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Avondale Lays Keel For

Fourth Navy Fleet Oiler

Avondale Shipyards, Inc. of

New Orleans, a subsidiary of

Ogden Corporation, recently laid the keel for the U.S. Navy aux- iliary oiler Willamette (AO-I8O).

She is the fourth in a series of five that Avondale is building for the Navy.

Named for the river that flows from the Cascades into the Co- lumbia River in western Oregon, the Willamette is scheduled to be launched in March of 1981 and delivered in December the same year.

The Willamette will join the

Navy's fleet of AOs to deliver bulk diesel marine fuel and JP-5 from shore depots to AOEs and

AORs effecting delivery under way, to make underway delivery to combatants and support forces,

H M S and to deliver limited fleet freight, mail, and personnel.

Like her sister ships, the Wil- lamette will have an overall length of 59iy2 feet, extreme beam of 88 feet, mean draft of 3IV2 feet, and displacement of 26,110 tons. She will be manned by a crew of 200, and have a sustained speed of 20 knots.

Although principally a ship- builder, Avondale is a diversified company with facilities that in- clude quick-repair yards, a found- ry, a special products division, steel sales, and a facility near the Gulf at Bayou Black that builds offshore drilling structures.

J.V. Sterling Joins

Pacific Marine As

VP And General Manager

James V. Sterling Jr. has joined

Pacific Marine, a Unitek Compa- ny, as vice president and general manager of the ship and indus- trial repair.

James V. Sterling Jr.

Prior to joining Pacific Marine, he was senior vice president for one of Hawaii's largest maritime companies. He is a retired lieu- tenant, U.S. Navy Reserve, and currently holds a U.S. Coast Guard license. He is a graduate of the

Massachusetts Military Academy.

Pacific Marine, a Unitek Co., is a diversified Hawaii corporation with operations in a variety of industries. Its primary businesses are ship repair and industrial con- tracting.

TBW Industries Gets $5-Million Order For

SMATCO Deck Equipment

A $5-million contract for SMA-

TCO deck equipment and Pnu-

Tanks has been signed by TBW

Industries of Houma, La., which will provide the equipment for

MacLaren Shipyard of Rio de

Janeiro, Brazil. MacLaren is cur- rently building 14 supply boats on orders placed by Brazilian off- shore operators.

Announcement of the contract was made by R.M. Thompson, president of TBW Industries, who said the major items to be sup- plied will be windlasses, tuggers, waterfall anchor-handling winch- es, and pneumatic bulk tanks.

The contract is one of three recently signed by TBW Indus- tries with Brazilian companies.

Ebin-So Shipyard of Porto Alegre has contracted for a major ship- ment of SMATCO constant-ten- sion winches, and Dresser of Bra- zil has ordered four horizontal tanks.

All of the equipment included in the three orders is manufac- tured in Brazil through licensing agreements with TBW licensees

CEC Equipamentos Maritimos and Irmaos Strauhs.

Tie up to dependability.

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HMS will service your vessel by truck or barge. And we'll soon have a new fuel dock in the Houston harbor. It's part of our $2,000,000 expansion, a construction project which underscores our commitment to service and dependability.

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