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WORKBOAT ANNUAL

Business Booms At

Bollinger

Bollinger Shipyards, Inc. (BSI) subsidiary Bollinger Quick Repair (BQR) will perform a $2 million conversion project on 211 ft. (64 m) offshore supply vessel Queen

Supplier, leased to BJ Services by owner AS Supply Service. The main objective of the conversion is to build a stimulation plant on the vessel. The installation of oil field equipment, related materials installation and all labor involved in the project is being handled at

BQR. In addition, BQR also installed a new central piping sys- tem below deck for pumping fluids and an independent electrical power system.

BSI is now undergoing a $3.5 million expansion project to its

Lockport new construction facility.

The panel line project has report- edly increased production capacity by 25 percent, allowing multiple preparation and fabrication of steel for the new vessels.

A Little Help From Uncle Sam

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) has awarded an option for six addi- tional coastal patrol boats to

Bollinger. The contract has a total value of $24.1 million and is for the

USCG cutters with the associated spare parts and logistic support.

Referred to as the Low Rate of

Initial Production, the award starts the second phase of a con- tract which could result in more than 50 vessels being purchased from Bollinger. The first vessel, which was awarded in May 1996, will be delivered in February 1998, and the first vessel awarded on the option will be delivered in May 1998, to be followed by the remain- ing five over a six week period.

The coastal patrol boat is an 87- ft. (27-m) vessel carrying a crew of 10 and berthing for 11. The craft will have a top speed of 25 knots and will perform patrols up to 200 miles offshore. As the class will be named after different marine species, the first two will be named

Barracuda and Hammerhead, respectively. If all 50 vessels of the class are awarded to Bollinger, the contract will have an ultimate value of $200 million and will run into the next century.

In addition, BSI recently launched the first of a possible six barge derricks (BDs) to be built for the U.S. Army. Construction will take place at Bollinger's new con- struction facility in Lockport, La., and if all options are awarded the contract could last up to seven years. The first vessel is scheduled for delivery in May 1998. "We have had the privilege of working with the U.S. government for the past 10 years, but this is

BSI's first contract with the U.S.

Army," said Chris Bollinger, vice president and Program manager.

He added that construction on the second BD is scheduled for later this year.

Bollinger's new design for the 200 x 78 x 16-ft. (61 x 24 x 49-m)

BDs includes increased pedestal bearing size and crane capacity to meet Army needs, according to Mr.

Bollinger. The new vessels will each feature a 115 long ton crane manufactured by Amclyde

Engineering Products. "Increasing the crane size accom- plishes the Army's goal of lifting main battle tanks from a ship that

Pictured is the launching of a Bollinger barge derrick. is not self-sustaining, or does not have its own crane," said James

Welling, combat developer with the U.S. Army Combines Arms

Support Command (CASCOM). "The U.S. Army's mission is to pro- vide sustainment for a variety of objectives, which this improved barge derrick will assist us in doing."

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Halter Delivers

First Of Four To

Seacor

Halter Marine Group has deliv- ered 225 ft. (69 m), 12,280 hp anchor handling/towing supply (AHTS) vessel Seacor Vision to

Seacor Smit, Inc. The vessel is the first in a series of four contracted by Seacor to Halter and designed to meet requirements for deepwa- ter service in the Gulf of Mexico and the worldwide market. "This is a truly contemporary international workboat with a modern anchor handling system, a thoughtful layout to meet the needs of improved safe working conditions and accommodations to provide crew comfort, advanced position/station keeping systems that include stern and bowthrusters, dynamic positioning and enlarged cargo capacities. It represents a leap forward from the 1980s Gulf of Mexico-style vessels to an international design," said

John Dane III, Halter chairman, president and CEO.

The all-steel vessel measures 225 x 52 x 22 ft. (69 x 16 x 6.7 m) and features a loaded draft of 18.7 ft. (5.7 m) and a light draft of 11.7 ft. (3.3 m). Seacor Vision meets

SOLAS requirements, as well as the new U.S. Coast Guard sub- chapter L requirements.

At 12,280 hp, Seacor Vision is reportedly Halter's most powerful

AHTS built to-date. The new ves- sel features four General Motors

EMD 16-645-E7B diesel engines driving through Reintjes com- pound reverse/reduction gears.

Berg 140 in., four-blade control- lable pitch propellers in Kort noz- zles propel the vessel, and maneu- verability is aided by two 600 bhp,

DC motor driving bowthrusters and one 600 bhp, DC stern- thruster. Anchor handling and towing is provided by a Smatco 116

EAW 660 double drum waterfall 850 hp DC electric winch with a 660,000 lb. line pull. Each drum can hold 7,900 ft. (2,408 m) of three-in. wire rope.

Other towing and anchor han- dling equipment includes two retractable Triplex shark jaws chain stoppers with a capacity of 350 tons each, two retractable

Triplex towing pins, an 8 x 12 ft. (2.4 x 3.6 m) stern roller, two 45,000 lb. capacity tugger winches and two wire storage reels, each with a capacity of 8,000 ft. (2,438 m) of 3.25-in. wire rope.

Additional deck equipment includes two 10,000 lb. capstans, an anchor windlass and a five-ton capacity crane. The 127 x 41-ft. (39 x 12.5-m) aft deck can accom- modate up to 1,200 long tons of cargo. Below deck, Seacor Vision is capable of carrying 8,000 cu. ft. of dry drilling mud in tanks built into machinery spaces.

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