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McDermott To Build

New Paddlewheel Vessel

For Delta Queen

The Delta Queen Steamboat Com- pany, of New Orleans, La., an- nounced that it had entered into an agreement with McDermott Ship- yard, of Morgan City, La., a division of New Orleans-based McDermott,

Inc., to build an overnight passen- ger paddlewheel vessel.

Construction is expected to begin this month and be completed in late 1994.

Delta Queen chairman S. Cody

Engle said, "This agreement repre- sents the important first step in the development of our new vessel. "This project was actively bid by a number of shipyards," Mr. Engle continued. "We selected McDermott because of our confidence in their shipbuilding team, their commit- ment to quality and their commit- ment to deliver the vessel to us at an early date."

McDermott will immediately be- gin working with Delta Queen to review the plans for the vessel and to set the final scope of construc- tion. About 500-McDermott work- ers are expected to be employed on the project.

The proposed vessel, tentatively named the Belle of America, will be one of the largest overnight paddlewheel boats ever constructed.

The paddlewheeler will travel throughout the inland rivers of

America as part of the Delta Queen

Steamboat Company's fleet, which now includes the Delta Queen and

The Mississippi Queen. Delta Queen operates the only overnight passen- ger paddlewheel vessels in North

America.

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Navy Awards Ingalls $27.9 Million Contract

For Aegis Cruiser Support

The Navy has awarded Ingalls

Shipbuilding division of Litton,

Pascagoula, Miss., an additional $27.9 million contract to provide con- tinuing engineering and support ser- vices for the fleet's Ticonderoga- (CG 47) class Aegis guided missile cruiser program.

This funding brings to $258 mil- lion the total amount awarded to

Ingalls since 1981 to provide ser- vices in support of the entire Aegis cruiser class. Ingalls provides the

Navy with engineering design, train- ing support, logistical support, data management and configuration management for the Aegis cruiser program. Additionally, Ingalls pro- vides technical and data support to the Navy's other shipbuilder for Ae- gis cruisers, Bath Iron Works, of

Bath, Maine.

Lead shipbuilder for the Aegis cruiser program, Ingalls was awarded contracts to build 19 of the 27 ships authorized by Congress since the program's inception in 1978.

Sixteen Ingalls-built cruisers have been delivered to the U.S. Navy to date.

Kvaerner Masa-Yards

Wins Cruise Ship Order

From Japan

Kvaerner Masa-Yards, a Helsinki,

Finland-based shipyard belonging to the Norwegian Kvaerner group of companies, has signed a letter-of- intent to build a luxury cruise liner for Nippon Yousen Keisha (NYK) of

Japan.

The letter-of-intent is to be fol- lowed by a contract in the near fu- ture. Kvaerner didn't specify the value of the order, but said it marked a breakthrough for the group's ship- building activities.

According to group president

Diderik Schnitler, "the order will represent one of the first cruise ships built in Europe for delivery to Ja- pan."

The ship will be constructed at the group's yard in the Finnish town of Abo. It will have capacity for 960 passengers and is scheduled to be in service by the spring of 1995. 8 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News

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