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$14.6 Million In Orders

For 'Flying Cats'

To Kvaerner Yards

Seattle-based Clipper Naviga- tion has placed a $7.3 million order with Kvaerner Fjellstrand of Norway for a 40-meter Flying

Cat design catamaran. The cat is scheduled for a March 1993 de- livery.

Clipper Navigation plans to op- erate the 324-passenger catama- ran between Seattle and Victoria.

A second 40-meter Flying Cat high-speed catamaran has been built by Kvaerner's Omastrand yard in western Norway for ferry service between Arhus and

Kalundborg in Denmark. The $7.3 million high-speed vessel will provide three round trips per day from Arhus for KatExpress, an operating subsidiary of Kvaerner

Fjellstrand Shipping.

Power will be provided by two

MTU 16V 396 TE74L diesels with two KaMeWa model S 71 II waterjets and two ZF marine gears. Auxiliary power will be supplied by two MTU 6R 099 TA 31 diesels.

Other features on the catama- ran will include: a Motion Damp- ing System for riding control;

Furuno and Sperry Rascar ra- dars; and Anschutz gyrocompass.

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Thordon Bearings Wins $2.1 Million Contract For

Canadian Frigate Project

New Brunswick, Canada-based

Saint John Shipbuilding, Ltd., has awarded Thordon Bearings, Inc., of Burlington, Ontario, Canada, a $2.1 million propeller shaft bear- ings contract for the Canadian

Navy's Patrol Frigate Project,

Canada's first new warships in nearly 20 years.

Thordon will supply low fric- tion, long life bearings for use in

HMCS Halifax and other ships in the frigate program. The Halifax is the first of 12 new frigates, which are among the most tech- nologically advanced in the world.

Saint John Shipbuilding is the prime contractor for the $6.2 bil- lion contract and is building nine of the vessels. "We're extremely proud of the fact that Thordon's advanced bear- ing technology was specified for the Halifax and its sister ships," said David Read, Thordon

Bearing's president. "Thordon is rapidly becoming the quiet run- ning bearing of choice for navies around the world."

Thordon is a very hard, tough, self-lubricating synthetic polymer alloy with a proven record for en- durance under adverse operating conditions. It is used by navies, coast guards, work boats, fishing vessels and merchant ships in over 40 countries.

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MHI Receives Engine Order

From HDW Shipyard

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries,

Ltd., (MHI) has received an order for four MHI large-bore UE marine diesel engines from Howaldtswerke

Deutsche Werft A.G. (HDW), the largest shipyard in Germany. These

UE engines will be used as main engines onboard four 2,784-TEU container ships, which HDW is building for Norasia Lines, Ltd.,

Switzerland.

The 7UEC85LSC seven-cylinder engines ordered by HDW provide a maximum power output of 37,100 hp at an engine speed of 102 rpm.

The delivery of the engines will start in August 1993 and be completed in

May 1994.

The 7UEC85LSC, MHI's newest

UE engine, is designed to be a high- speed marine engine by making the piston stroke shorter and thus suit- able for the main engines of fast container ships.

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' UE marine diesel engines,

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