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Astilleros Espanoles Delivers

Marie Knutsen, A 124,000-dwt

Double-Bottom Shuttle Tanker

Electronics equipment onboard includes: Furuno FM 7000 VHF ra- dio, M1940 radar and LC 90 loran;

SAIT TRP 3000 VHF radio and TRP 87515 SSB radio; a Thomson Trepat

AE 180 compass; Simrad Albatros

DPS 702 Dynamic Positioning Sys- tem; and Sperry SRP 686 autopilot.

The ship was finished with coat- ings from Hempel.

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The Marie Knutsen, a double-bottom shuttle tanker from Astilleros Espanoles.

Built by Astilleros Espanoles' estao factory and delivered to [nutsen Boyelaster I of Norway in )ecember 1992, the Marie Knutsen 3 a 265-meter, 124,000-dwt double- iottom shuttle tanker.

The vessel is powered by a MAN 5&W 6S70MC diesel engine, which :an generate 20,000 bhp at 88 rpm.

The diesel power plant drives a :unial-made, controllable pitch pro- peller.

Propulsion and maneuverability is aided by three C.P.P.-supplied thrusters, two fore, each driven by a 1,600-kW engine, and one aft, driven by a 1,000-kW engine.

Four Alconza, 1,200-kW genera- tors provide the ship with electrical power. Each is driven by Bergen

KRG-8 type, 1,800-bhp engines.

The Marie Knutsen is equipped with two combined windlasses, five mooring winches and two chain stop- pers, supplied by Aquamaster

Rauma, Rapola and Navacel.

MARIE KNUTSEN

Equipment List

Main engines MAN B&W

Thrusters C.P.P.

Generator engines. Bergen

Engine controls D.N.V.

Steering controls... Porsgrunn

Deck machinery Aquamaster Rauma,

Rapola, and Navacel

Shafting Ulstein

Coatings Hempel

VHF radios Furuno

SSB radios SAIT

Compass Thomson

Autopilot Sperry

DPS Simrad Albatros

Bow Loading System Mitsui

Navy Awards Litton $15.5 Million Contract

For Aegis Support

The U.S. Navy has awarded

Litton's Ingalls Shipbuilding divi- sion, Pascagoula, Miss., a $15.5 mil- lion contract modification to con- tinue providing engineering and planning support to the Navy's

Arleigh Burke- (DDG 51) class Ae- gis guided missile destroyer pro- gram.

Ingalls currently has construc- tion contracts for nine of the 504- foot, 8,300-ton warships. The first

Ingalls-built Aegis destroyer, USS

Barry (DDG 52), was commissioned into active service in December 1992.

The Ingalls support contract is now in the fourth element of a six- year program which began in De- cember 1988.

The program has a total projected value of about $120 million. Ap- proximately 300 Ingalls employees perform technical, engineering and design tasks under the contract.

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