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3 floating drydocks • to 18,000 tons

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Stern Trawler Bids

To Be Opened Aug. 11

Bids for the construction of from one to three steel stern trawlers will be opened by North Atlantic Ma- rine Enterprises, Atlantic City, N.J., on August 11.

The 725-hp vessels will each meas- ure 95 feet 8 inches in length, with a beam of 24 feet.

Teledyne Sewart And

Swiftships To Build

Patrol Boat For NSSC

RFP N00024-71-R-0619 has been issued to Teledyne Sewart Seacraft,

Inc., Berwick, La., and Swiftships,

Inc., Morgan City, La. 70380 by the

Naval Ship Systems Command,

Washington, D.C., for the construc- tion of an aluminum patrol boat. The vessel will measure 85 feet.

Requests are being made by NSSC for technical proposals concerning the design and construction of two oceanographic research ships for FY '71 (Reference IFB N00024-71-R- 0526).

Bel-Aire Shipyard Ltd.

To Build Two 184-Foot

Oil Supply Vessels

Two large oil supply vessels are to be built by Bel-Aire Shipyard,

Ltd., North Vancouver, British Co- lumbia, for Nordic Offshore Serv- ices, Ltd. The measurements of each vessel will be 184 feet by 45 feet by 16 feet 6 inches. They will be equip- ped with twin English Electric die- sels supplying 5,280 bhp.

Norfolk Shipbuilding

Wins NSSC Contract

The Naval Ship Systems Com- mand, Washington, D.C., has award- ed a contract in the amount of $5,- 900,000 to Norfolk Shipbuilding &

Drydock Corp. for the construction of a F-PF-108 class patrol escort ship.

The vessel, which is destined for the Thailand Government, will meas- ure 275 feet.

Barge Awards To

Missouri Valley Steel

And Brown-Minneapolis

The Corps of Engineers, Philadel- phia, Pa., has awarded a $476,220 contract to build three steel oil barges to Missouri Valley Steel, Inc., Leav- enworth, Kan., and a contract for building deck barges at a cost of $145,938 to Brown-Minneapolis Tank and Fabricating Co., St. Paul, Minn.

The Coolidge Propeller Company, organized in 1910, has through sixty years of continuous service designed and produced quality propellers for every application.

The development of special patented production equipment and measuring devices, designed solely for marine propellers, together with constant research in both engineering and materials, have made Coolidge Propellers the accepted standard worldwide.

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ESTABLISHED 1939

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