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Barge Construction Avondale Shipyards, Inc., New Orleans, La., has received an order for an oil barge from Interstate Oil Transport Co., Philadelphia, Pa. The vessel, designated Hull No. 1198, will measure 300 feet by 62 feet by 21 feet, and will be of 9,000 dwt. Bethlehem-San Francisco Yard is scheduled to build two deck cargo barges. Each barge will be of 10,000 dwt and will have dimensions of 384 feet by 76 feet by 20 feet. One barge, designated Hull No. 4105, will be built for Tank Barge 31, Inc., and the other, designated Hull No. 4106, will be built for Tank Barge 32, Inc. Both companies are located in San Francisco. Dravo Corp., Pittsburgh, Pa., is building a bulk cement barge for the Halliburton Co. of Duncan, Okla. The barge will have dimensions of 275 feet by 50 feet by 12 feet, and will be of 2,600 dwt. ' General Steel Tank Co., Beaufort, N.C., has received a Navy contract for the construc-tion of five lighters (YC-YFB-1249 through 1253). The price involved was not disclosed. Jeffboat, Inc., Jeffersonville, Ind., has re-ceived an order from American Commercial Lines, Inc., Jeffersonville, Ind. to build four tank barges. Two of the barges will measure 195 feet by 52 feet 6 inches by 12 feet 6 inches, and two will measure 200 feet by 52 feet 6 inches by 12 feet 6 inches. Each barge will be of 2,250 dwt. Jeffboat is also building a crane barge for undisclosed interests. The barge will have dimensions of 180 feet by 75 feet by 12 feet, and will be approximately 2,500 dwt. Ludlow Marine Corp., Yonkers, N.Y., is planning to build a deckhouse cargo barge for Rugged new line Send for this free catalog. Write Marine Sales, Safety Guide Products Department, Borg-Warner Corporation, Scottsburg, Ind. 47170. Safety Guide* BORGXWARNER its own use. The barge will measure 45 feet by 24 feet by 5 feet, and has been designated Hull No. 1. Nashville (Tenn.) Bridge Co. has been awarded a contract for the construction of an oil barge by Barge David, Inc. The vessel, designated Hull No. 2012, will have measure-ments of 264 feet by 54 feet by 12 feet, and will be of 3,600 dwt. The firm has also received orders from Barge Donna Rae, Inc. for two oil barges. The barges will each measure 264 feet by 54 feet by 12 feet and will be of 3,600 dwt. They have been designated Hull Nos. 2014 and 2031. St. Louis Ship, a division of Pott Industries, Inc., St. Louis, Mo., will build three 2,500-dwt oil barges, each having dimensions of 290 feet by 52 feet 6 inches by 12 feet. One barge, designated Hull No. 2612, will be built for Lasson Barge Transportation Co.; another, Hull No. 2624, for Lasson Towing Service, and the third, Hull No. 2625, for B.R.C., Inc. Tidewater Equipment Corp., Chesapeake, Va., will build two deck cargo barges for Tide-water Construction Corp. of Norfolk. Each barge will measure 120 feet by 40 feet by 8 feet, and will be of 800 dwt. They have been designated Hulls No. 50 and 51. Zigler Shipyards, Inc., Jennings, La., has been contracted by Dow Chemical Co. to con-struct an independent, pressure-type tank barge. The barge will measure 195 feet by 35 feet by 11 feet and will be of 1,400 dwt. It has been designated Hull No. 203. C-E Boilers To Power Spanish Navy Vessels Combustion Engineering boilers have been or-dered for five guided-missile destroyer escorts. The vessels are being built for the Spanish Navy by Bazan Shipyards at El Ferrol del Caudillo, Spain. Each ship will be powered by two C-E boilers, type V2M with vertical superheaters, capable of generating 330,000 pounds of steam per hour, at 1,200 psig and 950° F. Combustion Engineering will design the boilers, and furnish key components and auxiliaries to Astilleros de Cadiz, Spain, a C-E licensee. Astil-leros will supply the balance of the components and assemble the boilers for delivery to the ship-yard. Gibbs & Cox of New York, N.Y. is the ship's systems design engineer. Safety Guide is a registered trademark of BORG-WARNER. MITSUI DELIVERS 106,000-DWT ORE CARRIER?The Owari Maru was delivered recently to the N.Y.K. Line by Mitsui Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Ltd. The 850-foot vessel has a beam of 137 feet 7 inches, a depth of 64 feet 7V2 inches and a loaded draft of 46 feet 7 inches. The ship is designed to the most economical di-mensions to secure the planned deadweight. Hull steel weight was reduced by locating the bridge well aft, elim-inating the poop deck, using corrugated bulkheads and the use of high-tensile steel. It is powered by a 23,200-maximum-bhp Mitsui B&W diesel engine, Type 9K84EF, which gave a trial speed of 16.7 knots. 44 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News