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Peterson Sole Bidder On NSSC Tug Contract Peterson Builders, Inc., Sturgeon Bay, Wis., was alone in submitting a bid on December 2 to the Naval Ship Systems Command, Washing-ton, D.C., for the construction of six large harbor tugs, YTB-760 class, with a total price of $5,083,-500. The bid was submitted under IFB N00024-69-B-0538. Glendale Boat To Build Twin-Screw Towboat Glendale Boat Works of Greens Bayou, Texas, has received a con-tract for the construction of a twin-screw towboat from undisclosed in-terests. This vessel will be power-ed with 900-total-bhp diesels and will have the following dimensions : 60 feet by 20 feet by 9 feet. Sewart Seacraft Bid For Lobstering Boat Accepted By MarAd A bid of $122,689 for the con-struction of a welded aluminum lobstering and crab fishboat for Ni-cholas Rosa of Brooklyn, N.Y., has been reported as acceptable by the Maritime Administration. The bid, the lowest received, was made by Sewart Seacraft Division of Tele-dvne, Inc. of Berwick. La. According to James Gulick, act-ing maritime administrator, $71,000 was estimated as the cost of con-structing the ship in Japan, the representative low cost shipbuild-ing center. The government will make up the difference of $51,689. The ship will be subsidized through the Department of the Interior. Mitsui Awarded Second 215,000-Dwt Tanker By British Petroleum British Petroleum Ltd. recently announced that it has ordered another 215,000-dwt tanker from Mitsui Shipbuilding & Engineering Co., Ltd. in Japan. According to BP, this brings to nine the total of this class of ship now on order for the BP group. In addition to the two on order with Mitsui, the company has four on order with Mitsubishi Heavy In-dustries, one with the Kawasaki Dockyard, and two 240,000-ton tank-ers with the Chantier Navals de la Ciotat. The vessels are to be used mostly for crude oil trade with Japan, which is expected to involve total sales of more than six-million tons over a three vear period, according to BP. This is just one of many ratchets made by Patterson specifically to the require-ments of container carriers. One of them will suit you, too! All Patterson container lashing ratch-ets have the strength, speed, facility and safety to answer your tie-down problems or fit your practice. Write for the new Patterson Containership Lash-ing Catalog. ^ PATTERSON ? W. W. PATTERSON CO., 830 Brocket St.. Pittsburgh, Pa. 15233 ? 412/332-2012 RCil Ask the ratchet maker with the RCA Service Company A Division of RCA Marine Communications and Navigation Equipment Service Bldg. CHIC-225 Camden, N.J. 08101. Or phone (609) 963-8000, ext. PH-311 CONTAINERSHIP KNOW-HOW Fair weather or foul, any month of the year, RCA technicians at every major American port keep marine electronic equipment at peak relia-bility. These specialists in electronic navigation and communications equipment are available year round. Their experience includes fleets and individual craft ranging from tugs to liners. See your port directory for the telephone number of the nearest office. Or request details by writing: MARITIME REPORTER ENGINEERING NEWS* No. 2 Volume 31 107 EAST 31st STREET NEW YORK, N.Y. 10016 MUrray Hill 9-3266, 3267, 3268, 3269 ESTABLISHED 1939 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News is published the 1 st and 15th of each month by Maritime Activity Reports, Inc., with executive, advertising and editorial offices at 107 East 31st Street, New York, N. Y. 10016; publishing office at 41 First Street, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030 Controlled Circulation postage paid at Hoboken, New Jersey 07030 Member Business Publications Audit of Circulation, Inc. 4 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News