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The 1 90-foot-long towboat will be operated by The Valley Line Company between St. Louis and New Orleans. munication ; and single-hand radiotelephone for intra-company use.

Deck winch controls located in the pilot- bouse.

Radar, gyro and repeaters, Fathometer and automatic pilot steering.

Diesel engine monitoring system with visual and audible alarms in push-button controlled air-conditioned engine control room, in the pilothouse and in the chief engineer's quarters.

Lighter schematic panels in engine control room to show condition of fuel oil, bilge pump- ing and ballast water systems. Remote pump and valve controls for fuel transfer and pump- ing bilges will be mounted in these panels.

Automatic generator load transfer system and alarms.

General alarm system of bells in crew's quar- ters, officers' quarters hallway, aft upper engine room, forward lower engine room and galley.

The heating-cooling system for living quar- ters will employ water from a 500,000 BTU oil-fired boiler or cooling water from a liquid cooler. Air-conditioning and heating systems are designed to maintain optimum tempera- tures in living areas. A forced ventilation sys- tem will 'supply positive pressure in the engine room. Engine air will be supplied directly from the outside.

PRINCIPAL EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS

Main Engines GM-Electro Motive Division

Clutches

Reverse Reduction Gear

Propellers (stainless steel)

Shaft Bearings

Shaft Oil Seal

Shaft Stuffing Box

Skin Coolers

Main Engine Mufflers

Jacket Water Thermostats

Lube Oil Transfer Pump

Lube Oil Pumps (Strut & Stern Tube Brg)

Pre-Lube Pump

Lube Oil Coolers

Fuel Oil Service Pump

Fuel Oil Transfer Pumps

Fuel Oil Hand Pumps

Main Engine Intake Air Filter

Air Compressors (2)

Air Horns

Diesel Generators (2)

Auxiliary Diesel Mufflers

Alarm Panel (Main Engines)

Electric Motor Controls

Searchlights

Floodlights

Navigation Lights

Transformer

Sound Powered Telephone

Electrical Distribution Panel Boards

Tel eta Ik System

General Alarm

Radar

Radio Telephone

Autopilot

Fathometer

Swing Indicator

Steering Pumps

Steering Control Valves

Steering System (hydraulic)

Hydraulic Cylinders

Pilothouse Controls

Bilge Pump

Raw Water Pump

Sewage Pump

Macerator Pump

Potable Water Pump

Airflex

Folk

Coolidge

SKF

Syntron

Johnson

Fernstrum

Universal

Amot

Roper

Roper

Roper

GM-EMD

Roper

Weinman

Blackmer

American Air Filter

Quincy

Kohlenberg . Detroit Diesel-GM

Maxim

Dravo

Furnas

Carlisle & Finch

Circle D

Carlisle & Finch

Acme

Lorain

Square "D"

Lorain

Edwards

Raytheon

Lorain

Sperry

Raytheon

Raytheon

Racine

Racine and AA

Dravo

Lindberg

Wabco

Gorman Rupp

Weinman

Gorman Rupp

Hydromatic

Deming

Potable Water Heaters Pennsylvania Bradford Appliance

Air-Conditioning Equipment

Heating & Cooling Circ. Water Pump

Vent Air Supply Fans

Heating Boiler

Incinerator

Unit Heaters

Ballast Pump

Fire Pump

Fire Fighting System

Winches (Electric Powered)

Boat Hoist

Trash Compactor

Pilothouse Windows

Plumbing Fixtures

Trane

Weinman

Aerovent

Aldrich

Spronz

Trane

Berkeley

Berkeley

Kidde

Patterson

Coffin

Whirlpool

Kearfott

American Standard

Dravo Corporation Launches

Most Powerful Towboat For Use

On World's Inland Waterways

Dravo Corporation recently launched the most powerful towboat ever .built for use on the world's inland waterways.

Splashing into the Ohio River on January 31 at the company's Neville Island shipyard near

Pittsburgh, Pa., the 10,100-horsepower vessel will join the fleet of The Valley Line Company,

St. Louis, Mo., a subsidiary of Chromalloy

American Corporation.

Thomas J. Barta, Valley Line president, said the towboat will begin operating early this spring, handling 40-barge tows of approximate- ly 50,000 tons. Principal cargoes will include coal, s'teel, ores and grain.

The new boat will operate on the Mississippi

River, between St. Louis and New Orleans, La.

With the addition of this first-of-its-power vessel, Valley Line's fleet totals 21 towboats and 750 barges. The company is one of the largest operating on the country's rivers and coastal waterways.

Powered by three General Motors marine diesel engines—each rated at 3,367 horsepower —the new boat measures 190 by 54 by 12^4 feet. It will 'be driven by three 10-foot-diameter five-bladed stainless steel propellers, housed in

Kort nozzles.

The vessel has the latest safety and pollution

Final construction view of the 10,100-hp towboat which will handle 40-barge tows of approximately 50,000 tons.

Cargoes will include coal, steel, ores and grain. control equipment, including inboard fuel bunkers to protect against river contamination in the event of a side puncture.

Control features of the towboat will include devices for automatic transfer of generator load; remote-reading instruments and alarms for monitoring engine performance ; and remote controls for fuel bunkering and transfer, and bilge pumping.

Propulsion and maneuvering will be com- pletely controlled from the pilothouse, which is also equipped with radar, ship-to-shore tele- phone, depth finder, autopilot with standby steering system, other modern navigational aids, and remote deck winch controls.

Pilothouse, quarters and mess facilities will be air-conditioned.

The welded steel hull is compartmented into five watertight areas: fore peak ballast tank, fuel bunkers and wing ballast tanks, machinery space, shaft alley and aft void space.

Steel superstructure consists of a main deck- house, an upper deckhouse, an electronics space and a pilothouse.

The remote-controlled operating equipment will include:

Modified VHF radio for use as a mobile telephone; another VHF radio for lock corn-

One of three 3,367-hp GM Electro-Motive Division ma- rine diesel engines is lowered into position for the first- of-its-power towboat designed and built by Dravo. 6 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News