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IMMEDIATE

ONE TO FIVE YEARS

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The Beaugrand-Fisher Group, Inc.

REALTORS FOR AMERICA'S FOREMOST CORPORATIONS 200 PARK AVENUE, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10017

CABLE: BEAUFISH, N.Y. 212/661-5549

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

The vessels are each equipped with 40-ton electric towing and barge connector winches manufactured by Beebe Bros. The winches are controlled by remote control from the pilot- house, or manually on deck.

Construction of the towboats is of steel, transversely framed and with double chines.

Thickness of plating for the deck and side is jMs-inch, of headlog is -Hs-inch, of corners is 1- inch, and of bottom is 3/2-inch and ^-inch.

The vessels are also equipped with Konel

KR33BB and KR 150 radios, Decca RM916 radar, intercom systems, two each 14-inch car- bon arc Carlisle Finch searchlights, and one each Kahlenberg T-l horn with whistle light.

Halter Marine shipbuilding facilities are in

New Orleans, La.; Moss Point, Miss., and

Lockport, La.

Warrior & Gulf Navigation Company is headquartered in Mobile, Ala., and operates towboats on the Warrior and Tombigbee river system in Alabama and on the Gulf Intra- coastal Waterway.

HUGE OBO FROM SUMITOMO: Sumitomo Shipbuilding & Machinery Co., Ltd., recently delivered the M/V Avon

Bridge, a 1 42,000-dwt ore/bulk/oil carrier, from its Ura- ga Shipbuilding Yard in Yokosuka, to H. Clarkson and

Company Limited of the United Kingdom. The new vessel measures approximately, 846 feet in length, 1 44 feet in breadth (molded), and 80 feet in depth (molded), and carries Lloyd's UMS (Unattended Machinery Space) qual- ification. She is powered by a Sumitomo-Sulzer Diesel

Engine 10 RND 90 MCR 29,000 bhp at 122 rpm, providing a service speed of 15.55 knots. Besides this

Avon Bridge, Sumitomo Shipbuilding & Machinery Co.,

Ltd., has orders for three OBO carriers, totaling about 430,000-dwt, from the Seabridge Group.

Halter Marine Services

Delivers Three New Towboats

To Warrior & Gulf Navigation

The hull configuration of the Tombigbee, shown above, and her sister towboats is of special design to insure optimum maneuverability on the rivers of Alabama.

Three new and identical river towboats have been built and delivered by Halter Marine

Services, Inc., New Orleans, La., to the War- rior & Gulf Navigation Company, Mobile, Ala.

The new vessels are the Alabama, Tombigbee, and Muskogee. They are in operation on the

Warrior-Tombigbee rivers system and Gulf

Intracoastal Waterway of Alabama.

Each new towboat is powered by two Gen- eral Motors 16149NA diesel engines with 7:1

Twin Disc MG540 reduction gear. Two 4-blade stainless steel 80-inch-diameter propellers of special design to permit efficient and full absorption of horsepower in astern, as well as ahead conditions, turn on 7>4-inch-diameter forged steel propeller shafts with Damon

Ceramalloy liners. The towboats are each equipped with hydraulic steering with full fol- low-up for two steering and four flanking rud- ders manufactured by Skipper, Inc.

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Iman BARGE & CONSTRUCTION CO.

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