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News

Galtex Pilots Order

New Jet Boat 1 JSW \\ z newly completed 123-ft. patrol boat,

USCGC Matagorda, manufactured by

HBJV. a joint venture of Bollinger

Shipyards LLC and VT Halter Marine,

Inc of Gulfport, Miss. HBJV is a sub- contractor to Northrop Grumman Ships

Systems sector, a partner in Integrated

Coast Guard Systems (1CGS), a joint venture of Northrop Grumman and

Lockheed Martin.

M/T Area Double Hulled

The V. Ships-managed, and Shell

Canada-owned bunker barge M/T Area, which operates in Montreal harbor sup- plying bunker oil to other vessels, is cur- rently in the Verreault drydock for con- version to a double-hull vessel.

The process, which will take about three months to complete, comes in advance of proposed legislation that will likely demand that all Canadian oil tankers have a second hull.

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Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding started construction on its first water-jet-pro- pelled pilot boat for the Galtex pilots in

Galveston, Texas. Delivery is planned for March 2005. The Galtex pilots chose waterjets to avoid costly repairs to pro- pellers and shafts from debris in

Galveston harbor, particularly at high speeds, and enjoy improved maneuver- ability and safety during boarding and pilot rescues, said Peter Duclos, ship- yard president. Designed by C.

Raymond Hunt Associates of Boston, with its continually-evolving deep-V hull the all-aluminum vessel measures 70 ft. overall, with a 21-ft. beam and a 3.9-ft. draft. Powered by twin

Cummins KTA38-M2 diesel engines, each producing a conservative 1,300 bhp at 1,800 rpm, the boats will be driv- en by Hamilton HM 571 water jets.

Each engine will turn a remote-mounted

Reinjtes WVS 430/1 gearbox. Top speed is expected to reach 30 knots. The engines feature Cummins' Centinel oil lube management systems, which con- tinually add fresh oil to replace oil burned through the fuel system. The

Centinel systems combined with the

Eliminator oil lube filtering systems lengthen oil change intervals to more than 4,000 operating hours, said Duclos.

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First 123-ft Deepwater

System Cutter Delivered

The first Deepwater surface asset under the Integrated Deepwater System was recently delivered, with U.S. Coast

Guard Commandant Adm. Thomas H.

Collins accepting delivery of the vessel and returning the CG Ensign to the

USCG Cutter Matagorda at Bollinger

Shipyards, in Lockport, La. The cere- mony celebrated the delivery of the first

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