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Textron Marine & Land

Systems Wins $23 Million

Navy Contract

Textron Marine & Land Systems (TM&LS), New Orleans, was awarded a U.S. Navy contract val- ued at approximately $23 million.

The contract is for the Mid Life

Availability (MLA) ofthe U.S. Navy's

Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC).

The contract consists of all work associated with the mid-life over- haul and refurbishment of approxi- mately 30 existing craft.

Work is anticipated to begin in

April by Textron TM&LS's West

Coast Operations, located at Assault

Craft Unit (ACU) 5 at Camp

Pendleton, Calif. It is expected that approximately 15 craft will be over- hauled at the West Coast Opera- tions and 15 by TM&LS's East Coast facility, located at ACU-4 in Little

Creek, Va. This multi-year effort will also assist in continuing em- ployment in New Orleans.

Increasingly, LCACs are used by the U.S. Joint Amphibious Forces in providing global humanitarian as- sistance.

A U.S. leader in the design and construction of advanced technol- ogy air cushion vehicles, surface effect ships, combat vehicles and advanced suspension systems,

TM&LS, a division of Textron Inc., serves both military and commer- cial interests.

For more information on Textron

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Kvaerner Energy To Supply

Turbines For Seajets

The two 41-knot Seajet passen- ger/car fast ferries ordered by Dan- ish operator Mols-Linien from do- mestic shipyard Danyard will be powered by twin General Electric/

Kvaerner Energy LM 1600 series gas turbines, supplied in special modules from Kvaerner Energy's

Agotnes facility on the West Coast of Norway. The two GE gas tur- bines for each of the Danyard newbuildings, supplied in special- ized integrated modules, will de- velop a total output of 24,800 kW and offer a full load service speed of 40.8 knots and an expected fuel consumption of around 5.5 tons per hour.

When delivered in the spring of 1996 from Danyard's Romdrup fa- cility in Aalborg, both 232.9-ft. (71- m) long vessels will operate on the

Danish ferry company's Ebeltoft/

Odden service between Jutland and

Sjaelland, cutting the journey time from an hour and 45 minutes to just 45 minutes.

The Seajets, designed jointly by

Danyard and Australian fast ferry builder NQEA, are a cross between a SWATH (Small Waterplane Area

Twin Hull) and a catamaran, being of all-welded aluminum construc- tion. In the Mols-Linien configura- tion (Seajet 250), each vessel will have a capacity of 450 passengers and 120 cars, with the design pro- viding drive-through facility with loading and discharge of vehicles taking place via ramps fore and aft.

For more information on

Kvaerner Energy

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Nominations For

Seamanship Trophy Sought

Nominations are being accepted for the 1995 American Merchant

Marine Seamanship Trophy.

The trophy is awarded on behalf of the maritime industry to U.S. citizens which exemplify the high- est traditions of seamanship and maritime skills demonstrated in the immediate past calendar year. In 1994, the Selection Committee se- lected Capt. Deborah Dempsey, who led a small group of volunteers airlifted to a crewless, runaway ves- sel to gain control of the ship before it was beached. Nominations must be individual U.S. citizens who have performed distinguished seaman- ship while aboard a civilian-crewed

U.S.-flag vessel, yacht or other small craft during the calendar year 1994.

All nominations should be sent by

May 1, 1995 to: Secretariat, Ameri- can Merchant Marine Seamanship

Trophy, Office of External Affairs,

U.S. Merchant Marine Academy,

Kings Point, N.Y. 11024-1699.

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