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New Ferryboats For Hatteras Inlet

From Coast Engineering Company Design

Nippon Kokan Names

Kiyokatsu Hanita

One of six new ferryboats for service from Hatteras Island to Ocracoke Island recently completed by the New Bern Shipyard for the North Carolina State Highway Commission.

The Coast Engineering Com- pany, Norfolk, Va., announces the completion of six new ferryboats for the North Carolina State High- way Commission.

These ferries are specially de- signed for use at Hatteras Inlet, where the water is rough and the minimum channel depth can vary from 4 feet to 8 feet in one day's time. They provide service from

Hatteras Island to Ocracoke Island on the Outer Banks. Traffic over this route was over 150,000 vehi- cles and 500,000 passengers in 1970.

There is no toll charge on these vessels.

The ferries have the follow- ing particulars: length, 122 feet; breadth (over deck), 40 feet; depth, 8 feet; maximum draft, 3 feet; cruising speed, 11 knots, and ca- pacity, 24 autos, 250 passengers.

The vessels are single-deck triple-screw all-steel ferries pro- pelled from the after end. The hold compartments, with the exception of the engine room, are watertight voids.

The main engines are three Gen- eral Motors Model 6/71 series E, turbo - charged diesel engines, equipped with 3:1 reduction gears driving 38-inch by 28-inch four- blade propellers in tunnels. Elec- tric power is provided by two Del- co 20-kw 120/240-volt generators driven by General Motors Model 2/71 diesel engines.

The steering gear is hydraulic with manual emergency operation.

There is no vibration in the ves- sels at any speed or depth of water.

The vessels were designed and construction supervised by Coast

Engineering Company, design agents for the State Highway

Commission. The builder is New

Bern Shipyards, Inc., New Bern,

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Agattu and the Kiska, 400-feet in length, were built for Crowley at

Gunderson's Portland facility. Gun- derson, Inc. is a subsidiary of

FMC Corporation, San Jose, Calif.

International Red Hand

Appoints C.A. Narwicz

Kiyokatsu Hanita

Kiyokatsu Hanita, executive di- rector of the shipbuilding division of NKK (Nippon Kokan), has been named a senior managing director of the company.

Mr. Hanita was elected to the company's board of directors in

May 1964 and was appointed a managing director in May 1967. In addition to responsibility for the shipbuilding division, he super- vises the firm's London and Hong

Kong offices, which are primarily engaged in shipbuilding business.

He is also in charge of NKK's ma- chinery and materials purchasing department.

Joining NKK in August 1958,

Mr. Hanita was appointed assist- ant general yard manager of Tsu- rumi Shipyard, near Tokyo, in

February 1960, general manager of the company's shipbuilding busi- ness department in December 1961, and general manager of the ship- building department in March 1964.

Mr. Hanita graduated from the engineering department at Tokyo

Imperial University, presently To- kyo University, in March 1935.

Gunderson To Build 160,000-Bbl. Oil Barge

For Crowley Launch

An order for a 160,000-barrel- capacity multi-purpose oil barge, the largest to be built in Portland,

Ore., has been placed with Gun- derson, Inc., according to William

R. Galbraith, vice president for sales of the Portland firm. The giant vessel, to be known as Barge 103, will measure 430 feet by 80 feet by 27 feet. It will be used for multiple petroleum product service by the owners, Crowley

Launch and Tugboat Company of

San Francisco.

Altogether, 2,850 tons of steel and 115,000 man hours of labor will be involved in the fabrication of the tank barge, Mr. Galbraith stated. The keel was laid late last month, and the barge will be ready for launching June 1 of this year.

Mr. Galbraith pointed out that the lower wage structure of yards in the Gulf area resulted in highly competitive bidding for the job.

The effect of bringing the order to Portland will be the substantial re-employment of the labor force at Gunderson, Inc.

Fabrication of ocean - rated barges by Gunderson, Inc., for the

San Francisco-based firm began in 1968. In 1970 twin barges, the

Charles A. Narwicz

International Red Hand Marine

Coatings' president, Thomas M.

Reinhardt, has announced the ap- pointment of Charles A. Narwicz as assistant East Coast sales mana- ger of the company.

Mr. Reinhardt said that Mr. Nar- wicz would work with the Inter- national Red Hand sales and serv- ice team in helping to meet new requirements of today's shipown- ers for coatings that insure the kind of corrosion protection and hull resistance necessary with to- day's modern developments, such as fast turnaround in port and the extended period between dry- dockings.

Mr. Narwicz brings with him over 20 years of experience in ma- rine transportation systems, in- cluding operation, design, manu- facture and marketing. He has recently served as project manager in a study for the U.S. Maritime

Administration on the manning of merchant ships. He is past chair- man of the New York Section of

SNAME, and is a member of its application committee and relia- bility-maintainability-panel.

He is a past vice president of the U.S. Merchant Marine Acad- emy Alumni Association and a member of the American Society of Naval Engineers. Mr. Narwicz is also a commander in the Naval

Reserve, and a member of The

Propeller Club and The Hague

Post of the American Legion.

FOR CUNARD HELP: Copt. F.L. Slattery,

USN, Commander of the U.S. Naval Ocean- ographic Office, is shown above presenting a Naval Oceanographic Office plaque to

C.S. Dickson, vice president of the Cunard

Steamship Lines, at New York City, in a expression of official appreciation to the

Cunard Lines for helping the ocean chart- ing and research agency "amass a unique body of information" of the Gulf Stream and its related eddies, meanders, and coun- tercurrents. 22 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News