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The Cummins powered Mike Schmaeng.

Inland Marine Delivers Towboat

M/V Mike Schmaeng To Pott Industries

The Inland Waterways Divi- sion of Pott Industries, Inc., St.

Louis, recently christened its new- est towboat, the M/V Mike

Schmaeng, an 1,800-hp towboat, built by Inland Marine Construc- tors, Inc. of Evansville, Ind. The christening ceremonies were at

Evansville.

The new towboat is named af- ter G. Michael Schmaeng, port engineer of Federal Barge Lines, an operating company of the In- land Waterways Division of Pott

Industries. The towboat will be operated by Heartland Transpor- tation Company, a subsidiary of

United Barge Company, another operating company of the Inland

Waterways Division.

Opening address and welcome was given by Roy Ryan, president of Inland Marine Constructors,

Inc.; tribute was bestowed upon the vessel by Jack Lynch, presi- dent of the Inland Waterways

Division of Pott Industries. Ben- ediction was offered by Reverend

David Kissel, pastor of St. John

The Baptist Church at Newburg,

Ind. Reverend Kissel presented the ship's bible to Capt. John

Choate. Immediately thereafter,

Mrs. Margaret June Schmaeng, sponsor and wife of the towboat's namesake, broke the traditional bottle of champagne.

The M/V Mike Schmaeng hull measures 85 feet by 30 feet by 10 feet, with an operating draft (maximum) of 8 feet 3 inches.

The all-welded steel hull is heavily framed, longitudinally and trans- versally. The bottom plate is y2- inch with bilge knuckles and stern bottom plating %-inch, side plat- ing is %-inch, bow corner plating is %-inch, and headlog plating is %-inch. A bent plate of y2-inch plating is provided along both sides and the stern transom.

There are four fuel oil bunkers with a total capacity of 30,016 gallons, two potable water stor- age tanks having a total capac- ity of 6,556 gallons, one 360-gal- lon lube oil storage tank, one 590- o-allon bilge holding tank, one 590 gallon dirty oil holding tank, and three ballast tanks, having a total capacity of approximately 10,000 gallons, all built into the hull.

Propulsion power is furnished by two Cummins KTA-2300M die- sel engines, each developing 940 hp at 1,800 rpm through a Twin

Disc Model MG540 reverse reduc- tion gear with a 7 to 1 ratio. The engines are cooled with clear wa- ter circulated through Fernstrum

Grid Coolers. The engine and gear package was supplied by Cum- mins Missouri.

The engines are started from the engine room only and are /2IMS1

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Logic Master pneumatic control system, as provided in the pi- lothouse. The Mike Schmaeng swings two four-blade Columbian

Bronze stainless-steel propellers, with 78-inch diameter and a 64- inch pitch.

The twin Delco 60-kw gener- ators, driven by GM 4-71s, and the Con-Select control panel, were supplied by Western Diesel Com- pany, St. Louis.

The boat carries a Pan Amer- ican Systems Corporation 24- point monitoring system. The

PASC 450 Series modular system maintains a watch on main jacket water levels and temperature, lube oil level and pressure, re- duction gear lube oil levels, and generator water and lube oil lev- els, as well as bilge water level, fire alarms, and other functions.

The steering system is mechan- ical-over-hydraulic with full fol- lowup controls. The boat has two steering and four flanking rud- ders. The system is operated by one of two hydraulic steering pumps. On deck, in addition to dual 40-ton Patterson winches, the Mike Schmaeng is equipped with Steven-Adams "Car Puller"

Model 12V capstan winches, fore and aft.

Atop the pilothouse are two

Carlisle and Finch 19-inch carbon arc searchlights, as well as a

Kahlenburg Model T-2 Triplex

Airhorn. Pilothouse electronics include two Raytheon 55 VHF radios, a Dukane loud hailer and intercom system, an Intech Model 2500 single-sideband, and two

Sperry radars, Model 74 and Mod- el 3012. The towboat is also equipped with an Anschuetz swing indicator and an EPSCO

CVS-888 depth recorder. Pilot- house eye level is 34 feet.

The pilothouse contains a con- sole for housing the engine and steering controls, a double cush- ioned settee with hidden water closet under and a combination water cooler/refrigerator. An electronics room is provided im- mediately beneath the pilothouse and houses the searchlight recti- fiers and power supplies for the various electronics equipment.

The Mike Schmaeng sleeps nine persons, with two double bunk- rooms, laundry, full head and a galley, located on the first deck, and two double bunkrooms, a sin- gle bunkroom and a full head on the second deck. All living quar- ters, galley and bathrooms have central air-conditioning. The pi- lothouse is air-conditioned by two window-type units.

The Mike Schmaeng is equipped with a bilge/ballast pump, fire pump, fuel oil transfer pump, two

Quincy Model 325 air compres- sors, a potable water pressure set, and hot water tank. A Fast 9M sewage treatment plant treats the waste matter.

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