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Fishing Vessel Delivered

By Rodriguez Boat Builders

Monarch.

A trend toward more versatile fishing vessels may be established by a new craft, the Pacific Monarch, built by Rodriguez Boat Builders,

Bayou La Batre, Ala., for service in

Alaska and the Bering Sea.

In recent years, fishing vessel designers and builders have been caught in a squeeze of conflicting requirements. Competitive pres- sures demand more efficiency in handling and preserving product for stowage, causing the newer vessels to be more specialized. On the other hand, shorter and shorter seasons force the specialized vessels to ei- ther spend a lot of time tied up in the off-season, or adopt makeshift mea- sures to fish in ways for which they are not designed.

In the Pacific Monarch, Elliott

Bay Design Group has produced an arrangement that offers relatively quick, inexpensive conversion, al- lowing operations as either a longliner or a crabber. In either configuration she is properly ar- ranged and outfitted, as if designed to specialize in the task at hand.

According to Ken Lane, Elliott

Bay's vice president and leader of the Pacific Monarch project, the two keys to ease of conversion are the hold arrangement and resolution of the conflicting deck space needs of the two types of vessel.

The Pacific Monarch resolves the hold problem by providing insulated, refrigerated hold compartments that may be used for storage of fish on one voyage and flooded for crab on the next trip.

Except for the conversion fea- tures, the 125-foot-long by 34-foot- beam vessel is conventional. The hull is steel, designed per ABS and

USCG rules. Propulsion power is provided by a pair of2624-hp Cater- pillar engines, and the three diesel generators have a total capacity of 685 kw.

For free literature on the capa- bilities and facilities of Rodriguez

Boat Builders,

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AT&T Signs $49.5-Million

U.S. Navy Contract

For EMSP Modifications

AT&T has signed a $49.5 million contract with the U.S. Navy for modi- fications to its Enhanced Modular

Signal Processor (EMSP). The modi- fications include the development of a water-cooled enclosure for subma-

November, 1991 9 rines and a new helicopter enclo- sure. Other modifications include the development of new circuit card modules, custom integrated circuits (ASICs), and additional software development.

Built to the Navy's Standard Elec- tronic Module Format E (SEM E) specifications, the EMSP is being tailored to user needs under the

Acoustics Systems Integration Pro- gram (ASIP) to further enhance antisubmarine capabilities of Navy submarines, helicopters and surface ships.

Long a Navy standard, the EMSP, built by AT&T to support a fleet- wide upgrade of ASW systems, will give the Navy a much needed edge in locating submarines that are in- creasingly quiet and therefore diffi- cult to detect.

The new EMSP contract will be managed at AT&T Federal Systems'

Guilford Center facility near Greens- boro, N.C., with design and engi- neering support from AT&T Bell

Laboratories in Whippany, N.J.

Electric Boat Receives $3.2 Million Contract

For Submarine Work

The Electric Boat Division of Gen- eral Dynamics, Groton, Conn., has received a $3,252,117 contract to perform all efforts to prepare for the maintenance, repair, alterations, testing and routine work on the Los

Angeles Class attack submarine

USS Dallas (SSN-700).

Would You Believe It?

A steel ship coming out of a compact disk.

It's a fact—an industry first—the ABS Rules for

Building and Classing Steel Vessels, including its entire 2000 pages of text, diagrams, charts and formulas, is now available on CD-ROM (Compact Disk-Read Only Memory). Users of the 1991 ABS "Steel Rules" on CD-ROM will have the benefit of: • Rapid Review of Rule Requirements. • Increased Design Productivity. • Instant Cross Reference through "hot links" feature. • Quick access to in depth Data Base. • Easy method to locate answers.

You have got to see this.

Call or write to ABS for additional information.

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Besides indicating the actual position on a sea chart, the

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NAUT0TRACK and optionally a Nautical Information Display, the function of a track control system.

Modern sea-going ships, such as the "Ship of the Future" utilize this technological advance.

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