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Nearly 12 years of ship construction contracts ended early this month (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | LARAMIE was the sixteenth ship of the TAO 187 Class which Avondale built and delivered since the keel was laid for the first ship of the class, USNS HENRY J. KAISER (TAO 187) on August 22, 1984. |
 | | LARAMIE, like her sister ships RAPPAHANNOCK and PATUXENT, were designed and built with double-hull sides and bottoms to satisfy the requirements of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA 90). |
 | | In the double-hull configuration, which consists of inner and outer concentric hulls, all cargo fuel tanks and all ship's fuel tanks located in the cargo block are separated from the shell by the double, or inner, hull. |
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