The contract will include work on com- batant and noncombatant vessels.

ABS work for the Navy in the past has involved research vessels, torpe- do test craft, assault landing vessels, helicopter support vessels, special mission and service ships, tankers, drydocks and other auxiliary-type vessels of all kinds.

A four-year contract from the Na- tional Science Foundation (NSF) was also received by the ABS Gov- ernment Services Unit for a detailed ship inspection program of up to 12 vessels owned by the U.S. Govern- ment and operated by oceanograp- hic research institutions. The pro- gram provides for vessel material- condition surveys on an annual ba- sis covering structural, mechanical, and electrical systems as well as at- sea surveys of scientific instrumen- tation and laboratory equipment.

Persian Gulf Merchant

Shipping Threatened

By Drifting Mines

A new threat to Persian Gulf shipping may be posed by drifting mines near Saudi Arabia's offshore oil fields. Western naval sources are unclear whether the mines are freshly sown or left over from the

Iran-Iraq war.

Sailors in the busy waterway, which is conduit for two-thirds of the Western world's oil, were wor- ried over the discovery of at least six mines off the kingdom's northern gulf coast during December.

Shipping executives said the number of mines and the short peri- od of time in which they were dis- covered suggested they were new.

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