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USS Indianapolis

A team of civilian researchers led the World. by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen have found the wreck of the World

War II heavy cruiser USS India- napolis (CA 35), lost July 30, 1945.

Aiding Allen’s team in the discovery

MARINELINK.COM was a 6,000-m-rated autonomous underwater vehicle, the REMUS 6000. The AUV is manufactured by Kongsberg Maritime subsidiary

Hydroid Inc., and it gathered the sonar data that helped locate the ship 72 years after it was torpe- doed and sunk near the end of

World War II. The wreckage was found 5,500 meters below the surface in the Philippine Sea.

www.marinetechnologynews.com/ news/helped-indianapolis-552009

Photo: Paul Allen

Containership Retro? tted for LNG

The world’s ? rst containership retro? tted with a lique? ed natural gas (LNG) engine was launched in August 2017.

Since May 2017, the 1,000 TEU containership Wes Amelie, owned by Wessels Reederei based in Harem/Ems, has undergone an engine conversion at the German Dry Docks in Bremerhaven. The Hamburg based company Nauticor was selected to conduct the vessel’s initial LNG bunkering at the Kühlhauskai in the Port of Bremerhaven. In total, four trucks of LNG were brought to the German port and transferred to the vessel.

https://www.marinelink.com/news/ containership-retro? tted428680

Nauticor

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