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Australia ments thus far. that with a little different approach to dedicated mine warfare, that something like a high-speed vessel — and I don't care whether it's the HSV that we are leasing or something like that - is the answer." Admiral Natter said. "I can make it work. Somebody's got to let me buy this thing."

Spearhead

Spearhead is the U.S. Army's first

Theater Support Vessel (TSV) and is part of the Advanced Concept

Technology Demonstrator (ACTD) pro- gram by the Office of the Secretary of

Defense and the U.S. Army. The vessel will be used to demonstrate and evaluate its ability to perform during certain mis- sion scenarios, assess its usefulness to the U.S. military and refine the require- ments for the next generation of army watercraft. The TSV is critical to the

Army's ability to perform its Title 10, intra-theater mission. Spearhead will be utilized on missions to maximize its speed and flexibility and is needed for both sustainment deliveries and the movement of Army prepositioned stocks, and troop units.

TSVs promise to change the way the

U.S. Army gets to the fight. They will allow the Army to quickly deliver intact packages of combat-ready soldiers and leaders with their equipment and sup- plies, enabling them to "fight off the ramp" if necessary. Delivering intact units within a theater also will reduce the need for a large-scale on-shore reception, staging, onward movement and integration of soldiers, vehicles and equipment within the battle space. Just three weeks after the awarding of the contract for Spearhead came another, separate, order from the U.S. military.

Military Sealift Command. Washington,

D.C.. is the contracting arm that will lease a 98 m craft from Bollinger/Incat

USA. LLC. Lockport, La., to support

U.S. Navy Mine Warfare Command.

The craft, HSV-X2 (hull 061) is current- ly under construction at the Hobart.

Tasmania shipyard with delivery to

Ingleside. Texas scheduled for June. 2003.

Incat's US Military Project Manager

Nick Wells comments: "Once commis- sioned. the vessel is expected to serve as an interim replacement for the U.S.

Navy Mine Countermeasure support ship Inchon. The craft will also serve as a platform to conduct a series of limited objective experiments. exercises, demonstrations and training events determined by the Navy Warfare

Development Command and the Marine

Corps Combat Development

Command."

The ship will be capable of maintain- ing an average speed of 35 knots or greater, loaded with 500 short tons, con- sisting of 350 personnel and military equipment. A minimum operating range of 1.100 n.m. at 35 knots, is required by the contract, as is a minimum transit range of 4.000 nautical miles at an aver- age speed of 20 knots. Furthermore, she must be capable of 24-hour operations at slow speeds (3-10 knots) for small boat and helicopter operations. Development work on the exciting 367-ft. (112-m)

Evolution one 12 RoPax catamaran con- tinues. Boasting an operating dwt of 1.000 tons, the Evolution one 12 will operate at speeds of 40 knots, or 45 knots with 500 tons dwt. An additional bonus to operators is the ability to increase deadweight to 1.500 tons in which state the craft will operate with cargo at medium speed of approximate- ly 23 knots.

The vehicle deck provides 589 truck lane meters plus 50 cars, or 312 cars in a full tourist mode. With extra optional mezzanine decks fitted the possibility for even greater car capacity exists.

Increased vehicle deck headroom of 6.3 m at the center lanes and 5.9 m out- board. under the raised mezzanine decks, will allow the stowage of double stacked containers or MAFI trailers.

With a beam of 99 ft. (30.2 m). heavy road vehicles such as B-Double trucks and semi-trailers can easily turn in the bow for quick disembarkation over stern ramps. The innovative passenger cabin layout for up to 1.000 persons with panoramic window layout further improves the traveling experience.

The wide beam also serves to increase passenger comfort by reducing trans- verse accelerations in the main cabin

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Crowther

Snares Contract for 120-ft. Whale Watcher

Crowther Design are designing a 120-ft. (37-m) High Speed

Passenger Ferry for construction at

Blount Barker

Shipyards, Rhode

Island. The opera- tor, B.B.0. LLC., will run the vessel as a whale watcher out of Bar Harbor, Maine. The vessel is designed for 38 knots, powering is via 4 x

Cummins KTA50 engines (4 x 1,800 hp) and 4 x Hamilton HM651 waterjets. Delivery is

July 2003. Passenger capacities are 288 internal and 146 external, the vessel will be crewed by 10. Layout is designed with large viewing platforms for excellent passenger vision, Sea State ride control is fitted for com- fort. Survey will be under U.S. Coast Guard

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Liferaft Systems Australia

LSA Enjoys

Strong Orderbook

Liferaft Systems Australia (LSA) recently won many contracts to supply locally designed and manufactured

Marine Evacuation Systems (MES) worth approximately $3 million. Orders have been received for Marine Evacuation

Systems (MES) from Derecktor

Shipyards in New York, Rodriquez

Cantiere Navali in Italy. Australian ship- builders Incat Tasmania (2 vessels) and

Austal Ships (1 vessel) in Western

Australia which demonstrates a strength- ening in the market. The initial Derecktor order consists of MES and large capacity liferafts was for the Alaskan Government ferry operator Alaska Marine Highway

System, with the potential for more orders. The contract is the first received from an American shipbuilder and the first LSA equipment to be manufactured to U.S. Coast Guard approval. "Orders received from Incat Tasmania for MES to be installed on two vessels that are to operate for the USA military will also strengthen the presence of our product in the USA. with no less than three military 40 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News