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Passenger vessels — specifically offshore casi- no boats — continue to be a source of revenue for Boothbay, Maine-based Washburn &

Doughty (W&D), evidenced by the com- pany's recent contract for another of this type. This will be the seventh vessel cur- rently under construction at the yard.

The new vessel, for Florida-based Lara

Cruises Inc., will measure 155 x 36-ft. (47 x 11-m). It was designed in-house at

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The engines will be fitted to ZF Model 191-1 reduction gears with a 4.5:1 gear ratio.

Detyens Shipyards Inc. has quietly transformed the former navy yard in

Charleston, S.C., to a viable commercial facility. The yard now has facilities, equipment and deepwater access to pro- vide services to ships of up to 740 ft. (225.5 m). Detyens has two additional locations which conduct all phases of ship repair.

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Co. (NASSCO) was chosen to create a new design for a million barrel capacity, double huli tanker for British Petroleum. The design devel- opment phase will be a joint project with BP and Maritime Overseas Corp. In the last 12 months NASSCO has been busy otherwise, signing contracts to build two additional Sealift ships (bringing the total to six), laying the keel for the second Sealift ship, and delivering the second Sealift conversion. In the near future, the San Diego-based yard will launch the first

Sealift ship and deliver the third Sealift con- version. NASSCO has also completed facility improvements, including: installation of a transverse deck beam line, a box girder line, a new turning center lathe in the Machine Shop.

Seattle-based Kvichak Marine recently delivered a 30-ft. (9.1-m), multi-purpose boom barge to Clean Rivers cooperative of Portland,

Ore. The all-aluminum, shallow-water barge was designed to interlock with eight existing barges operated by Clean Rivers. For Clean

Sound Cooperative, Kvichak delivered a 36-ft. (11-m) oil spill response vessel. The new boat is the fortieth vessel in the Edmonds, Wash.- based fleet stationed throughout Puget Sound.

This boat is an enhanced version of Kvichak's 32-ft. (10-m) rapid response vessel, and fea- tures two engines, a bowthruster and indepen- dent hydraulics for oil recovery and anchor han- dling systems. The all-aluminum boats have an 11.8-ft. (3.6-m) beam and a nominal draft of 1.7 ft. (.5 m).

Marco Shipyard, also of Seattle, has been awarded a contract to build a 90-ft. (27.4-m), 149-passenger classroom vessel for the Marine

Science Institute in Redwood City, Calif. When delivered later this year, the new boat will replace Inland Seas, a WW II-vintage wooden

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Alabama Shipyard, Inc ...32

Avondale Industries ...33

Brown Marine Service Inc. ... ...34

Detyens Shipyards Inc ...36

Eastern Shipbuilding Group .. ...37

Elliott Bay Design Group ... 38

Gulf Cooper Manufacturing ... .. .39

Halter Marine Group .. .40

HAM Marine .. .41

Houma Marine Fabricators ... ...42

Ingalls Shipbuilding .. .43

Kvichak .. .44 .. .45

NASSCO .. .46

Nichols Brothers Boat Builders . ...47

North Florida Shipyard .. .48

Service Marine Industries .... ...49

Washburn & Doughty ...50

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