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Ingalls-Built USS Port Royal

Commissioned beam of 55 ft. (17 m). Four gas turbine engines power the 9,500-ton ships to speeds in excess of 30 knots.

For more information from Ingalls,

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Bender Delivers MTU-Powered

Patrol Boat To Colombia carry a crew of five officers and 20 enlisted personnel. Powered by two MTU marine diesel engines, the boats have an endurance of more than 2,000 nautical miles.

The patrol boats are armed with a 25mm cannon on the bow and two 50-caliber machine guns on the flying bridge. The vessels have modern command and control, data processing and equipment monitoring capabilities.

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Queen Of Norway Sponsors

Minehunter Oksoy

Her Majesty the Queen of Norway sponsor- ing the minehunter KNM Oksoy, the first of a series of nine advanced Mine Countermeasure

Vessel (MCMV) Surface Effect Ships (SES) for the Royal Norwegian Navy. The vessel was built by the Kvaerner yard of Mandal. The yard presently has three identical minehunters un- der construction. To theQueen's right isRoger

Sprimont, managing director of Kvaerner

Mandal a.s. th The U.S. Navy commissioned its 27

Ticonderoga (CG 47) class Aegis guided missile cruiser on July 9, when USS Port Royal (CG 73) joined the U.S. Pacific Fleet during commission- ing ceremonies in Savannah, Ga. Captain Nick

Richards, USN, accepted command of CG 73, with Lieutenant CommanderDerek Kemp, USN, as executive officer.

CG 73 is the 19 Aegis cruiser to be delivered to the Navy by Ingalls Shipbuilding division of

Litton Industries in Pascagoula, Miss.

USS Port Royal is the second U.S. Navy ship named to commemorate battles of the American

Revolution and the Civil War fought in the wa- ters of Port Royal Sound and on the adjacent

South Carolina sea islands. The first Port Royal was a wooden, sidewheel gunboat commissioned in 1862. The gunboat Port Royal was decommis- sioned in 1866.

Aegis cruisers are 567 ft. (173 m) long, with a

Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co., Inc. deliv- ered the first of two 116-ft. (35-m) patrol boats it is building for the Colombian Navy's Coast

Guard. The A.R.C. Juan Nepomuceno Eslava began its drug enforcement mission in Colom- bia in June.

The Eslava and its sistership are the first vessels built for Colombia's Coast Guard, a new branch of the Colombian Navy. The two patrol boats will be used for drug detection and en- forcement, search and rescue missions and fish- eries control within Colombia's Economic Ex- clusion Zone.

The vessels have a maximum speed of 28 knots, a maximum displacement of 131 tons and

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