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The Caterpillar-powered Carteret, built by Moss Point Marine for the State of North Caro- lina, will operate in Pamlico Sound between Cedar Island and Ocracoke Island.

Caterpillar-Powered Passenger Ferry

Delivered By Moss Point Marine

To State Of North Carolina

Moss Point Marine, Inc., Esca- tawpa, Miss., has delivered the Car- teret, a new 161-foot ferry to the

State of North Carolina. The vessel can transport 200 passengers and 30 autos.

The $2.7-million, all-steel Carter- et is 161 feet long, with a 50-foot beam and 12.5-foot depth.

Built to U.S. Coast Guard stan- dards from a design provided by the

North Carolina Department of

Transportation, the ferry features an "island" type superstructure with two decks dedicated to passen- ger seating, lounges, and rest rooms, topped by a pilothouse with fore and aft control stations.

Vehicles enter the main deck level from the bow or stern, park in two lanes on either side of the island superstructure, and exit from the opposite end.

The Carteret will operate in the

Pamlico Sound between Cedar Is- land and Ocracoke Island.

The new ferry is powered by two

Caterpillar 3412 DI-TA diesel en- gines developing a total of 1,249 bhp. They drive two 54-inch four- blade bronze propellers through

Twin Disc reverse/reduction gears.

Electrical power is provided by two 120-kw generators driven by two Caterpillar 3306 BT engines.

They power the Matthews Marine

Systems electric/hydraulic steering gear which guides the boat. Addi- tional maneuverability is provided by a Michigan Jastram 34-inch- diameter bow thruster driven by a

Detroit Diesel 4-71 engine through

Twin Disc reverse/reduction gears.

The main deck can accommodate 50 passengers and the upper deck has enclosed seating for 23 and open deck bench seating for 20. The up- per deck also includes a crew lounge with a small galley.

A partial list of navigation and communications equipment in the pilothouse includes two Furuno ra-

CARTERET

Equipment List

Main engines Caterpillar

Generators Caterpilla

Steering gear . . . .Matthews Marine

Bowthruster .... Michigan Jastram

Bowthruster engine . . Detroit Diesel

Reduction gears Twin Disc

Main engine control system . . Wabco

Fathometer Raytheon

Radar Furun

VHF Horizon Voyager

Loran North Star

Public address system Bogen

Telephone system . . . Hose-McCann

Eng. alarm system

Prime Mover Controls

Search, navigation lights .... Perko

Floodlights Pauluhn

Main switchboard Ind. Power Systems

Keel coolers Fernstrum

Bilge pumps Flomax

Sewage treatment Red Fox

Cathodic protection system Engelhard

Anchors and chain Danforth

Cleats Deever Steel Casting

Doors & windows .... Cornell-Carr

Watertight doors . Julius Mock & Sons

Deck covering . . Crossfield Products

Joiner bulkheads & liners . . Masonite

Passenger seats C.E. White

Whistle & fog horn Kahlenberg

Stewart- & Stevenson

Awarded $21.2-Million

U.S. Navy Contract

Stewart & Stevenson Services,

Inc. recently announced it has been awarded a $21.2 million military contract for fifteen 2,500-kilowatt gas-turbine-powered generator sets.

The equipment will provide ship's service power for five Aegis class cruisers being built for the U.S.

Navy.

Stewart & Stevenson Services,

Inc. has previously been awarded the contract to deliver 66 generator sets for the first 22 Aegis cruisers.

Lykes Bros. Sells 90 Seabee Barges

To Two Companies

New Orleans-based Lykes Bros.

Steamship Co. recently sold 90 of its

Seabee hopper barges to two U.S. inland towing companies. The sale price was not disclosed.

Mid-South Towing Co. of Tampa,

Fla., bought 60 of 97-foot-long barges and Mon River Towing Inc. of Pittsburgh, Pa., bought the other 30. Both companies will most likely use the vessels for hauling coal.

The vessels were formerly used in a Lykes-patented barge-mother ship service which operated between the Gulf of Mexico, Europe and the

Mediterranean Sea. The Seabee- type service was replaced by four 1,100-TEU ships in 1986. dars, a Raytheon Fathometer, a

North Star loran, and two Horizon

Voyager VHF radios.

Moss Point Marine, Inc. is one of the shipbuilders of the Trinity Ma- rine Group which is owned by Trini- ty Industries, Inc. of Dallas, Texas.

Other shipyards in the group are

Halter Marine, Inc., with shipyards in Moss Point, Miss., and Lockport,

La., Equitable Shipyards, Inc., with facilities in New Orleans and Madi- son ville, La., and Gretna Machine and Iron Works, Inc., Harvey , La.

For free literature giving full in- formation on the facilities and capa- bilities of Moss Point Marine,

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