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Night or Day Telephone: 201-826-5000 Founded 1887 WESTINGHOUSE TURBINE RENEWAL PARTS IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT ANYWHERE Authorized Marine distributor for Westinghouse Turbine Renewal Parts, Port Electric maintains a complete stock of replacement parts in its own warehouse for immediate delivery. Authorized Marine Distributors for: Westinghouse: Turbine, Controller and Motor Renewal Parts Cutler-Hammer: Controller Parts Clark: Controller Parts Also available: Replacement Parts for Monitor. Reliance. Crocker Wheeler, and others. PORT ELECTRIC Turbine Division OF PORT ELECTRIC SUPPLY CORP. 155-157 Perry Street, New York, N. Y. 10014 Call (212) 255-4530 SHIP SERVICE OUR SPECIALTY Avondale Orders Control Units For LASH Ships And Tankers From Technical Associates According to Melvin Goldstein, president of Technical Associates of New Orleans, the electronics firm has been awarded a series of contracts in excess of $1.4-million by Avondale Shipyards for the LASH ships and for the supertankers presently under construction. Eleven LASH (lighter aboard ship) vessels are being built, five of which are for Prudential Steamship Lines and six for Pacific Far East Lines. The five supertankers are for the Hum-ble Oil and Refining Company. Technical Associates will design and fabri-cate the barge control loudspeaker system and the centralized instrument and control consoles for the LASH ships. The former is a unique requirement to be used for extended loading and unloading of barges onto or from the ship. A loudspeaker system, consisting of two bays of loudspeakers designed to meet en-vironmental requirements of shipboard use, is installed as well as two high-powered address amplifiers. To facilitate the degree of mobility necessary for directing the barge operation. Technical Associates will design a wireless microphone system. With this system the loading foreman can call to the barge below and direct its movements by means of push buttons. The centralized instrumentation and control console consists of three control consoles per ship along with the necessary instrumentation. A bell logger, located on the bridge, is made up of an electronic device with a selectric typewriter and all of the equipment necessary to print out the engine order log from the engine order telegraph and throttle control system. It also contains an analog-to-digital converter. Should the shaft revolutions change, it automatically triggers the bell logger. The typewriter automatically prints out every four hours. The central machine panel, located in the engine room, is approximately 20 feet in length. This panel console contains all of the various power supplies, metering displays and controls, annunciator system, throttle control system?which amounts to a small analog computer?-temperature alarm set points units, and so forth. The bridge console system is composed of the bridge navigational console, the bridge steering console and the bridge propulsion console. This system contains all of the navi-gational equipment, depth recorder, general alarm contact maker, navigational light con-trols, internal telephone and communication equipment, propulsion controls, and many others. On the Humble 76,000-dwt tankers Techni-cal Associates will design and fabricate both the cargo control console and the electrical test panel for all three vessels. The control console is 16 feet in length, 7 feet in height and weighs some 3,000 pounds. It contains approximately two miles of wiring. Located in the cargo control room, it over-looks the weather deck where all of the cargo valves are located. Each of these consoles completely controls and displays the position of the more than 100 valves on each ship, the cargo pumps and the tanks. The electrical test panel, located in the electricians' shop, is used to test all of the lamps used aboard ship. NASHVILLE BRIDGE COMPANY P.O. Box 239 Nashville, Tennessee Otl-r profit-proven products include: ? Deck Hordware ? Hose Cranes ? 40-Ton Winch ? Bow Steering Units ? Flush Mounted-Watertight Hatches EAST COAST REPRESENTATIVE: Smith-Meeker Engineering Co., 157 Chambers St., New York CHv 12 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News Deck Fittings by Nabrico Nashville Bridge Company has pioneered in the water transport industry for fifty years. In that time, many of their innovations have become standard equipment on the rivers. For example, the Nabrico 40-ton winch, with 20 times faster take up than a ratchet, is available in a broad range of power options... manual, electric, hydraulic or air. It's made in true right and left hand arrangements. The Nabrico flush hatch cover has no projections to foul lines or trip deck hands. It secures watertight without tools and is approved by American Bureau of Shipping. In addition, Nabrico builds hose cranes, locking pins and sockets, bitts, chocks, kevels and bow steering units. Write for complete catalog and price list of Nabrico deck fittings and hardware.