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VESSELS

Bouchard Transportation Celebrates Two New Vessels launched at VT Halter’s Pascagoula Operations in Pas- cagoula, Mississippi, on November 20, 2015. The tug,

Donna J. Bouchard, was launched at VT Halter’s Moss

Point Marine facility in Escatawpa, Mississippi, on Sep- tember 15, 2015, and is named after the sister of Morton

S. Bouchard III, President/CEO of Bouchard Transporta- tion Co., Inc. Constructed independently of each other, and now paired, the M/V Donna J. Bouchard and B. No. 272 are now classi? ed alongside the Kim. M Bouchard & B. No. 270 as the largest vessels to date in Bouchard’s

Bouchard Transportation Co. recently celebrated the ongoing ? eet expansion program. These are the second of naming of the M/V Donna J. Bouchard and the B. No. two Articulated Tug Barge (ATB) units constructed by VT 272 in New Orleans, LA. The barge, B. No. 272, was Halter Marine, Inc. (VT Halter Marine).

B. No. 272 at a glance Donna J. Bouchard at a glance …

LOA: 628 feet Capacity: 255,000 barrels Horsepower: 10,000hp Class: ABS

Beam: 91 feet Class: ABS Propulsion: Twin Screw Service: Subchapter M

Depth: 47 feet Flag: U.S. (Jones Act) Built: VT Halter Coupling: Intercon

RAL-Designed Versatile Tug for Port of Toronto

When the Port of Toronto’s 45-year-old single screw tug,

William Rest, got some hull damage while breaking ice, the incident lent new impetus to plans for a new boat. Like the original, the new boat would do a variety of tasks from tending to dredging, and icebreaking as well as assisting the Toronto Police and Toronto Fire Service marine units.

While the older boat was not designed to break ice, the new one will have ice-breaking capabilities. With an overall may reach the 54-inch (1.35-meter) ? ve-blade propeller, length of 19.8 meters and, as a single screw tug, a beam it has been designed with the extra blade thickness carried of only 6.4 meters the design had to accomplish a variety out to the tips for additional strength. The single engine of tasks. Robert Allan harbor tugs have a distinctive stern propulsion for the new tug will be an inline six-cylinder shape that gives then good performance in reverse. Howev- Tier 3 rated Cummins QSK19-M producing 750 HP pro- er that same taper could force ice to go under the hull and viding six-tons of bollard pull. The tug, named in a com- possibly damage the rudder. To prevent this, an “ice knife” petition by Toronto school children, Iron Guppy will carry has been added midships below the transom. This will ef- the distinctive Robert Allan style wheelhouse structure that fectively cut any ice and push it to either side. As some ice has been proven to provide excellent 360-degree visibility.

Willard Marine’s Twin Diesel RIB ifornia has a long history of conventional hulls and RIBs.

They currently produce a variety of models and sizes of RIBs from 4.9-meters up to 11.07. As are all the ? rm’s RIBs, the

SEA FORCE 1100 is available with either ? berglass or alu- minum deep-V hulls. Primarily designed for the US Navy,

Rigid hulled in? atable boats (RIBs) have come a long way the Sea Force 1100 has been internationally marketed and since their initial development in the United Kingdom in is also available for civilian uses such as whale watching or the late 1960s. Long noted for their stability and safety in local tours. Designated “Landing Platform Dock (LPD-17 turbulent seas, they have found applications in rescue work Class), LCS” by the US Navy, the RIB can be ordered with and military settings. Willard Marine, Inc. of Anaheim, Cal- enclosed cabins or other superstructure modi? cations.

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