Maritime Reporter, July, 1985

<BODY> <div> President Washington undergoing inspection in Todd Seattle drydock. Northwest Marine Iron Works facilities. West Coast Shipyards (continued) 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, "" MiiraTWMrnflffTHMff Catalina Express built by Westport Shipyard. 20 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News </div> <span id="lblContents"></span> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.digitalwavepublishing.com/" title="Digital Magazine">Digital Wave Publishing</a> </BODY>