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Product tanker Torm Margrethe will be powered by a single five-cylinder L70MCE MAN B&W diesel engine. Burmeister & Wain Christens Eighth Product Tanker In Series The 750-foot M/T Torm Mar- grethe was recently christened at ceremonies at Burmeister & Wain Skibsvaerft A/S in Copenhagen. The single-screw tanker is the eighth in a series of Panamax prod- uct tankers, type CPT54E. She was contracted for by K/S Margrethe- holm, a partnership of Danish tax investors, and will be operated by the Danish shipping company Torm. The vessel, which has a beam of 106 feet and draft of 38 feet, is equipped with one five-cylinder, two-stroke MAN B&W L70MCE diesel engine, which develops 10,900 bhp at 84 rpm MCR or 9,800 bhp at 81 rpm CSR. The engine runs a four-bladed propeller with a diame- ter of 7.2 m or 23.6 feet. She has an average speed of 15.1 knots at a loaded design draft/ballasted condi- tion of 90 percent. In her engine room, the Torm Margrethe has four auxiliary en- gines—two six-cylinder MAN B&W T23LH-4E diesel engines each di- rect coupled to a 600-kw generator and two eight-cylinder MAN B&W L28/32 diesel engines each coupled to a hydraulic pump of 1,680 kw. One is also coupled to a 1,200-kw generator. The bridge is equipped with the most up-to-date navigation instru- ments such as a direction finder, radar, satellite communication sys- tem, satellite navigator, autopilot and gyrocompass. The bridge also is equipped with remote control equipment for the propulsion ma- chinery to allow for unmanned en- gine room operation. The vessel has been designed with 12 cargo tanks (six on the port and six on the starboard side). She will be capable of carrying up to 12 dif- ferent oil products and chemicals at one time. She will be classed and registered as +1A1 "tanker for oil and caustic soda, COW, EO, INERT," and in accordance with the "Tanker Safety and Pollution Prevention 1978." She also will be equipped with a gas generator to TORM MARGRETHE Equipment List Main engine . MAN B&W Diesel Auxiliary engines . . . MAN B&W Holeby Boilers . . Aalborg Marine Generators .... ABB Kraft Electric motors .... . AEG Dansk Akts. Radars . . . .Krupp Atlas Radio station . . . Dansk Radio Gyro/autopilot . . . . Aage Hempel Int'l Remote sounding . . . .... Austronica Bridge maneuvering system & alarm system .... . S0ren T. Lyngs0 Cargo oil pumps .... . . . Frank Mohn Cooling water pumps Desmi Purifiers . . Alfa Laval Zeta Steering gear .... Porsgrunn Windlass & mooring . . Pusnes Fire equipment .... .... Ginge-Kerr Fire equipment .... . . . Walter Kidde Hose-handling cranes MTT Lifeboats Fassmer Pipelines .... Ludvigsen & Hermansen Painting of cargo tanks .... MUhlhann Painting of ballast tanks .... Ole Dufour Paints, cargo tanks . . . . . J. C. Hempel Other paints . . . International Farvefabrik pump neutral, non-explosive gas (inert gas) in the tanks to avoid the risk of explosion during loading and unloading. For free literature on the ship- building facilities of Burmeister & Wain, Circle 75 on Reader Service Card Comsat Maritime Services Moves To New Address In Washington, D.C. Comsat Corporation Maritime Services recently announced that they have moved their offices from Clarksburg, Md., to Washington, D.C., and can now be reached at the following address: Comsat Maritime Services Sales and Marketing Of- fice, 950 L'Enfant Plaza, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024, phone (202) 863-6567 or 1-800-424-9152, Telex 197800, Fax (202) 488-3814/ 3819. Sofec Concludes Management Buyout From Vickers PLC Sofec, Inc., headquartered in Houston, Texas, has recently con- cluded a management buyout from Vickers PLC. A group of six man- agers headed by Sofec president Bill Kiely completed the buyout with financial support from Pacifi- Corp Credit, Inc., of Portland, Ore. Sofec is an engineering and con- struction company that designs, fabricates and installs specialized marine facilities for military and offshore oil operations. They cur- rently have a large order backlog with several major projects under- way for the U.S. Navy in addition to supply of a Turret Mooring System to Yemen Exploration and Produc- tion Company that will perma- nently moor one of the world's larg- est storage vessels offshore the Ye- men Arab republic. The company was formed in 1972 and acquired by Vickers in 1983. For further information and free literature, Sea-Land Buys Last Three USL Ships; Outbid For Five Others Sea-Land Service Inc. recently purchased the last three remaining United States Lines Lancer Class containerships at a San Francisco auction for $22.8 million. Two weeks earlier, Sea-Land had been outbid by the Puerto Rico Management Shipping Authority (PRMSA) at a New York auction for five Lancer Class vessels. In San Francisco, Sea-Land out- bid Malcolm P. McClean, the former chairman of the bankrupt USL, and Eastern Overseas, a New York shipbroker, that bid on just one of the ships. The three vessels bought by Sea- Land, the American Lark, American Legion and the American Liberty, each have a capacity of 1,300 TEUs. At the New York auction, PRMSA bought five USL Lancer Class ships for $44,125,000. Sea- Land bid $44 million for the five ships. Circle 45 on Reader Service Card InterTrade InterTrade is a One-Stop source of foam filled Fenders and Buoys, with over 88 standard Fender sizes and several syles of Buoys to choose from. The two major Fender types are Netless (left above) and Chain & Tire (right above). Call or write for complete Fender or Buoy Information! 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