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The Assertive will join the eight other T-AGOS already delivered by Tacoma Boat.

Tacoma Boat Launches Ocean

Surveillance Ship For Navy's MSC

Tacoma Boatbuilding Company (TBC) in Washington recently launched on schedule the USNS As- sertive (T-AGOS-9), the ninth in a series of ocean surveillance ships designed and built by TBC for oper- ation by the Navy's Military Sealift

Command.

Speakers at the launching cere- mony included Paul A. Schneid- er, executive director of the Amphi- bious, Auxiliary, Mine Sealift Ship

Directorate; and L. Wayne Arny

III, principal deputy assistant sec- retary of the Navy (shipbuilding and logistics). Mrs. Sydney Arny was the sponsor of the vessel.

The Assertive has an overall length of 224 feet, beam of 43 feet, displacement of about 2,300 tons, and full-load draft of 15 feet. Pro- pulsion will be provided by a diesel- electric plant. Four Caterpillar/

Kato D398B, 600-kw diesel genera- tors feed through a General Electric switchboard, with any two of the four used to drive two GE DC mo- tors that produce 1,600 shp for pro- pulsion.

Each T-AGOS ship will have a complement of 19 to operate the vessel and 10 technicians to operate the sophisticated acoustic surveil- lance gear. The ships will be used primarily for the low-speed towing of a highly sensitive listening device utilized to gather data which will then be transmitted to shoreside processing facilities for evaluation.

The ship's propulsion plant is spe- cifically designed to radiate an abso- lute minimum of noise while towing the acoustic array.

The Assertive will eventually join the eight other T-AGOS already de- livered by TBC. They are the Stal- wart, Contender, Vindicator, Tri- umph, Assurance, Persistent, In- domitable, and Prevail.

Tacoma Boat operates three ship- yards, including a repair facility in

Tacoma. The company designs, builds, and repairs high-technology, high-performance vessels for the

Navy and Coast Guard, as well as for foreign governments and domes- tic commercial customers.

For full information on Tacoma

Boatbuilding's facilities and capa- bilities in building high-tech mili- tary and commercial vessels,

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Baldt Marks 85th Year

As Major Supplier To

Marine/Offshore Industries

This year marks the 85th anniver- sary of Baldt Inc. of Chester, Pa., a leading supplier of anchors, chains, related marine hardware, and moor- ing release systems. The company evolved over the years from a manu- facturer of chain and anchors, whose credits include supplying the first WWII Liberty ship with DiLok chain, to a broad-based marine sup- ply company. Current products in- clude an award-winning mooring re- lease system designed for offshore oil rigs.

Founded in 1901 as the Baldt

Anchor Company, maker of cast steel anchors, the company estab- lished itself as a dominant force in the marine industry in 1925 when it acquired the sole commercial license to manufacture and market forged

DiLok chain. In the 1930s the com- pany initiated production of spe- cialized forgings.

The war years of the early 1940s were a period of rapid growth for

Baldt as military demands for an- chors, chain, and hardware reached an all-time high. During this time the Patrick Henry, first of the

Liberty ships (built at Bethlehem's

Fairfield yard), was equipped with a

Baldt stockless anchor and DiLok steel anchor chain.

Baldt's emergence as a major sup- plier to the offshore drilling indus- try dates back to 1954, when the company filled a Humble Oil order for more than 25 miles of 2-inch

DiLok chain. In 1971, Baldt re- ceived its biggest order from Sedco,

Inc. of Dallas for 40 miles of 3-inch

ORQ stud link chain. This was spec- ified for five of Sedco's semisubmer- sible drilling rigs destined for the

North Sea.

Baldt's most recent response to the demands for massive mooring systems to hold various types of off- shore rigs in place is a series of sophisticated rapid-release systems that allow rig operators to free a ves- sel from its moorings instantaneous- ly if danger threatens. This system, called Moor-Free II , incorporates a unique disconnecting link that detonates when activated by an acoustic transducer. Moor-Free II was recently granted certification by Det norske Veritas, the Norwe- gian classification society.

For complete information and free literature on the Baldt product lines,

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Gould Names Colangelo

VP And Controller

Larry A. Colangelo has been promoted to vice president and con- troller of Gould Inc.'s System Pro- tection Division.

He will be responsible for the division's financial organization, in- cluding accounting, management in- formation systems and contracts.

Mr. Colangelo has held numer- ous positions at Gould since joining the company in 1979. He is a grad- uate of Glassboro State College and holds an MBA in finance from Xa- vier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Gould Inc. designs, develops and manufactures computer and elec- tronic products and systems used in defense, industrial and scientific ap- plications.

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