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Anvil Forms Subsidiary

Mississippi Boat And Iron

To Build River Barges

Anvil Industries, Inc., Brecksville, Ohio, has announced the formation of a new subsidiary for the manufacture of river barges and the custom fabrication of steel for the marine in- dustry. R.D. Ashman Jr., Anvil president, said production facilities are located in Gulfport,

Miss., and will be operated by Mississippi Boat and Iron Works, Inc., wholly-owned by Anvil.

Construction has begun on a 40,000-square- foot facility located on 23 acres in the Bayou

Bernard Industrial Park on Gulfport Lake.

Anvil's initial investment is about $500,000.

Mississippi Boat and Iron will operate as an affiliate of Yaun Manufacturing Co.. Inc.. of

Baton Rouge, La., another Anvil subsidiary.

Huey Yaun, president of Yaun Manufacturing, will serve as president of Mississippi Boat and

Iron. Yaun Manufacturing builds rugged, heavy steel machinery for dredging, digging, and materials handling. "Our inland and intracoastal waterways have tremendous untapped potential for mov- ing cargo," Mr. Ashman said. "Our barges and other marine products will be built to meet the burgeoning demand for vessels."

The Anvil group of industries concentrates primarily in the fabricating and forging of steel. Among the well-known industrial names are Ric-Wil, Inc., supplier of prefabricated in- sulated piping systems; Upson-Walton, wire rope and fittings for marine use and heavy ma- chinery; Cleveland City Forge, forged hard-

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Jeffboat's Largest Towboat

Honors Texas Gas Chairman

The engine room on the Bill Elmer will be equipped with closed circuit television.

The largest river towboat ever built by Jeff- boat, Inc., was launched recently at the firm's yards in Jeffersonville, Ind. The boat's princi- pal dimensions are 180 feet by 52 feet by 11 feet. Powered by three 2,800-hp engines, it is an engineering hybrid of the highly successful 13-boat 5,000-hp series which Jeff boat also de- signed and built, according to R.W. Naye,

Jeffboat president. The largest towboats pre- viously built at Jeffboat were the 6,600-hp J.E.

Alquist and Patrick C. Calhoun, both of the

ACBL fleet.

The boat will be named the Motor Vessel

Bill Elmer to honor W.M. Elmer, chairman and chief executive officer of Texas Gas Trans- mission Corporation, the parent company of

Jeffboat and American Commercial Barge Line

Company, in whose fleet the boat will operate.

The christening will be held on July 16 in

Memphis, Tenn., where three Texas Gas di- visions have extensive operations.

The boat is unusual not only in its size and power, but also in its sophisticated engineer- ing. The vessel will carry a radio-teletype capable of broadcasting instantaneous spot checks to shore on all vital functions of the boat's power system. The engine room will be equipped with closed circuit television, allow- ing the pilothouse to monitor engine room ac- tivity. Other electronic equipment such as radar, radiotelephone. VHF, and single side band radio communications, Fathometer and swing indicator, further increase the boat's high efficiency.

George E. Meese Designing 86-Foot Dredging Vessel —Bid Reguests Set For July

An 86-foot dredging vessel is being designed by George E. Meese, naval architects and marine engineers, 194 Acton Road, Annapolis, Md. 21403. for East Coast Trawling & Dock Co.,

Inc., Providence, R.I.

The vessel is being designed for low cost steel construction. It will be 86 feet in length, with a beam of 25 feet, a depth of 10 feet 6 inches, and a draft of 7 feet 6 inches. The cargo capacitv will be 60 tons. A Cummins VT12 525M diesel engine will be installed for propulsion. Requests for bids are expected around July 1971. 24 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News