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Blount/Barker Delivers Buchanan Tug

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IMAGINE A MEETING where the monuments outside the windows inspire milestones within.

Where both the service and the technology make for spectacularly enlightening moments.

And flexible meeting rooms host international galas for 500 or intimate gatherings for five with equal ease. Can you imagine it? WE DID.

A new 85-ft. (25.9-m) tug, Mister T built by

Blount/Barker Ship- building was delivered to its port of New York City on December 11.

The vessel, which will be used for harbor and ocean towing of bulk material barges, is a 2,400 hp twin screw tug powered by two Cat 3512 engines; 4:1 twin gears and two kW gener- ators will supply ships service power.

The tug is keel-cooled and equipped with two four-blade propellers measur- ing 78 in. in diameter, and is also equipped with two pushing winches and a 100,000 lb. Almond Johnson towing machine. The construction of this vessel was based on the classic Blount design of the tugs Pathfinder and Usher built in 1969; the hull and superstructure was modified by Bristol Harbor Group uti- lizing CNC cutting technology for lofting and cutting.

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Main Particulars

Builder Blount Barker Shipbuilding, LLC

Naval Architect Bristol Harbor Marine Design

Operator Buchanan Marine, New Haven, CT

Length 85 ft. 3in. (26 m)

Beam 24 ft. (7.3 m)

Depth 11 ft. 9 in. (3

Design Draft 9 ft.

Air Draft 26 ft.

Crew Quarters 4 Double bunks

Tank Capacities

Fuel Oil 20,000 gal.

Freshwater 4,000 gal.

Ballast 4,000 gal.

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LINE BORING OF MAIN

BEARING POCKETS

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Repair of cracked or broken cast iron engine blocks