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Manitowoc, Kvichak Team for USCG Boats

The Manitowoc Company, Inc. and its subsidiary, Marinette Marine

Corporation, will partner with Kvichak

Marine Industries, Inc. to develop and construct a prototype Response Boat

Medium (RB-M) for the U.S. Coast

Guard. Kvichak. located in Seattle with full-service waterfront facilities, will build the prototype RB-M. Using a design developed by Camarc, Ltd.,

Marinette Marine will serve as the prime contractor and program manager for the project - a $2.5-million test boat expect- ed in late 2003.

The Marinette/Kvichak team, along with two other contractors, will each build a RB-M test boat as part of the competitive process. After evaluating each prototype vessel, conducting exten- sive sea trials, and reviewing competi- tive proposals from the shipyards, the

Coast Guard intends to award a contract for a fleet of approximately 180 RB-M vessels to replace its aging fleet of 41-ft.

Utility Boats. The six-year contract is expected to be awarded in 2004.

Marinette and Kvichak will share vessel construction if awarded the production contract.

The new vessel fleet, which will per- form missions such as homeland securi- ty and search-and-rescue operations, will exceed speeds up to 40 knots. The upgraded fleet will be safer, more effi- cient, and more cost-effective for the

Coast Guard to operate and maintain due to standardized systems, improved maintenance, and logistics support capa- bilities.

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Northrop Grumman

Commissions USS Mustin

The U.S. Navy commissioned the

Aegis guided missile destroyer USS

Mustin (DDG 89) in a twilight ceremo- ny on July 26, 2003, at Naval Air Station

North Island.

Known as the 18th Arleigh Burke- class Aegis guided missile destroyer built by Northrop Grumman

Corporation's Ship Systems sector in

Pascagoula, Miss, the new destroyer is named for the Mustin family, whose

August 2003 naval tradition spans four generations and nearly a century of service.

Sponsors for USS Mustin are Lucy

Holcomb Mustin, wife of ship's co- namesake retired Navy Vice Adm.

Henry C. Mustin. II; Jean Phillips

Mustin. wife of ship's co-namesake retired Navy Lt. Cmdr. Thomas M.

Differential Pressure

Gauge For Seawater

Applications

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Benefits Include: £ • Range: 0-5 PSID thru 0-100 PSID (0.3 bar to 7.0 bar) • Accuracy + 5% full scale ascending • Weather resistant construction standard • Working pressure 5000 P.S.I.G. (340 bar)

Mustin: Douglas Mustin St. Denis, sis- ter of Henry C. Mustin, II and Thomas

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Cmdr. Ann Phillips of Annapolis,

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Squadron One in the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

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Sprayed Insulation Tested

Eric Greene Associates, Inc. was awarded a 9-month. S65.000 contract from the U.S. Maritime Administration to investigate spray-applied insulation systems for marine transportation. The work is being performed for the Ship

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Over-range protection to rated working pressure

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