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pump whose spiral housing ends in a nozzle. The centrifugal pump sucks in water from underneath the vessel and ejects it again under the bottom of the vessel at an angle of 15 degrees. This produces a propulsive force in a direction contrary to that of the jet flow. The jet itself can be rotated through 360 degrees, which makes the craft outstandingly ma- neuverable.

The Pump-Jets propelling the 128-foot-long Europa are driven by two MAN B&W Diesel engines, type D 2866 E, each with an output of 178 kw/242 hp at 2,100 rpm. A speed of 13 km/h was measured on

Hopeman Brothers Named

U.S. Representative

For IMAC —Free Literature Available

Hopeman Brothers of Waynes- boro, Va., recently announced that it was named the exclusive U.S. rep- resentative and distributor for join- er products manufactured by IMAC of Helsingborg, Sweden.

IMAC, is one of the world's lead- ing suppliers of joiner bulkhead panels, doors and modular wet space units. IMAC's products have been installed on ships in the Navy's auxiliary fleet, the Maritime Ad- ministration's Reserve Fleet, and

Carnival Cruise Lines' fleet, as well as a large number of tankers, cargo the Rhine with the vessel traveling upstream, this being equivalent to 19 km/h in still water. The jets are equipped with reversing gears, en- abling the units to be cleaned with- out any special equipment when the vessel is operating in shallow water or in waters containing a large amount of coarse foreign matter.

For increasing maneuverability, the M.S. Europa is also equipped with an electrically driven Schottel

Pump-Jet of type SPJ 20 in the bow.

For more information and free lit- erature on the Schottel Pump-Jet,

Circle 37 on Reader Service Card and containerships built around the world.

Hopeman Brothers is one of the largest suppliers and installers of joiner materials in the U.S. It has supplied these materials for a large number of the major commercial and military ships built in the U.S. in the last 10 years. IMAC's prod- ucts will supplement Hopeman

Brothers' present product line, and are all Coast Guard approved.

Added to Hopeman Brothers' present line will be: Rockwool soft core bulkhead panels; Navilite hard core bulkhead panels; Marine joiner doors; and one-piece modular wet space units.

For more information and free lit- erature,

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Universal Tankships

Installs NTC Ship Manager

Software System

Universe Tankships (Del.), New

York, N.Y., a division of National

Bulk Carriers, has installed a micro- computer "NTC Ship Manager" software system furnished by Nau- tical Technology Corp., also of New

York City.

The multiship office system pro- vides a fully integrated, self-con- tained materials management capa- bility covering all spare parts, stores, consumables, etc., for UTD's fleet of eight tankships and two war- ehouses. The system is installed on a local area microcomputer network (LAN) so that the integrated data- base can be accessed and used as required by purchasing, engineering and accounting departments.

The "NTC Ship Manager" sys- tem originates and tracks requisi- tions, RFQs and purchase orders and maintains an up-to-date inven- tory status and record for each ves- sel in the fleet. UTD believes the system will significantly improve control of inventory costs and en- hance operating efficiency for its fleet.

The system can be expanded to include additional ships and to in- corporate an integrated M&R func- tion. Individual shipboard systems can be linked to the office system by satellite communication. The office system can also serve as an execu- tive information system (EIS) to provide "on-line" status reports to support management decision-mak- ing.

Nautical Technology Corporation provides consulting services, sys- tems analysis, planning, design, im- plementation and support of micro- computer-based management infor- mation systems for the maritime industry. For free literature giving full information,

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Versatile Pacific Wins

C$35-Million Contract

To Build Two Ships

Versatile Pacific Shipyards Inc. of

Vancouver has been awarded a

C$35.1-million contract to build two

Type 500 Search & Rescue vessels for the Canadian Coast Guard.

The vessels, which will each have an overall length of 164 feet, breadth of 36/feet and draft of 13 feet, are destined for service along the Canadian west coast. Delivery of the first vessel is scheduled for early 1990 and the second vessel some 20 weeks later.

For free literature detailing the shipbuilding and ship-repairing ser- vices of Versatile Pacific,

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