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Vancouver Shipyard Completes Drydocking Of Several Vessels Vancouver Shipyards Co., Ltd., of North Vancouver, B.C., completed the drydocking of the British Columbia Ferries Queen of Coquitlam' and 'Queen of Esquimalt,' as well as the Polish fishing vessel, 'Marlin,' and the reefer 'Erickson Frost.' The yard plans to soon start drydock work on the 37,000-dwt bulk carrier 'Pacprince' and the 14,000-log tip- ping barge, Haida Monarch.' Keel-Laying Ceremony For LSD 51 At Avondale being built by Avondale are of the Whidbey Island (LSD 41) Class and are very similar to the LSD 44 through LSD 48 Class, also built by Avondale. The LSD (CV) version was reconfigured by NAVSEA to ac- commodate a different cargo mix and will have enhanced embarked troop facilities. Avondale Industries is one of the nation's leading marine fabricators. In addition to its shipbuilding op- erations, the company specializes in boat construction and is a major repair contractor for commercial and Navy ships. Avondale is also in- volved in modular construction of plants and components for a variety of land-based industries. For more free information about Avondale Industries, Navy Awards Medals To 142 USMMA Cadets Killed In World Warll The U.S. Navy recently has au- thorized the posthumous awarding of service medals and ribbons to 142 cadets of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA), Kings Point, N.Y., who perished at sea in enemy action during World War II. The USMMA is the only one of the nation's five federal service acad- emies to send its students into com- bat zones. The school's color guard is permitted to carry a Battle Stan- dard flag because of the wartime activity of its midshipmen. Because of their "student status," the eligibility of the 142 young men lost at sea for war service recogni- tion had initially been questioned. In a symbolic gesture, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Barbara S. Pope presented samples of the war- time medals to Captain Warren Leback, the U.S. Maritime Admin- istrator, at ceremonies at the Acad- emy. Captain Leback is a 1944 graduate of Kings Point and a World War II merchant marine veteran. The Academy is operated by the Maritime Administration of the De- partment of Transportation. A brief ceremony was held re- cently at Avondale Industries, Inc.'s, Shipyards Division, New Orleans, La., to celebrate the keel-laying of the LSD 51, to be named USS Oak Hill. Scheduled for delivery in Au- gust 1995, the LSD 51 is the third ship of the current design of Land- ing Ship Dock (LSD) ships classified as LSD 41 (Cargo Variant). The LSD 41 (CV) contract, awarded by Naval Sea Systems Com- mand (NAVSEA) to Avondale in June 1988 for the construction of the Cargo Variant LSD ships, in- volves three ships now under con- struction: LSD 49; LSD 50; and LSD 51. This current flight of LSD ships Circle 26 on Reader Service Card White House Approves FY93 Coast Guard Budget A maritime bill that authorizes $3.6 billion for Coast Guard pro- grams in fiscal year 1993, which began October 1, has been signed by President George Bush. Also included in the legislative package are measures that prohib- its the abandonment of barges on U.S. waterways and brings certain hopper dredges under U.S. coastal shipping law. Navy Takes Delivery Of Carrier George Washington From Newport News Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Newport News, Va., recently delivered the nuclear- powered aircraft carrier George Washington (CVN 73) to the U.S. Navy in a brief ceremony on the ship's hangar deck. The Navy will commission the ship on July 4,1993, at the Norfolk Naval Station. The shipyard received a two-car- rier contract for George Washing- ton and Abraham Lincoln in Decem- ber 1982. The Navy commissioned the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) into the fleet in 1989. Newport News Shipbuilding laid the keel for CVN 73 in 1986 and christened the car- rier on July 21, 1990 (for more information about the George Wash- ington, see "Outstanding Oceango- ing Ships Of 1992," page 14). The shipyard is currently build- ing two other aircraft carriers, the John C. Stennis and United States, and is overhauling and refueling the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. The yard is also building eight Los Angeles-class submarines. For additional free information about the services available from Newport News Shipbuilding, Circle 51 on Reader Service Card ViaSat Names Perlowski New Product Manager Edgewood, N.Y.