President Washington undergoing inspection in Todd Seattle drydock. Northwest Marine Iron Works facilities.
West Coast Shipyards
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dling tugs, and harbor as well as
oceangoing passenger ferries.
Southwest Marine's San Pedro
Division is quite busy. Its repair
backlog includes the Rio Papa Lao-
pan and Pennsylvania Trader. The
USS Racine, first of the ships in the
$35-million LST Phased Mainte-
nance Program, is under repair, as
well as the USS Mount Vernon,
which is undergoing a $15-million
fixed-price overhaul.
The USS Roanoke is the second
ship of the $100-million AOR 5-year
Phased Maintenance Program, and
is scheduled to enter the yard this
month. The San Pedro facility con-
tinues to be SWM's most active
yard.
SWM of San Francisco recently
accepted delivery of a 1,000-ton dry-
dock that will add to the yard's
USS Whidbey Island (LSD 41) and the USS
Germantown (LSD-42), two of three amphi-
bious assault ships under construction at
Lockheed Shipbuilding for the Navy.
capability. Main engine work of the
UNSN Meteor is currently in pro-
gress.
Southwest Marine of American
Samoa, Inc. commenced operation
May 15 this year, and has been busy
since. The Samoan facility includes
a new, certified 3,000-ton marine
railway that greatly enhances the
ship repair capabilities in the South
Pacific. The Samoa shipyard is
staffed with personnel that were
formerly at the San Pedro and San
Diego yards.
TODD LOS ANGELES
Circle 21 on Reader Service Card
The Los Angeles Division of Todd
Pacific Shipyards Corporation is lo-
cated on 107 acres in the West Basin
of the Port of Los Angeles, and con-
tains two floating drydocks, four
piers, and two building ways. A Syn-
crolift shiplift and transfer system
that became operational in March
1984 was specially designed for the
repair and construction of naval
vessels. It is able to lift cruisers,
destroyers, and frigates out of the
water and move them overland to
work bays for repair and general
maintenance. The system's 600- by
106-foot platform, transfer carriage,
and work bays represent a private
investment of $48 million by Todd.
The yard is served by 11 traveling
cranes; two are 175-ton revolving
units on tracks spanning the com-
plete length of the building ways.
Computer-aided design (CAD) and
manufacturing capability enhances
the application of programmable
welding, burning, machining, and
bending equipment. Recent facility
upgrading has included expansion
of the pipe, plate, and sheetmetal
shops; the only on-line production
welding robot in U.S. shipbuilding;
and the use of block/on unit pre-
outfitting and modular construction
methods.
A 450-man Navy crew housing
complex is available for the exclu-
sive use of the officers and men of
naval combatants and auxiliaries
undergoing Post Shakedown Availa-
bility (PSA), overhaul, mainte-
nance, and repair.
Todd Los Angeles has undertaken
construction, repair, and overhaul
of both commercial and naval ves-
sels since World War II. These have
included freighters, tankers, con-
tainerships, DLGs and DEs, in addi-
tion to the current FFG-7 guided
missile frigate program for con-
struction of 18 frigates for the U.S.
Navy. Through May of this year, 15
of these frigates have been com-
pleted below budget with a cumula-
tive early delivery of 97 weeks ahead
of contract schedule.
Through June this year, Todd LA
has completed PSAs on 15 FFGs
built by both the Los Angeles and
Seattle Divisions, redelivering these
vessels to the Navy a total of 110
days ahead of contract schedule.
Todd's Los Angeles Division is
the only West Coast shipyard des-
ignated by the Navy as qualified to
construct Aegis-equipped surface
combatants.
TODD SEATTLE
Circle 22 on Reader Service Card
The Seattle Division of Todd Pa-
cific Shipyards Corporation is lo-
cated on Puget Sound's Elliot Bay,
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