On May 31, 1974, the 151,900 LT DW motor tanker "AMOCO TRINIDAD" for the Mammoth Bulk Carriers, Ltd. was launched by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at their Kobe yard. The ship has wide breadth and shallow draft: L/B=5.0 and B/D=2.68. The launching weight is about 29.600 ton, the largest value in Japan for sliding launching. Many problems came from these causes and it was necessary for us to investigate and solve them to succeed in the launching. In this paper, the results of these works and the data measured at the launching are shown.
