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James P. Stuart Incinerator Ship Apollo One Launched At Tacoma Boatbuilding The Apollo One, first oceangoing hazardous waste incinerator ship designed and built in the U.S., was launched at the Tacoma Boat- building Company's Yard No. 3 in Tacoma, Wash., recently. The $37- million vessel and a sister ship, the Apollo Two, are being con- structed for At-Sea Incineration, Inc. (ASI) of Port Newark, N.J., a wholly owned subsidiary of Ta- coma Boat. Built with the aid of Federal Ti- tle XI loan guarantees, these ships have been designed to meet all ex- isting environmental and safety standards of the U.S. Coast Guard, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Maritime Administra- tion, and the National Bureau of Standards, among others, and are the first of their kind to meet the criteria of the American Bureau of Shipping. The Apollo One can safely de- stroy up to 30 million gallons of hazardous waste each year. She is the first in a fleet of ships that ASI will operate at Federally approved ocean burn sites. The currently approved site is in the Gulf of Mexico near Cameron, La.; the other, whose approval is expected shortly, is in the Atlantic Ocean. Both are 150-200 miles out at sea. To support the burning of haz- ardous waste materials at sea, ASI will operate a multi-million-dollar marine transfer terminal near each of the burn sites. These commer- cial terminals will collect, test, blend, and temporarily store a va- riety of hazardous waste materials prior to transferring them to the incineration ships for disposal. GIBBS & COX INC. Naval Architects & Marine Engineers 1235 JEFFERSON DAVIS HIGHWAY ARLINGTON, VA. 22202 703-979-1240 119 WEST 31 STREET NEW YORK, N.Y. 10001 212-613-1300 6060 JEFFERSON AVENUE NEWPORT NEWS, VA. 23605 804-380-5800 Circle 123 on Reader Service Card n< oo V*e A IBS ^ INLAND) v •ssss # The launch of Apollo One cul- minates years of cooperative effort among international regulatory agencies, the Federal Govern- ment, and private industry to de- velop an environmentally accepta- ble alternative to the inadequate and often dangerous hazardous waste disposal methods of the past. Classed by the American Bu- reau of Shipping as + A1 E Chem- ical Carrier, +AMS, +ACCU, + IS, the Apollo One is designed with accommodations forward, chemical waste cargo tanks amid- ships, and propulsion and inciner- ation machinery aft. A forecastle deck is provided forward and a poop deck aft. Twelve integral cargo tanks are located to comply with require- ments for a Type II cargo contain- ment system. A pipe trunk is pro- vided on center line throughout the length of the cargo space and from the inner bottom to the main deck. Transverse cofferdams are installed between cargo tanks. Ballast tanks are located outboard of the cargo tanks, in the double bottom space, and deep tanks for- APOLLO ONE Major Suppliers Main engines (2) Caterpillar Reduction gears (2) Caterpillar Propellers (2) Columbian Bronze Engine controls General Electric Shaft bearings & stuffing boxes Johnson Rubber Bow thruster Bird-Johnson Thruster motor GE SS generators Caterpillar Switchboards & transformers GE Steering system Hough Marine RPM indicators .... Electric Tachometer Motor controllers Grayba Air compressors Rogers Machinery Air receivers Roy E. Hanson Inert gas system Process Systems Tank washing system Prosser East Pumps Argo Marine/Byron Jackson Cascade/Coen/Dean Bros. Kern Equipment/Power Pump Flume design McMullen WT doors, hatches & scuttles . . . Freeman Sliding WT doors Walz & Krenzer Anchors & chain Washington C&S Accommodation ladders .... Rampmaster Windlass & winches Northern Line Sewage treatment plant Effluent Technology Waste incineration system Coen CO, system Wormold Foam system National Foam Fire detection system General Fire Air conditioning York Refrigeration Borg-Warner Whistle Kahlenberg Searchlights Apollo Marine Navigation lights Tacoma Marine Nav. light panels Henschel Lifeboats Atco Marine Life rafts Nordby Supply Vent, fans New York Blower Batteries ITT Mackay Heaters & strainers Familian NW Valves Coen/Familian/Liberty Equip. Seaport Controls/Waukesha Bearings Radar & CAS Raytheon Loran C Griffith Marine Satcom system Electro Nav Satnav system & SSB Sea Mar Electronics VHF ITT Mackay Gyrocompass Sperry Marine Fathometer Sea Mar Electronics Coatings Devoe Facsimile Griffith Marine 20 Circle 218 on Reader Service Card Maritime Reporter/Engineering News