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MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS Three 65-Foot Patrol Boats Swiftships Delivers 9m Three Patrol Vessels APRIL 15, 1984 For West Indies Nations (SEE PAGE 4) 03 CZECHS Hsm3I3I!I3 (SEE PAGE 4) When it comes to Colt engine performance there's established in Reno, Nevada. In addition, our existing no substitute for genuine Colt replacement parts. Look parts and service centers in Seattle, New Orleans, Norfolk alikes just don't stack up. Physical and material inferiority and Beloit are being expanded and better equipped to can result in premature engine failure and serious meet your parts and service needs. Plus, a new com- engine damage, causing expensive and lengthy puterized order processing and inventory control network, downtime. And, today, we're creating a new parts and in all facilities, will put genuine replacement parts where service network to better meet your Colt Pielstick* you need them—when you want them. and OP engine maintenance needs. 24 hours a day. For parts and service program details, contact Colt 365 days per year. Industries, Fairbanks Morse Engine Division, 701 Lawton To minimize engine downtime, a new regional parts Avenue, Beloit, Wl 53511. 800/356-6955. warehouse and fuel injection service center has been * StHS^ S E M T-—Pfalatick ia a registered trademark vNelst<V o( Soci#t* d'Etudea da Machines Thermlques Parts, Franca. Circle 234 on Reader Service Card McAllister Feeder Service twice weekly to Boston. Call our booking agent direct: IN NEW YORK: (212) 425-3540-41 or 269-3200 IN BOSTON: (617) 241-7465 or 242-4727 McAllister Brothers, Inc. Towing and Transportation 17 Battery Place, New York, N.Y. 10004 (212) 269-3200 Baltimore (301) 547-8678 • Norfolk (804) 627-3651 Philadelphia (215) 922-6200 • San Juan (809) 721-8888 McAllister Ji Circle 234 on Reader Service Card MARITIME REPORTER OMNITHRUSTER® ON THE and Engineering News Thrust Is Forwards And Editorial and Executive Offices Sideways And Backwards COVER 107 East 31st Street, New York, N.Y. 10016 (212) 689-3266 • ITT Telex: 424768 MARINTI Swiftships Delivers Three Patrol Boats PUBLISHERS John E. O'Malley PAGE 32 Charles P. O'Malley API Tanker Conference EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Charles P. O'Malley PAGE 16 EDITOR Robert Ware RO/RO '84 SENIOR EDITOR Thomas H. Phillips PAGE 34 ASSOCIATE EDITOR Kathleen Reagan Survival At Sea A Review EDITORIAL COORDINATOR Lilian Irvine PAGE 22 TECHNICAL EDITOR 360° Maneuvering, L Parke Adair. BSNA, PE Slow-Speed Propulsion, INTERNATIONAL EDITOR Ice Management! FMC Receives $280-Million Robin F. Burnett, MRINA, MNI, London, England • Thrusts Underway Increase For 491 LVT7A1 • Thrusts While Pitching BUSINESS MANAGER John E. O'Malley • No Reversing Impeller to Change Directions Amphibious Assault Vehicles » Minimum Buoyancy Loss FMC Corporation, Ordnance Di- ADVERTISING SALES DIRECTOR » Smaller Hull Penetration vision, San Jose, Calif., is being John C. O'Malley » Fuel Savings awarded a $280,914,514 face-value- ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER increase to a previously awarded Linda Niepokoj OMNITHRUSTER DOES IT ALL! fixed-price-incentive contract for • Thrusts with nozzles out of water in rough seas: 491 LVT7A1 Amphibious Assault PRODUCTION MANAGER Katherine St. Onge vertical systems only. Vehicles. The Naval Sea Systems • No protrusions ... no change in hull shape. Command, Washington, D.C., is ART DIRECTOR Ellen Hemmer I Small nozzles reduce drag . save fuel and the contracting activity. passage time. CIRCULATION MANAGER M. Sottile • Easily retrofitted. C$9-Million Conversion Visit us at RO/RO 84 - Contract Award To SALES OFFICES Booth 67. Burrard Yarrows New York, New York The British Columbia Ferry Maritime Reporter & Engineering News Micro-Processor Control 107 East 31st Street, New York, NY 10016 System, Model 1200A Corporation has awarded Burrard with gyro input . holds Telephone: (212) 689-3266 vessel's heading. System Yarrows Corporation a contract also accepts compatible NAV/AIDS fore aft and for the heightening of the 140-me- Houston, Texas slow speed propulsion and ter-long truck ferry Queen of Al- Robert Hawley positioning. berni for the introduction of a new Gary Lindenberger PV/JT1100. 