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Bender Delivers Two

Factory Ships—Receives

Contracts For Two More —Literature Available

Bender Shipbuilding & Repair

Co., Inc., Mobile, Ala., recently de- livered two fishing trawlers to two affiliates of Arctic Alaska Fisheries

Corporation, the largest fishing and at-sea processing company in the

U.S., and received two contracts from the Seattle, Washington-based firm to convert two ships into fac- tory trawlers.

Bender converted the offshore suppy vessel Spring Mist into a 184- foot trawler/processor, the Unimak

Enterprise. The factory trawler is able to catch cod and pollock, head and gut the fish, and freeze it in four

Sabroe horizontal plate freezers.

Under the conversion, Bender in- stalled a fixed kort nozzle and re- moved wood decks, pipe-racks, bulk mud compressors, and auxiliary die- sels. The Mobile yard installed a complete shelter deck to accommo- date the processing area, refrigera- tion machinery and two new Cater- pillar 3508 DITA 715-kw diesel gen- sets. New electronic equipment,

Rapp Hydema trawl winches, Ras- mussen split-type net reels, Lantec and Pullmaster auxliairy winches and Alaska Marine straight boom telescoping cranes were also in- stalled.

The Unimak Enterprise is the 10th offshore supply vessel to be converted by Bender for the com- mercial fishing industry in the last two years.

Just prior to the Unimak Enter- prise's delivery to Unimak Enter- prise, Inc., the shipyard delivered the newbuilding Arctic IV, a 155- foot refrigerated seawater trawler, to Arctic Fisheries, Inc. With a total capacity of just under 10,000 cubic- feet, the Arctic IV is powered by an

EMD 16-645 16-cylinder diesel en- gine developing 1,950 hp at 900 rpm coupled to a Reintjes VAL2250 re- duction gearbox and fitted with a

Berg CP propeller.

Other equipment includes Rapp

Hydema hydraulic deck winches and net reels, Lantec and Pullmas- ter auxiliary winches, and an Alaska

Marine straight boom telescoping crane.

Prior to delivery of these ships,

Bender received two contracts from the same owners to convert a 295- foot cargo ship, the M/V Island

Hope, and a 220-foot oil supply ship, the M/V Ocean King, to fac- tory trawlers. Both ships will be operated by Arctic Alaska Fisheries, with deliveries scheduled for July and September 1989.

For free literature detailing the shipbuilding, repairing and conver- sion services offered by Bender,

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MMC International

Announces New Tape

And Valve Catalog

MMC International Corporation has released a new catalog titled "Keeping You In Control," featur-

November, 1988 ing the company's line of tank gaug- ing tapes and vapor control valves.

MMC manufactures electronic hand-gauging tapes under the "Flexi-Dip" trademark. A complete selection is offered for both open and restricted gauging. Users may select single-function tapes, ullage or temperature; bi-mode units, ul- lage/temperature or ullage/interface and its trimode model for ullage/ interface/temperature.

The MMC line of vapor control valves is also described in full detail in the new catalog.

MMC International Corporation is a leading manufacturer of elec- tronic gauging tapes of all kinds, C-

L couplings and covers and other specialty products for the marine and liquid handling fields. The com- pany also has production and mar- keting facilities in Europe and the

Far East.

For more information and a free copy of the new catalog from

MMC,

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Cargo Ship To Undergo $19.8-Million Conversion

At Bay Shipbuilding

Bay Shipbuilding Corporation,

Sturgeon Bay, Wis., recently re- ceived a $19,847,786 contract from the Maritime Administration (Mar-

Ad) to convert a Government- owned cargo vessel into a maritime training ship.

Under the contract, the cargo ship Mormactide, which is at pre- sent part of the National Defense

Reserve Fleet (NDRF), will be fit- ted with new quarters, exercise fa- cilities, galley, messrooms, class- rooms, a machine shop and mainte- nance and repair facilities. Her deckhouse will be enlarged to ac- commodate 800 officers, crew and cadets.

After the conversion, which is ex- pected to take one year, the Mor- mactide will be utilized by the ca- dets at the State University of New

York Maritime College at Fort

Schuyler. The present training ship, the Empire State, will be retired to the NDRF.

For free literature detailing the shiprepairing and conversion ser- vices of Bay Shipbuilding,

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MHI, IHI Named

Prime Contractors For

Japan's First Aegis Ship

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) and Ishikawajima-Harima

Heavy Industries (IHI) were recent- ly named the prime contractors for the Japanese Navy's first Aegis ship by the Japanese Defense Agency.

MHI will build the hull and IHI will supply the power plant, which it will purchase from General Electric in Fairfield, Conn.

The total cost of the ship will be about $914.6 million, with $472 mil- lion for the Aegis system alone, which is provided by the U.S. Navy under a foreign military sale agree- ment.

New Generation Of Simrad

Color Sounders Available —Free Literature Offered

Simrad, Inc. of Seattle, Wash., recently announced the arrival of their new color sounder line. The

EC-205, EC-206 and E C-222 are full-function, high-powered and easy-to-operate color video soun- ders that feature large, tight resolu- tion, high-intensity CRT screens.

The EC-206 and EC-222 have a special STD (Small Target Detec- tion) function that allows the opera- tor to better detail small fish size that on conventional sounders.

The new line is now available with matched transducers or as cabinet only for installation on existing transducers.

For more information and free lit- erature from Simrad,

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Even better because with our new name has come a renewed dedication to the quality of the workboats we build for you.

As SeaArk, we're still building the industry's largest selection of aluminum

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