-based ViaSat Technology Corporation's new Inmarsat Terminals product man- ager, Walter Perlowski, has over 30 years of experience in high-tech- nology communications systems and navigation electronics. Mr. Perlowski's extensive knowledge of the Inmarsat satellite system dates from its inception, as he has marketed four generations of Inmarsat Standard-A terminals. Walter Perlowski In his new position with ViaSat Technology, Mr. Perlowski will be responsible for marketing Inmarsat earth stations and other Inmarsat- compatible products to the company's variety of clients. For ViaSat Technology Corpora- tion, Mr. Perlowski's appointment augments already expansive prod- uct development and marketing pro- grams. In addition to its Inmarsat products, ViaSat Technology, which is a subsidiary of Satellite Trans- missions Systems, Inc., and a mem- ber of the California Microwave fam- ily of companies, builds highly por- table Ku- and C-band satellite earth stations (PSATR) and ground com- munications equipment (GCE) to be used with Intelsat, Eutelsat, Pan Am Sat, Arabsat and most other satellite systems. Zodiac Hurricane Appoints Tim Fleming President Zodiac Hurricane Technologies, Inc., of Richmond, British Columbia (B.C.), Canada, announced the ap- pointment of Tim Fleming as the company's new president. Mr. Fleming replaces J.J. Marie who founded Zodiac Hurricane Technolo- gies in 1983 and will remain as presi- dent of Zodiac of North America. Zodiac Hurricane Technologies is the distributor for Zodiac, Bombard, Projet, Sevylor and Hurricane boats and Zodiac life rafts for Canada. The company also manufactures rigid hull inflatable boats, military products and Projet boats at facili- ties in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, and Ferndale, Wash. Mr. Fleming comes to North America from the home office in Paris, France, where he has been director of marketing. He is a native Englishman whose experience in inflatables began in England with Zodiac and includes a 12 year period in Vancouver, retailing and distrib- uting Zodiac products. More recently, Mr. Fleming es- tablished the Australian distribu- tion for Zodiac, which he still super- vises. Oil Production Surge Fuels Demand For Support Vessels It has been reported that attempts by Persian Gulf countries to take advantage of current oil prices by unofficially increasing their crude oil production has resulted in a strong boost in demand for offshore support vessels to move rigs around the Gulf. Viking Offshore, which has ex- tensive offshore facilities in the Gulf, was recently seeking to charter sup- port vessels to move rigs from Bahrain to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Reports indicated that Viking was looking for vessels of8,000 to 12,000 bhp and was also seeking a much larger ship for a special project. Tanker owners and ship agents were relieved to see recent charter- ing activity for winter crude oil drill- ing. Shipping sources said that if the chartering activity continues through the end of the year there is bound to be some local increase in production to take further advan- tage of the growing demand. German Shipyards Rescue Four-Ship Cosco Order The German shipyards of HDW and Bremer Vulkan have salvaged a controversial order for four 3,765- TEU containerships from China Ocean Shipping Company (Cosco), Beijing, China. The European Council (EC) had originally banned development aid financing for three of the ships after it had received complaints of unfair yard subsidies. Bremer Vulkan will build three of the containerships, two of them partly at its newly acquired MTW yard in Wismar, and HDW will build one vessel. Under the new arrangements, the shipyards and banks will take the following measures: reduce the price of the ships from DM 200 million ($129,700,000) each to DM 167 mil- lion ($108,299,500); enable all four orders to be eligible for yard aid amounting to DM 18 million ($11,673,000) per vessel, which was not the case when three were subsi- dized under the "8E" development aid scheme; and grant a "true" price reduction of more than DM 3 million ($1,945,500) per ship. Three coastal states where the shipyards are located will pay a to- tal of approximately DM 23 million ($14,915,500) under the usual bur- den sharing arrangement. 62 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News
