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Shown above for the dual naming ceremonies for the USNS Aigol/Sgt. Matej Kocak, left to right: Capt. Theodore Atwood Jr., CHC, USN, Staff Chaplain, Naval Surface Force; The Hon. Everett Pyatt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Designate), Shipbuilding & Logistics, Department of the Navy; Mrs. Everett Pyatt, guest of honor, Sgt. Matej Kocak; Rear Adm. Warren C. Hamm Jr., Vice Commander/Director of Operations, Military Sealift Command; Mrs. Warren C. Hamm, guest of honor, USNS Algol; Mrs. John Hanselman, matron of honor, USNS Algol; C. Larry French, chairman of the board, NASSCO; William Deasy, president, Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc.; Richard Vortmann, president, NASSCO; Edward Walsh, president, Waterman Steamship Corporation; and Alfred W. Lutter, senior vice president, marketing and business affairs, NASSCO. NASSCO Holds Naming Ceremonies For Two Ship Conversions Naming ceremonies were held recently at National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) for the Sgt. Matej Kocak, a Mari- time Prepositioning Ship con- verted for the Department of the Navy, and the USNS Algol (T- AKR-287), a Fast Sealift Ship con- verted for the United States Navy. The Sgt. Matej Kocak is the first of three roll-on/roll-off (RO/RO) vessels that NASSCO is convert- ing into Maritime Prepositioning Ships. The vessels are being con- verted for the Waterman Steam- ship Corporation; upon comple- tion, each will be time-chartered to the Military Sealift Command in support of the U.S. Marine Corps. A keel-laying ceremony for the Sgt. Matej Kocak was held in No- vember 1983, and the ship will be delivered in September 1984. Start of construction for the USNS Algol was January 1983 and delivery is scheduled for this summer. Mrs. Everett Pyatt, wife of the Hon. Everett Pyatt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Designate) for Shipbuilding and Logistics, was the guest of honor for the Sgt. Ma- tej Kocak. Mrs. Warren C. Hamm, wife of Rear Adm. Warren C. Hamm Jr., Vice Commander/Di- rector of Operations, Military Sealift Command, was the guest of honor for the USNS Algol. Mrs. John W. Hanselman, sister of Admiral Hamm, served as matron of honor for the Algol. The Sgt. Matej Kocak is 821 feet in length, 105 feet in beam, with a draft of 33 feet. This ship will pro- vide the capacity to rapidly trans- port to any desired locations throughout tbe world 25 percent of the vehicles and initial supply of ammunition, fuel, and rations for a marine amphibious brigade. All ships in the T-AK Maritime Prep- ositioning Ship program will be named for deceased Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipients. The Sgt. Matej Kocak was named for the marine who received the Medal of Honor posthumously from both the Army and Navy for heroism displayed above and beyond the call of duty in action against the enemy on July 18, 1918. The USNS Algol is 946 feet in length, 105 feet in beam, with a draft of 37 feet. The Algol will be stationed in the United States and, if an emergency arises, will be loaded with military cargo to provide rapid, second-wave sup- port to deployed combat troops. The T-AKR ships will be named after stars. The USNS Algol was named after a star located in the constellation Perseus (The Hero). National Steel and Shipbuilding Company is a wholly owned sub- sidiary of Morrison-Knudsen Com- pany, Inc. of Boise, Idaho. MarAd Acquires RO/RO Vessel Atlantic Bear With Bid Of $17.5 Million The Maritime Administration recently acquired the roll-on/roll- off vessel Atlantic Bear at a fed- eral auction held in Norfolk, Va., with a bid of $17.5 million. The vessel was owned by Pacific Far East Line, Inc., which went bank- rupt in 1978. The government holds a preferred mortgage on the ship. In June 1978 it paid off $37.6 mil- lion in unpaid principal and $1.7 million in accrued interest on the vessel's mortgage which was backed by the government's Title XI financing guarantees. Acadian Marine Co. of Lake Success, N.Y., has a conditional contract with the Secretary of Transportation to purchase the ship for $21.8 million plus the cost of all repairs and reconditioning work necessary to put the vessel in class. (The ship has been idle in the National Defense Reserve Fleet for most of the past six years). As a condition of the agreement, Aca- dian has been issued a Letter of Commitment for Title XI guaran- tees covering 87 Vi percent of the depreciated original actual cost of the vessel and its reconditioning costs. Acadian is a Delaware partner- ship of two corporations, Atlantic Shipping Corp., and Spirit Marine, Inc., which will own the vessel, to be renamed the Atlantic Spirit. The vessel, built in 1976 at Sun Ship, Chester, Pa., is 790 feet long and has a capacity to carry 400 trailers and 150 vehicles. Perolin Offers Handbook On Fuel Oil Treatment A 38-page handbook on the chemical treatment of fuels has been made available by British- based Perolin Marine, a Unitor company. Titled "The Perolin Fuel Oil Treatment Handbook," the publication has been prepared for guidance in the selection and ap- plication of Perolin products in a balanced program of fuel oil treatment. The handbook lists some 10 se- rious problems in connection with ship operations, along with a range of carefully prescribed treatments and products for improved per- formance and savings in fuel and maintenance costs. The cause, ef- fect, product application, and method of dosing are detailed sep- arately and concisely for each problem, along with an applica- tion chart. Perolin also has publications for maintenance, tank cleaning and water treatment products. For more information and free copies, Circle 67 on Reader Service Card 14 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News
