Kawasaki To Build
Two High-Speed Ro/Ro
23,000-DWT Trailerships
Kawasaki Heavy Industries,
Ltd. received orders for two
identical high-speed (24.0 knots)
23,000-dwt roll-on/roll-off trailer
carriers from Seaspeed Ferries
Corporation of Greece and Kuwait
Investment Company S.A.K., for
their joint ownership.
Measuring 694 feet 5 inches
in length, 150 feet 0 inches in
breadth, and 65 feet 7 inches
in depth, these vessels will be
the largest of their kind in the
world. Each will have two sets of
the 14,000-bhp Kawasaki-M.A.N.
14V52/55-type medium-speed die-
sel engine. Both vessels will be
constructed at Kawasaki's Sakaide
Works, with completion scheduled
for early 1977.
Northern New England Section
Of ASNE Elects Officers For 1976
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Officers of the Northern New England Section of ASNE, left to right: Rudolph
Krause, councilman; Harold Neville, vice chairman; Gary Adams, chairman; Kenneth
Lanzillo, councilman, and Lt. Lynn Waite, treasurer. (Absent when picture was
taken were Wadsworth Hardy, secretary, and Comdr. Leo Gies, USN, councilman.)
The American Society of Naval
Engineers' (ASNE) Northern
New England Section elected a
new slate of officers for 1976 at
a recent dinner meeting held at
the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
Officer's Club. Gary Adams was
elected chairman, Harold Neville,
vice chairman, Wadsworth
Hardy, secretary, and Lt. Lynn
Waite, USN, treasurer. Kenneth
Lanzillo was elected councilman
for three years, Rudolph Krause,
councilman for two years, and
Comdr. Leo Gies, USN, council-
man for one year.
Following the dinner and the
business meeting, an interesting
lecture was presented to the mem-
bers and guests by Capt. Thomas
L. Albee, USN, head of the Ad-
vanced Technology Systems Divi-
sion of the Naval Sea Systems
Command, Research and Develop-
ment Directorate. Captain Albee
spoke about the employment of
advanced marine vehicles in the
U.S. Navy, elaborating on the
"whys" and "hows" of the Navy's
potential uses of hydrofoils, sur-
face ships, air cushion vehicles,
and small waterplane area twin
hulls. Movies showing various
high-speed craft in action were
shown, following the main lecture
and slide presentation.
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