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M/V New Shoreham Launched

At Blount Marine Corporation —Sister Ship To Mount Hope

Blount Marine Corporation, Warren, R.I., has launched the 122-foot M/V New Shore- ham, which will join her sister ship Mount

Hope in a unique inland cruising service.

The M/V New Shoreham, named after a famous New England steamer, was christened on February 27, 1971 by Miss Julie Blount, the youngest daughter of Luther H. Blount, de- signer and builder of the vessel and president of American Canadian Line, Inc.

The New Shoreham will be attractively out- fitted on all three decks, air-conditioned, and quiet running, with wall-to-wall carpeting. Ca- pacity will be 60 passengers in 30 comfortable two-bed staterooms. Next spring, she will join the 110-foot, 42 passenger Mount Hope in 12- day and 14-day cruises along coastal and in- land waterways from Canada to Florida.

Providing the only such extended American- flag cruising schedules, the New Shoreham will augment "mini-cruise" service inaugurated by the Mount Hope in 1969. To date, the Mount

Hope has carried a total of 2,200 passengers on 60 cruises covering 100,000 nautical miles throughout the rivers, lakes and canals of

North America.

Upon completion of her current winter cruises out of St. Petersburg, Fla., the Mount

Hope will return from Florida via the 1,500- mile Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway in May.

On June 6, she will begin a summer schedule of 12-day cruises through the Hudson River,

Lake Champlain and St. Lawrence River with

Montreal, Quebec and the Saguenay River as alternate destinations.

The New Shoreham will join the service in early 1972, with cruises tentatively scheduled to include the Maine coast, Canada, the Great

Lakes and Florida.

Both vessels are powered with acoustically engineered soft-mounted diesel engines, tun- neled propellers, elevating pilothouse, and oth- er features, permitting the navigation of lim- ited dimension canals and waterways. Passen- ger accommodations include "Vi-sta-View" lounges, swimming platforms and novel re- tractable bow ramps, permitting passengers to step directly onto beaches.

Peter F. Furbush, former Western regional sales manager of Sky Climber, Inc., at Gar- dena, Calif., has been appointed national mer- chandising manager of the manufacturer of powered swing stages and hoists. Succeeding

Mr. Furbush at Gardena headquarters is Don

Tilton, formerly assigned to sales in the Cam- den, N.J. Sky Climber office.

Mr. Furbush, who holds degrees in business administration and marketing from California

State Polytechnic College at Pomona, Calif., will be responsible for advertising, public re- lations, trade shows, product coordination, sales promotion, and related duties. He will report to Boris Ivanofsky, national sales man- ager.

HIGH LEVEL DELIVERY LAUNCHES GIANT JUMBO:

Frank Murphy of New York City (right), vice president, transportation of American Trading and Production Cor- poration, provides personal delivery of $4,100,000 to

L.C. Ackerman, president of Newport News Shipbuilding, a Tenneco company. The progress payment, witnessed by

Gardiner Symonds of Houston, chairman of the board of

Tenneco, is for work on the Baltimore Trader, biggest jumboizing job ever done by the shipyard. The trans- action took place March 5, at the launching of the new 625-foot forebody. Newport News jumboized two other ships for the line, American Trader and Texas Trader.

Baltimore Trader, to be delivered later this year, is being increased from 25,241 to 54,000 deadweight tons. Her length will increase from 575-feet to 800-feet.

Maritime Reporter/Engineering News

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