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Re-Definition Of Passenger

Will Affect Inspections

The Coast Guard will support a legislative initiative to re-define the term "passenger" to exclude "indus- trial workers." The primary impact of this would be to bring Subchapter "T" crewboats and utility boats un- der inspection as Subchapter "L" vessels. This would effectively con- solidate the inspection requirements for all offshore service vessels into one subchapter of the Coast Guard regulations, and would ease some of the more restrictive requirements for passenger vessels currently in force.

ASTM To Develop Tanker

Escort Criteria For USCG

The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), on behalf of the Coast Guard, will develop guide- lines on selection criteria for tanker escort vessels. A special task force will operate under the guidance of

ASTM's F-25 Shipbuilding Commit- tee.

The ASTM guidelines will be used in conjunction with the Coast

Guard's requirements for tug es- corts in certain environmentally sen- sitive areas, such as Prince William

Sound, Alaska and Puget Sound,

Wash. The task force slated to give preliminary recommendations to the

USCG soon. A final proposal for review is due by June 1993.

Ingalls Launches First

Of Three Israeli Corvettes

The Ingalls-built SA'AR 5 corvette 'Eilat.'

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Litton's Ingalls Shipbuilding di- vision, of Pascagoula, Miss., launched the first of three SA'AR 5

Class corvettes being built for Is- rael.

Ship's sponsor Lea Rabin, wife of Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak

Rabin, broke a bottle of champagne across the new ship's bow and offi- cially named her "Eilat."

Other ceremony participants in- cluded: Alton J. Brann, president and CEO of Litton; Jerry St. Pe', president of Ingalls Shipbuilding and senior vice president of Litton; and the commander-in-chief of the

Israeli Navy and the Israeli ambas- sador.

Ingalls began fabrication work on the Eilat on September 5, 1991.

At 281 feet long, with a 36-foot beam, the SA'AR 5 corvette presents un- precedented capabilities in a war- ship of its size. Twin MTU/12V1163

TB82 diesel main engines power the 1,200-ton ship during most opera- tions, with a General Electric

LM2500 gas turbine engine (2,500- hp) available for stable high-speed operations over 33 knots.

The ship's integrated combat sys- tem uses optical and radar surveil- lance and weapons systems to counter air, surface and subsurface threats. Missiles on board include the new Israeli vertically-launched

Barak anti-air, the long-range U.S.

Harpoon and the short-range Israeli

Gabriel anti-surface systems.

Eilat will also be equipped with torpedo launchers, a Phalanx Close- in Weapons System (CIWS), a heli- copter with hanger, torpedo and elec- tronic decoy systems and design fea- tures to reduce radar, infrared and noise signatures. Ingalls is building the corvettes using modular tech- niques pioneered and refined at the shipyard during two decades of as- sembly line construction of advanced

U.S. Navy warships. This modular process is supported by an extensive

Computer-Aided Design/Computer-

Aided Manufacturing (CAD/CAM) program. The Eliat corvette is re- ported to be the world's first surface combatant to be designed entirely using CAD. The CAD equipment also produces magnetic tapes which direct the operation of manufactur- ing equipment utilized to cut steel plates, cut and bend pipe and form sheetmetal assemblies.

Upon completion of post-launch outfitting, testing and crew train ing, Eilat will sail for her homepori in Haifa, Israel, early next year.

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