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News

Kitchen To Retire From

Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman Corporation's

Ship Systems announced that Thomas

M. Kitchen will retire later this month as president of the sector's Avondale

Operations. Kitchen started his career with Avondale in 1977 as assistant con- troller and was named president in late 1999.

Dr. Philip A. Dur, president of

Northrop Grumman's Ship Systems sec- tor, noted Mr. Kitchen's numerous con- tributions to the company and his many years of service to Avondale. "Tom's contributions to the transition of the

Ship Systems organization have been important in our future success," Dr.

Dur said.

Dr. Dur said a successor to Kitchen will be named soon. NorthropGrumman

Ship Systems, headquartered in

Pascagoula, Miss., includes the Ingalls

Operations and the Ship Systems Full

Service Center, both located in

Pascagoula, as well as the Avondale

Operations, located in New Orleans and

Tallulah, La., and Gulfport, Miss.

Royal Navy Ships To Feature

Kelvin Hughes Radars

Kelvin Hughes will supply radar equipment to Marine Electronic Sup- plies (MES) for three new Royal Navy offshore patrol vessels.

Each of the three River Class patrol vessels, which are being built by Vosper

Thornycroft Shipbuilders, will feature two Kelvin Hughes Nucleus3 5000

ARPA X and S band radars as part of navigation and communication package supplied by MES.

The river Class future offshore patrol vessels will measure approximately 262 ft. (79.8 m), and have a speed of 20 knots.

Under an innovative arrangement, the ships will be leased to the Royal Navy for five year, with Vosper Thornycroft taking responsibility for maintenance and support.

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P&O's Oriana Completes Refit

At A&P's Southampton Yard

P&O Cruises' Oriana has completed its second refit in A&P Group's

Southampton yard. Oriana was in dry- dock from December 1-12, followed by sea trials and returned into service on schedule on December 13 when the ship departed on her Christmas cruise, with a full compliment of passengers.

The refit works comprised routine ship repair work including the application of

International's Intersleek 700 biocide- free fouling-control system to the outer hull.

A&P was the first ship repairer ever to apply this product to a cruise ship when

Star Cruises' Norway visited the yard during 1996.

The Oriana refit represents the fifth consecutive refit of a P&O Cruise vessel by A&P, following earlier successful refits of the Arcadia, Oriana and Victoria (twice).

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