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1980 Outstanding Vessels Review— Arco California (continued from page 19) NASSCO-designed San Diego Class to be completed, are the largest vessels in ARCO's fleet of 14 tankers, and the first to have double bottoms to prevent oil spil- lage and to carry segregated bal- last. They are fitted with colli- sion-avoidance radar. An inert gas system maintains all cargo spaces in a noncombus- tible condition, thus minimizing the chances of shipboard fires or explosions. The cargo system is designed with a holding tank to collect oil from tank washings for discharging to shore facilities. The bilge system also contains apparatus to separate and retain oil from the bilge waters for dis- charge to shore in accordance with Coast Guard requirements. 'ARCO CALIFORNIA' MAJOR SUPPLIERS Buffalo Forge, fans & motors Centritech, bearings Combustion Engineering, main boilers Cutler-Hammer, controllers Demco, valves Federal Pacific Electric, panels Ferguson, propeller General Electric, main turbines & gears Hopeman Bros., joiner work Hose McCann, telephone system Johnson Pump, fire pump Keenan Supply, valves Lake Shore, lifeboats Lawless Detroit Diesel, generators Matsui, anchors & chain Paul Munroe Hydraulics, topping winch Reliance Electric, motors Transamerica Delaval Turbine, air ejectors Victor-Pyrate, fixed tank cleaning system Worthington Pump, centrifugal pump * BENJAMIN The first of two combination lighter-aboard-ship/container car- riers, the Benjamin Harrison, was delivered to Waterman Steamship Corporation earlier this year by Avondale Shipyards, Inc. She will be joined before the end of the year by sister ship Edward Rut- ledge. Like all LASH ships, they were designed by Friede and Gold- man, Ltd. of New Orleans. The LASH carrier is a single- screw, turbine-powered vessel de- signed for independent handling and carriage of 89 LASH type barges, each of which have a car- go capacity of 370 long tons, loaded in seven holds serviced by 16 large hatch openings, and on deck. The Benjamin Harrison has an overall length of 845 feet 4 inches, beam of 100 feet, depth to main deck of 60 feet, and design draft of 28 feet. Her deadweight at de- sign draft is 21,901 long tons. The ship's 32,000-shp propul- sion plant includes Transamerica Delaval steam turbines and gears, and Combustion Engineering boil- ers. Service speed at the 28-foot draft is 22 knots. The superstructure containing all accommodations and the navi- gating bridge, which has 360- degree visibility, is located for- ward. All machinery is aft. The ship has its own 510-ton gantry crane mounted on rails running almost the full length of the ship for loading and unloading barges over the stern, permitting an op- eration independent of shoreside facilities. 'BENJAMIN HARRISON' MAJOR SUPPLIERS Alco Power, standby diesel generator Alexander Industries, air powered pilot hoists, searchlights, window wipers Alfa-Laval, L-0 purifier & motor Alliance Machine, gantry crane Appleton Machine, machinery & stores cranes HARRISON Aqua-Chem, distilling plant main L-0 cooler, drain inspection tank cooling coil, F-W heat exchanger, heaters & pumps Aurora Pump, pumps Basic Engineers, spring hangers, sway braces Bethlehem Steel, shafting forgings Broehl Deck Machinery, anchor windlass, mooring winches, accom. ladder winch Buffalo Forge, gland leak-off exhauster Bull & Roberts, boiler water test outfit, feedwater sample cooler, hydrazine injection pump motor Carrier-Transicold, air-conditioning plant Combustion Engineering, main boilers Comsat General, satellite communication system Delaval IMO, pumps Delaval Turbine, main turbines & gears, ss turbogenerator, turning gear & mo- tor, aux. L-0 pump Dover, O/W separator pump & motor Facet Industries, oil/water separator, oil content overboard monitoring Federal Pacific Electric, power & lighting panels, connection boxes FMC Coffin, main feed pump, L-0 pump General Electric, motor controllers, group control centers George Engine, emergency diesel gener- ator & muffler Goulds Pumps, bilge pump Harvey Division (Avondale), propeller Henschel, shaft revolution indicator ITT Mackay Marine, Loran C, radar sys- tems, radio console, VHF radiotele- phone, facsimile recorder, radio di- rection finder, telex, lifeboat radio, antenna systems Johnson Controls, thermostatic controls Joy Mfg., vent fans & motors Kingsbury, main thrust bearing Leslie Co., control valves Lips, bow thruster Magnetics, transformers Mapeco, Pilgrim nut Maricon Instruments, satellite nav. equipment Marine Safety Equipment, lifeboat winch Mario Coil, cooling coils & heaters Paceco, container crane Perkins, navigation & signal lights Red Fox, sewage treatment plant Reliance Electric, electric motors & controls Service Foundry Division (Avondale), line shaft & steady bearings Simplex, elec. clock system Sperry, collision avoidance system, speed log, steering control, gyrocompass, rudder angle indicator Sperry-Vickers, steering gear hydraulic plant Tano, bridge control console, engine room console, flame detector system Bendix, wind speed/direction indicator The motor vessel Burns Har- bor, Bethlehem Steel's third 1,000- foot ore boat, entered service in the fall this year, having been christened earlier in ceremonies at the Sturgeon Bay, Wise., yard of Bay Shipbuilding Corporation, a subsidiary of the Manitowoc Company. Named in honor of America's most modern steelmaking plant— Bethlehem's Burns Harbor, Ind., complex on the southern shore of Lake Michigan — the new vessel has joined the Lewis Wilson Foy (also constructed by Bay Ship- building) and the Stewart J. Cort to make Bethlehem the only com- Warren, pumps — main circ., main con- densate, bilge & ballast Westinghouse Electric, forced draft blowers Wilson Walton Int'l, cathodic protection system Worthington, boiler hydrostatic test pump & motor pany with three 1,000-footers on the Great Lakes. Addition of the Burns Harbor gives Bethlehem a seven-vessel Great Lakes fleet which, in terms of average age and average vessel capacity, is the newest, most ef- ficient fleet on the Lakes, To achieve this distinction, Bethle- hem has invested some $125 mil- lion in its Great Lakes fleet dur- ing the past decade. Capacity of the new boat is 58,000 tons—the same as the Foy and 2,000 tons more than the Cort. Like the other two 1,000- footers, the Burns Harbor is a self-unloader. Equipped with a BURNS HARBOR 20 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News
