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Ideal for use with diesel engine PAGE 38 SENIOR EDITOR fuel tanks, lube oil reservoirs, ballast, bilge, or oil sump tanks or ASSOCIATE EDITOR Kathleen Reagan for other common shipboard uses. S.N.A.M.E. Symposium EDITORIAL COORDINATOR Lilian Irvine Maritime Innovations TECHNICAL EDITOR * PAGE 10 L. Parke Adair, BSNA, PE INTERNATIONAL EDITOR Robin F. Burnett. MRINA, MNI, Jeffboat To Build Two London, England I Towboats For Luhr Bros. BUSINESS MANAGER John E. O'Malley 58000 Series Jeffboat, Incorporated of Jeffer- ADVERTISING SALES DIRECTOR Single or Multi-Level sonville, Ind., has been awarded a John C. O'Malley Switches. contract by Luhr Brothers, Inc. of ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER Custom-made switches, Columbia, 111., to construct two Linda Niepokoj using standard components, river towboats. are supplied with various mounting methods, lengths, The larger boat will measure PRODUCTION MANAGER Katherine St. Onge floats, materials, etc. to suit 170 by 48 feet and be powered by the application. twin GM Electro-Motive Diesel ART DIRECTOR Ellen Hemmer engines with a total output of 7,200 bhp. The other one, also a CIRCULATION MANAGER M. Sottile twin-screw vessel, will have a re- tractable pilothouse and be pow- * SALES OFFICES ered with two Caterpillar diesels LS-35565 (brass)/ LS-270 Model totaling 2,800 bhp. New York, New York LS-56060 (stainless with Protective Both of the towboats are sched- steel) Externally Shielding for uled for delivery in June 1985. Maritime Reporter & Engineering News Turbulent In-Tonk 107 East 31st Street, New York, NY 10016 Mounted Models. Telephone: (212) 689-3266 For use where access Conditions. to inside of tanks is U Small and com- limited, such as on 0 pact, unit side- Hill Joins Petromar As Houston, Texas lube oil or fuel day R mounts in tank. Robert Hawley tanks. Custom-length Ideal for low level Vice President For Gary Lindenberger housings. Provide bilge or sump Mike Sullivan ease of maintenance tanks, and oil/ Corporate Development 11777 Katy Freeway, Suite 155, Houston, TX 77079 and tank cleaning. water interface. Telephone: (713) 870-0470 Charles LeBlanc, president of Petromar Corporation of Rockport, With Intrinsic Safety. Italy Texas, has announced that Sam S. Mr. Vittorio F. Negrone Zener Barrier Safe-Pak relays, FM approved, from Ediconsult Internazionale GEMS provide intrinsically safe operation when Hill has joined the company as Piazza Fontane Marose, 3-16123 Genova, Italy interfacing level switches with your AC or DC loads. vice president-corporate develop- Telex: 211197 EDINT 1 ment. 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Amercoaf marine coatings Amenon Protective Coatings Group 4700 Ramona Boulevard, Monterey Park, California 91754 Phone: 213-268-4111 Telex: ITT421274 AMERONMYPK Ameron B.V., Protective Coatings Division, J.F. Kennedylaan 7, 4191 MZ Geldermalsen, The Netherlands, Phone: 03455-3341, Telex: 70333 AMTC NL September 1, 1984 Circle 113 on Reader Service Card 5 Metric Constructors Win dredges, which operate along the fer table and work area. Western Gear To Build Outer Banks, are serviced and Metric's Construction manager $3.3-Million Contract maintained at this location. The for the project is Ron Donald; And Sell Rademakers new facility will completely re- Bill Beatty will serve on-site as Epicyclic Transmissions Metric Constructors, Inc. of place the existing structure and project superintendent. The Power Transmission Divi- Charlotte, N.C. has been awarded will increase its service capacity Metric is the open shop arm of sion of Western Gear Corporation, a $3,378,000 contract by the North from one vessel to four. the Jones Group, a holding com- Lynwood, Calif., has entered into Carolina Department of Transpor- Construction on the bulkheads pany which includes Metric, J.A. a license agreement with Rade- tation for the construction of a and decks was scheduled to begin Jones Construction Co., Rea Con- makers Aandrijvingen, B.V. of new marine maintenance facility in August with a May 1985 com- struction Co., J.A. Jones Applied Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The at Manns Harbor. State-owned pletion date. The project includes Research Co., and J.A. Jones Con- agreement gives Western Gear's vessels, including ferries, tugs and the installation of a shiplift, trans- struction Services Company. 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