1OOOHP vehicle deck that will increase the Mike Sullivan 11777 Katy Freeway, Suite 155, Houston. TX 77079 MODULAR THRUSTER SYSTEM . .. module thruster carrying capacity by 150 passen- OMNITHRUSTER ship control systems* utilize ger cars. An appropriate increase Telephone: (713) 870-0470 individual module thrusters of up to 3000 HP in any combination to produce desired forward or in passenger seating capacity is Italy lateral net thrust. Prime movers for the also envisaged. Mr. Vittorio F. Negrone Modular Thruster System may be electric, Heightening will be achieved by Ediconsult Internazionale hydraulic or diesel powered in conjunction with jacking up 800 tons of superstruc- Piazza Fontane Marose, 3-16123 Genova, Italy manual/automatic or integrated control networks. Telex: 211197 EDINT 1 ADVANTAGES FOR LARGE VESSELS ... ture using 68 hydraulic jacks. Telephone: (010) 543.659-268.334-268.513 • Incremental Thrust Capability The C$9-million conversion that • Multiple Module Reliability began at the end of February at • Easily Retrofitted or Installed in New Scandinavia Construction Burrard Yarrows Corporation's Mr. Stephan RGOrn • Minimum Maintenance Victoria Division is scheduled for Ab Stephan R G Orn •Covered by U. S Patents; Box 184, S-271 00 Ystad, Sweden Foreign Patents Pending completion on June 11, 1984. Telex: 33335 ORN S, Telephone: 0411-184 00 OMNITHRUSTER INC. Burrard Yarrows has, in the past, carried out similar capacity West Germany 9515 Sorensen Avenue, Dept. 31-244 increases on the British Columbia Wolf O. Storck Santa Fe Springs, California 90670 Ferry Corporation vessels Queen Schiffahrtswerbung Karl-Otto Storck 213/802-1818 Telex 194265 OMNI SFES Stahlwiete 7, 2000 Hamburg 50, Cable Address Omnithrust of Vancouver, Queen of Victoria, Queen of Esquimalt, and Queen of Federal Republic of Germany Telephone:040/850 0071 Circle 236 on Reader Service Card Saanich. 107 EAST 31st STREET Maritime Reporter/Engineering News is published the 1st and 15th Member MARITIME of each month by Maritime Activity Reports, Inc. Controlled Circu- NEW YORK, N.Y. 10016 lation postage paid at Waterbury, Connecticut 06701. REPORTER (212)689-3266 AND Postmaster send notification (Form 3579) regarding undeliverable Telex: MARINTI 424768 VBPA ENGINEERING NEWS magazines to Maritime Reporter/Engineering News, 107 East 31st Street, New York, N.Y. 10016. Business Publications ESTABLISHED 1939 Audit of Circulation, Inc. (USPS) 016-750 No. 8 Volume 46 ALL MATERIAL FOR EDITORIAL CONSIDERATION SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO ROBERT WARE, EDITOR. 4 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News Mo ran Towing Names tion, using special copper anodes, leases copper, which creates an en- This order brings to over 50 the and either aluminum or iron an- vironment which is hostile to the number of Elinca Systems which Anthony Watt Manager odes, which are fitted in the scoop primary forms of marine fouling have recently been installed on Construction And Repair and the sea chests or special and iron, which forms an alkaline U.S.A. ships, jack-up and semi- strainer housing. These installa- anodic coating on the piping and submersible drill rigs and drill- tions utilize the copper-iron anode condensers thereby greatly reduc- ships, offshore oil and gas plat- combination since protection of ing impingement corrosion poten- forms, and tug/supply boats for the Cu-Ni condenser tubes against tial in the condensers. Seawater worldwide operation. impingement corrosion was a ma- flow past the anodes effects distri- For free literature on the Elinca jor concern. bution of the anode products Marine Growth and Corrosion Slow, controlled dissolution of throughout the system, insuring Control System, the anodes on these vessels re- entire system protection. Circle 69 on Reader Service Card Making a big ship bigger is the job for a real shipyard. W. Anthony Watt W. Anthony Watt has been named manager of the construc- tion and rapair department of the Moran Towing & Transportation Co., Inc., it was announced re- cently by Thomas E. Moran, president. Mr. Watt, whose appointment became effective April 1, 1984, has been active in the marine field since graduating from Paul Smiths College in New York in 1960. With a strong background in shipyard management and as an executive of the Florida Towing Company, Mr. Watt joined the Seaboard Shipping Company in New York as its assistant man- ager in 1978. He has been assistant manager of Moran's construction and repair department since 1980. Magnavox Receives $5-Million Contract For Navigation Equipment Magnavox Government and In- dustrial Electronics Company, Torrance, Calif., is being awarded a $5,192,800 modification to a pre- viously awarded firm-fixed-price jumboizing contract for 16 AN/WRN-5A(V)2 radio navigation sets and nine We coined the term -, jumbo.. .bulk tanker, cargo fault isolation modules with stor- and jumboized our first vessel, container ship, spe- age cases. The Naval Electronics ship in 1956. Since then y ft\ j\ cial product carrier. We nave Systems Command, Washington, we ve jumboized 24 ships / more experience than any D.C., is the contracting activity. ... more than the rest of the shops other U.S. yard in designing, U.S. industry combined. No ..an ll1/: installing and testing other shipyard in the entire acre steel inert gas systems, Chevron Selects Elinca world can match our facilities, fabrication crude oil washing System For