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Product tanker Torm Margrethe will be powered by a single five-cylinder L70MCE MAN B&W diesel engine.

Burmeister & Wain Christens

Eighth Product Tanker In Series

The 750-foot M/T Torm Mar- grethe was recently christened at ceremonies at Burmeister & Wain

Skibsvaerft A/S in Copenhagen.

The single-screw tanker is the eighth in a series of Panamax prod- uct tankers, type CPT54E. She was contracted for by K/S Margrethe- holm, a partnership of Danish tax investors, and will be operated by the Danish shipping company

Torm.

The vessel, which has a beam of 106 feet and draft of 38 feet, is equipped with one five-cylinder, two-stroke MAN B&W L70MCE diesel engine, which develops 10,900 bhp at 84 rpm MCR or 9,800 bhp at 81 rpm CSR. The engine runs a four-bladed propeller with a diame- ter of 7.2 m or 23.6 feet. She has an average speed of 15.1 knots at a loaded design draft/ballasted condi- tion of 90 percent.

In her engine room, the Torm

Margrethe has four auxiliary en- gines—two six-cylinder MAN B&W

T23LH-4E diesel engines each di- rect coupled to a 600-kw generator and two eight-cylinder MAN B&W

L28/32 diesel engines each coupled to a hydraulic pump of 1,680 kw.

One is also coupled to a 1,200-kw generator.

The bridge is equipped with the most up-to-date navigation instru- ments such as a direction finder, radar, satellite communication sys- tem, satellite navigator, autopilot and gyrocompass. The bridge also is equipped with remote control equipment for the propulsion ma- chinery to allow for unmanned en- gine room operation.

The vessel has been designed with 12 cargo tanks (six on the port and six on the starboard side). She will be capable of carrying up to 12 dif- ferent oil products and chemicals at one time. She will be classed and registered as +1A1 "tanker for oil and caustic soda, COW, EO,

INERT," and in accordance with the "Tanker Safety and Pollution

Prevention 1978." She also will be equipped with a gas generator to

TORM MARGRETHE

Equipment List

Main engine . MAN B&W Diesel

Auxiliary engines . . . MAN B&W Holeby

Boilers . . Aalborg Marine

Generators .... ABB Kraft

Electric motors .... . AEG Dansk Akts.

Radars . . . .Krupp Atlas

Radio station . . . Dansk Radio

Gyro/autopilot . . . . Aage Hempel Int'l

Remote sounding . . . .... Austronica

Bridge maneuvering system & alarm system .... . S0ren T. Lyngs0

Cargo oil pumps .... . . . Frank Mohn

Cooling water pumps Desmi

Purifiers . . Alfa Laval Zeta

Steering gear .... Porsgrunn

Windlass & mooring . . Pusnes

Fire equipment .... .... Ginge-Kerr

Fire equipment .... . . . Walter Kidde

Hose-handling cranes MTT

Lifeboats Fassmer

Pipelines .... Ludvigsen & Hermansen

Painting of cargo tanks .... MUhlhann

Painting of ballast tanks .... Ole Dufour

Paints, cargo tanks . . . . . J. C. Hempel

Other paints . . . International

Farvefabrik pump neutral, non-explosive gas (inert gas) in the tanks to avoid the risk of explosion during loading and unloading.

For free literature on the ship- building facilities of Burmeister &

Wain,

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Comsat Maritime Services

Moves To New Address

In Washington, D.C.

Comsat Corporation Maritime

Services recently announced that they have moved their offices from

Clarksburg, Md., to Washington,

D.C., and can now be reached at the following address: Comsat Maritime

Services Sales and Marketing Of- fice, 950 L'Enfant Plaza, S.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20024, phone (202) 863-6567 or 1-800-424-9152,

Telex 197800, Fax (202) 488-3814/ 3819.

Sofec Concludes

Management Buyout

From Vickers PLC

Sofec, Inc., headquartered in

Houston, Texas, has recently con- cluded a management buyout from

Vickers PLC. A group of six man- agers headed by Sofec president

Bill Kiely completed the buyout with financial support from Pacifi-

Corp Credit, Inc., of Portland, Ore.

Sofec is an engineering and con- struction company that designs, fabricates and installs specialized marine facilities for military and offshore oil operations. They cur- rently have a large order backlog with several major projects under- way for the U.S. Navy in addition to supply of a Turret Mooring System to Yemen Exploration and Produc- tion Company that will perma- nently moor one of the world's larg- est storage vessels offshore the Ye- men Arab republic.

The company was formed in 1972 and acquired by Vickers in 1983.

For further information and free literature,

Sea-Land Buys

Last Three USL Ships;

Outbid For Five Others

Sea-Land Service Inc. recently purchased the last three remaining

United States Lines Lancer Class containerships at a San Francisco auction for $22.8 million. Two weeks earlier, Sea-Land had been outbid by the Puerto Rico Management

Shipping Authority (PRMSA) at a

New York auction for five Lancer

Class vessels.

In San Francisco, Sea-Land out- bid Malcolm P. McClean, the former chairman of the bankrupt

USL, and Eastern Overseas, a New

York shipbroker, that bid on just one of the ships.

The three vessels bought by Sea-

Land, the American Lark, American

Legion and the American Liberty, each have a capacity of 1,300

TEUs.

At the New York auction,

PRMSA bought five USL Lancer

Class ships for $44,125,000. Sea-

Land bid $44 million for the five ships.

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